Cesare Marino, antropologo di professione, nativo americano d'adozione
Cesare Marino è un antropologo del notissimo Smithsonian Institution di Washington DC e uno dei più grandi esperti della cultura dei nativi americani. So che leggendo queste mie parole Cesare penserà immediatamente che il titolo di esperto non descrive al meglio la sua relazione con la cultura indiana. Infatti, Cesare è molto più di espert...
Variety of scholarships available
Vicky Oakes, supervisor of elections, invites eligible college students to apply for one of three $1,200 scholarships through the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections a statewide, professional organization of the 67 Supervisors of Elections offices throughout the state of Florida. The organization will award three $1,200 s...
Russo’s Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen opening for dinner Monday
Russo's Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen, an Italian restaurant chain on the Mainland, planned to open its first Hawaii store for dinner Monday evening at the Safeway-anchored Laulani Village Shopping Center in Ewa Beach on Oahu. Robert Carlisle is owner and operator of the Ewa Beach restaurant, which Russo's said will act as a flagship store for future...
New York Times Review of Cotto's: Thumbs up
The New York Times' Patricia Brooks gave Cotto's Wine Bar and Pizzeria a "Very Good" rating in the newspaper's region section, published Friday online. The Italian restaurant at 51 Bank St. has "had a good bit of success" at creating "the ambience of a Roman trattoria in downtown Stamford," Brooks wrote in her review. Read more &...
Pauli’s North End – Wicked Fresh. Crazy Good.
In the words of owner Paul Barker, Pauli's North End serves "wicked fresh food that always tastes crazy good." Ingredients that are farm fresh and high quality make even the simplest sandwiches stand out, proving Barker right. Barker comes from a long line of legendary Boston food purveyors. Serving the best as a family has been their business for...
Little Italy San Jose has purchased a building for an Italian Cultural center & Museum. We are looking for donations for Italian programs.
Little Italy San Jose is a 501c3 organization that is revitilizing San Jose's original Italian settlement dating back to the 1880's. We have successfully raised funds and In Kind contributions to install a 31 foot Arch to anchor our developing Italian cultural district http://www.littleitalysj.com/archway.html This signature Arch for the L...
San Juan Capistrano and its Italian “Sister City”
Thousands of miles apart, the city of San Juan Capistrano in southern Orange Country, California, and the small town of Capestrano in the Abruzzi region, Italy, became "Sister Cities" in the year 2000. This international, non-profit Sister Cities network was created with the aim of strengthening relationships between communities in the U.S...
Embassy exhibition probes complexities of contemporary Italian art
Unanswered Prayers, a new exhibition at the Italian Embassy, examines the complexities of contemporary Italian art through photography. The exhibition presented by Ilaria Niccolini Productions features the work of Milan-born artist Anna Paola Pizzocaro. For Unanswered Prayers, Pizzocaro has designed a storyboard with each picture intended to stan...
Do You Vespa? The Eternal Vespa Love Is Blooming Again
Ironically, the most well-loved manufactured two-wheeled object of Italian pride takes its name from one of the most hated and petulant insects, a wasp, vespa in Italian. While the new Vespa campaign aims to target people who follow their hearts, asking the question 'Do you Vespa?', spring has arrived and with it, after a long winter hiber...
Finding Our Immigrant Ancestry: Butcher, Baker, Basket Maker
by Angelo Coniglio Today, most Western names consist of one or more given names combined with a family name, or surname. Surnames are a relatively recent phenomenon in human history. Nobility and landowners may have had identifying names besides their given names, but ordinary residents of most countries didn't use surnames until they were...
Little Italy residents on 1979 audio
From 1978 through 1981, the Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project recorded and collected oral histories from longtime residents of seven Baltimore neighborhoods: Highlandtown, Hampden, Park Heights, Little Italy, South/OldWest/East Baltimore; and Port of Baltimore workers. To name just a few interviewees: Schiavo, Vaccarino, Poggi, Mancu...
Italian wine: 13 generations of winemaking at the Torciano estate
WTI Magazine #32 2014 May, 29Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin Translation by: The Torciano estate was founded in 1720 by Bartolomeo Giacchi, whom was originially from Florence, but moved to San Gimiganano. The winery became a place for passerbys on the way to Rome to rest and drink where the Giacchi family could sell their wines and...