Loyola Endowed Project: “We’re Halfway There! Help Us Get Over The Top!”
Dreams really do come true. "We're halfway there!" exclaimed Dominic Candeloro, co-chair of the Campaign to Create an Endowed Professorship of Italian American Studies at Loyola University Chicago. "We started formally about a year ago and the first nine months were really challenging, but year-end donations in 2013 brought us within strik...
Michelangelo's Work in Photos at the Museo delle Cappelle Medicee
In occasion of the 450-year anniversary of the death of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Government Department responsible for Florence's Museums, and the Grandi Opere – FMR UTET Editorial Group present Il Potere dello Sguardo ("The Power of a Look,") beginning February 18th. On show in the Tuscan Capital's Museum of Medicean Chapels until March 15th...
Inside the Soul of a Sicilian Poet
By Steven Campo I am the descendent of Sicilians from both my father and mother's side of the family. I grew up in a small town in Louisiana that had a large Sicilian population throughout the 1900's. We were raised to be proud of our Sicilian heritage. Our grandparents spoke English, but often spoke to us in Sicilian. Hearing non...
2014 Cinema Italiano Classico - Movie line-up
Ciao, Amici - This year our Cinema Selection Committee chose three wonderful old movies, all comedies. In selecting these three movies, we wanted to present to our Santa Barbara audience how three famous Italian dramatic actresses actually started out in comic movies. And they are funny, lovely movies! All movies are in Italian with Engli...
Gemellaggio in vista tra Molfetta e Little Ferry in New Jersey dove anche il sindaco è di origine molfettese
By Riccardo Chioni Con una tradizione alle spalle che si tramanda da 88 anni, il Club della Società Madonna dei Martiri di Hoboken, in collaborazione con la Società Hoboken Italian Festival, ha allestito l'annuale dinner dance presso il ristorante Macaluso di Hawthorne in New Jersey a cui hanno preso parte circa 400 persone. Durante la serata è s...
Vinitaly: Il Ministro Martina inaugura la 48° edizione/Asset strategico per un comparto che in Italia vale 12 miliardi
Il mondo del vino per quattro giorni si dà appuntamento a Verona con la 48ª edizione di Vinitaly. Aperto ieri dal ministro delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali, Maurizio Martina, il più importante Salone internazionale dedicato a vini e distillati rappresenta un comparto che in Italia vale oltre 12 miliardi di euro, impiega 1,2 milioni d...
New Sapori restaurant brings the distinctive flavors of Sicily to Washington Twp.
Frank Poma grew up in his family's kitchen — "I was peeling garlic when I was 5 years old," he says — and even worked for a while in a banquet center. But it was his cousin in Sicily — Salvatore Monteleone — who became a chef with his own restaurant. Then Monteleone came to the U.S. and the two began talking about opening a place together...
Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea at Sacred Heart Church
by Sebastian D'Elia The Plainfields' Chapter of UNICO celebrated a successful concert at Sacred Heart Church with the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea featuring Broadway hits, pop standards and Italian classical compositions and favorites to a delighted audience of more than 400 on a beautiful Spring day. The orchestra was led by...
Chef/owner opens his 4th Bello Cucina restaurant in Spicer, Minn.
When Jason Mueller opened an Italian restaurant in Morris eight years ago, he was chided for thinking that dishes he made — like scallopini, marsala, wild mushroom pancetta or butternut squash ravioli and lobster — would find an audience in the heart of rural Minnesota. He proved his critics wrong and has since opened three Bello Cucina re...
Gioia's Deli food truck begins daily stops around St. Louis
Starting Tuesday, a hot salami truck will be making its way around St. Louis each weekday. Gioia's Deli Food Truck will serve up its hot salami, roast beef, salami and beef, Italian trio, poor boy, turkey, the veggie and porknado downtown, in company parking lots and industrial parks. The truck will also be present at festivals and events such as...
Aldo de Vero, Giuseppe Campisi: Piano Duet
Aldo de Vero and Giuseppe Campisi met in 2006 and decided to form a piano duet. Since then, they have played an amazing number of concerts in Italy and Europe, though Aldo lives in Naples and Giuseppe lives in Avola, Sicily. What makes their (very long distance!) rehearsal meetings fruitful and alive is the awakening of a deep-rooted love...
35° Festival La Versiliana
From July 15th to August 22nd, "La Versiliana Festival," is back in the exclusive location of Marina di Pietrasanta, now in its 35th edition. Twenty-nine events, starting at 21:30, with drama, theater, dance, and music for a diverse and prestigious bill that aims to combine traditional repertoire with more contemporary representations. &n...