St. Anthony’s Fest trimmed to 2 days
By Susan Clark Porter The traditional end-of-summer St. Anthony's Festival will be held this Labor Day weekend, although organizers have scaled it back from three days to two. Weather and soggy ground at the SMS Field forced last year's festival, which pays tribute to the strong Italian heritage in this town, to be postponed until Col...
Remembering Samuel Magaro: 'a good and honorable man'
By Deb Kiner Samuel Joseph Magaro was a retired Magisterial District Judge in Lower Paxton and West Hanover townships. Magaro, 82, died May 9 at home. He was a William Penn High School graduate, attended Elizabethtown College and Penn State, served in the U.S. Air Force and was a veteran of the Korean War. Magaro was a probat...
Aspettando la Festa della Repubblica a New York...
di Chiara Zaccherotti Come di consueto ormai da molti anni, le istituzioni che a New York rappresentano l'Italia si uniscono nell'organizzazione delle celebrazioni per la Festa della Repubblica a New York, un evento che, come accaduto anche in passato, prevede numerose iniziative, tra conferenze, mostre, concerti, proiezioni e present...
A Look at the 2015 Festa della Madonna del Sacro Monte at Holy Face Monastery, Clifton, New Jersey
Thank you Tony for sharing with us your wonderful pictures of the Feast of the Madonna del Sacro Monte (May 30th) at Holy Face Monastery in Clifton, New Jersey. Sadly I was unable to attend the celebration this year, but I heard so many good things. Mass was celebrated in English and Italian with Msgr. Joseph Ambrosio, Pastor of Our Lady of Mount...
Italian American Cinema: From Frank Capra to the Coppolas
Italian American Cinema: From Capra to the Coppolas, an original, documentary exhibit by the Museo Italo Americano, written by Joseph McBride, will be on exhibit at the Museo from September 18, 2015 through March 6, 2016. The American cinema, from its inception, has played a major role in shaping our perceptions of our country and ourselves, a...
Civico 1845 arrives in Little Italy
by Ed Bedford Is Little Italy on the move or what? Latest opening is at the Piazza Basilone (named for San Diego's Italian-American war hero). It's in the spot that was Zia's, on the corner of India and Fir. This is Civico 1845. (Pronounce it "CHEE-vee-ko," they say). Sounds historic, right? Wrong. "That's just our street number,...
Andrea Bargnani reportedly spurns the Kings, signs with Brooklyn
By Kelly Dwyer We're officially in the Andrea Bargnani-portion of the NBA summer. And, because this is the NBA (and also because Bargs is Bargs), there is intrigue involved. ESPN reported on Saturday that Bargnani was set to take some of that salary cap space that the Sacramento Kings furiously worked to deal away for during the s...
Between Modena and Bologna, a sports car Mecca thrives on tenacity, technology and creativity
by Natascia Ronchetti In San Matteo, a few kilometers from the center of Modena, an unmarked warehouse stands next to the Maserati Corse plant. The anonymous no-frills site is the heart of "Giorgio", the new project of Alfa Romeo, the operating base where a group of engineers designed the new Giulia by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, a model ce...
Art lovers and wine makers collude to restore a Renaissance masterpiece in Chianti
Domenico Ghirlandaio was the artist that, in 1476, painted the Hall of the Last Supper of the abbey of St. Michael the Archangel, founded in the 9th century and enclosed in the wooded hills of Passignano, in the Chianti area. Then the centuries damaged the structure, which meanwhile became the castle of the Dzieduszycki counts, who chose t...
Italian gardens: Miramare Castle, Grignano
WTI Magazine #66 2015 August, 21Author : Italian Botanical Heritage Translation by: The Miramare Castle stretches from the promontory of Grignano, on the Gulf of Trieste. A 22-hectare romantic park frames the castle and then degrade towards the sea. Until 1855 the park area was a barren and fallow land, that the young and romantic Ar...
Sfida architettonica made in Italy al ‘Chicago Tribune’
by Barbara Minafra Nel 1922 il "Chicago Tribune" lanciò un concorso internazionale per la progettazione della sua nuova, prestigiosa, sede. Per il giornale, fondato nel 1847 e destinato a diventare il principale media del Midwest e l'ottavo quotidiano statunitense per diffusione, fu un'abile mossa pubblicitaria: affermarsi come op...
Diverse food at Festa Italiana
by Michael Stavola Among the events at Festa Italiana in the Frontenac on Saturday, none is more anticipated than the food sampling, where patrons can try a diverse range of food. Despite the Italian undertone, the event will have a variety of cultural food, passed down from early settlers to Southeast Kansas. Proceeds from the event,...