Leonardo LoCascio Selections (LLS), a Member of The Winebow Group, is Appointed Exclusive U.S. Importer of Il Marroneto
Leonardo LoCascio Selections (LLS), a member of The Winebow Group and America's leading importer of premium Italian wines, has announced that it is the exclusive U.S. importer of Il Marroneto, the highly acclaimed Brunello producer led by owner and winemaker Alessandro Mori. Il Marroneto joins a portfolio that represents more than 50 wineries throu...
Driving like an Italian means living like an Italian – that is, at ease with a certain amount of uncertainty.
Piazza Venezia is not only the very heart of Rome, it is also the very centre of Italy. Literally, all roads in Italy do lead to Rome and are marked by their distance from the Campidoglio and the buzzing piazza beneath it. The piazza isn't as grand as Place de l'Étoile in Paris, but it may be more chaotic. Driving around it, over the slick...
Professional Talk From a Memoirist - May 7, 2016 (Sat) at 2:00
When: May 7, 2016 (Sat) at 2:00Where: Garibaldi-Meucci Museum | 420 Tompkins Avenue | Staten Island, NY 10305Please call the museum for reservations 718-442-1608 Maria Giura will read an excerpt from her memoir-in-progress which explores the tension between accepting her personal calling and the ambivalence she felt towards God and her immigrant I...
AC Milan soccer camp comes to Park Ridge
European soccer giant AC Milan is bringing its official Milan Junior Camp soccer training program to the Chicago area. The program will be hosted by Park Ridge Soccer Club, open to boys and girls of all skill levels between the ages of 6 and 17. The camp will run from June 6 to 10 and June 13 to 17 at a cost of $390 per sesson. At least two coache...
Assemblyman Lupinacci Congratulates Italian-American Award Recipient Rose Pedretti
Assemblyman Chad A. Lupinacci (R,C,I-South Huntington) is proud to announce that Walt Whitman High School senior Rose Pedretti is a winner of the 2016 New York State Conference of Italian-American Legislators Scholarship. Pedretti, a member of the National Honor Society, National Staff Development Council for Academic Growth & Student...
How an Italian Immigrant Rolled Out the Radio Flyer Wagon Across America
It is just a wagon. But with a little imagination, there are no limits to what it can become. Robert Pasin, president and CEO of Radio Flyer, once explained it: "It can be anything the child imagines it to be—it can be a spaceship, a train, a race car, a submarine." That kind of versatility has certainly given the iconic, fire hydrant red...
IAP 18: Tony Reali on faith, food, and fatherhood, Part 2 of 2.
This episode features the second part of our two-part interview with Tony Reali of ESPN's "Around the Horn" (you can listen to part 1 here). In this episode, Reali talks about his faith, including wearing ashes on his show, his diet that has caused some stress for him with his family, and also his thoughts on fatherhood. We also celebrate fathers o...
Italian cinema receives worldwide attention
by Jeannine Guilyard The 13th edition of the Italian Screenings, the only annual marketplace event dedicated solely to Italian productions is underway in Bari, located in Italy's southern region of Puglia. Organized by Istituto Luce Cinecittà, 130 professionals from 30 countries are expected to attend. The purpose is to sell Italian films...
L’eccellenza gastronomica pugliese trionfa negli USA. C’è anche San Giovanni Rotondo
Si è conclusa con successo "La Puglia colora New York", la missione imprenditoriale delle oltre venti imprese pugliesi che hanno partecipato alla 62ma edizione del Fancy Food Show di New York, il più grande evento di food & beverage del Nord America svoltosi presso il Jacob Javits Center della Grande Mela. La missione ha consentito a P...
Review: Scratch Cooking at Agostino’s in New Rochelle
Tucked away in a corner of New Rochelle, Agostino's, an unpretentious neighborhood restaurant, has been serving fine Italian food for more than a decade. Its simple hospitality and scratch regional cooking have attracted not only locals but also boaters and golfers from the marinas and country clubs nearby. They don't make many Italian restaurants...
Volunteers bake thousands of cookies for St. Peter's Italian Bazaar
Thousands of cookies were made fresh Wednesday in Portland. Seven thousand cookies to be exact. Dozens of volunteers at St. Peter's parish hall baked and decorated the cookies to get ready for the 91st St. Peter's Italian Bazaar this weekend. They say they used about 83 dozen eggs and 150 pounds of flour to bake all those Italian...
The Power and Poetry of Italian Church Confessionals
By Jordan G. Teicher The confessional is a special place in any Catholic Church, but in Marcella Hackbardt's series "True Confessionals," it takes on a distinct significance. Centered in their frames and largely shown in churches empty of people, Hackbardt's confessionals strike viewers not as merely one feature among many in the architec...