Middletown: Concert association hosts “Rigoletto” by CT Lyric Opera, CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra at MHS May 14
Composer Giuseppe Verdi's bold and fascinating opera, Rigoletto, will be presented live and fully staged in Middletown on Saturday, May 14. Performed by the acclaimed CT Lyric Opera company and CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, the Greater Middletown Concert Association hosts this one-night-only event at Middletown's MHS Performing Arts Center, 200 La...
Nine literary cafés to visit in Italy
Although it opened in France, the first literary café in Europe was the endeavor of an Italian man: young Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, from Sicily, opened Le Café Procope in Paris in 1686. The Procope was located opposite the Comédie Française theater, which had been built only a few years earlier, and soon became one of the centers of...
Condoleezza Rice, Airline Industry Leader Nicholas Calio, Real Estate Developer Joseph Mattone, Philanthropist Mary Ann Mattone & Labor Leader Paul Rinaldi Honored by the Sons of Italy Foundation
Leaders in public service, business, labor, and philanthropy received awards from the Sons of Italy Foundation® (SIF), the philanthropic arm of the Order Sons of Italy in America® (OSIA), the nation's largest and oldest organization for people of Italian heritage. Former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice; Airline for America Pre...
Intern with NOIAW This Summer!
PART-TIME PAID INTERNSHIPLooking for a great opportunity to learn more about social media, events management, and nonprofit administration while contributing a worthy mission? The National Organization of Italian American Women is currently accepting applications for a part-time intern to assist with office tasks related to marketing, even...
Montana lawmaker proposes replacement for Columbus Day
A Montana lawmaker is proposing that the Legislature replace Columbus Day with a named celebration of Native Americans. State Rep. Bridget Smith, D-Wolf Point, submitted a bill request last week. Smith said Thursday that the celebration of Christopher Columbus is wrong. Columbus and "his pack" committed atrocities on the indigenous peoples of...
Paulie Malignaggi’s Farewell Fight Festoons a Strong July 30 Undercard at Barclays
The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which has superseded the fabled Madison Square Garden as New York's temple of fistiana, opened for boxing on October 20, 2012. It figured that Paulie Malignaggi would be part of the inaugural show. The Brooklyn-born Malignaggi is the most famous Italian to bubble out of the Bensonhurst sectio...
MET Class Asks: Is the North End Still Italian?
In James Pasto's summer course on the history and culture of Boston's North End, students explored the colorful neighborhood, famed for its Italian restaurants, bakeries, and religious street festivals, on foot and by studying a trove of firsthand written accounts. By the final class, which was capped with a seven-course feast at Bricco, the studen...
Dallas-based Neapolitan pizza makers Cane Rosso open Austin location today
A Dallas import I can get behind has made its way to Austin. Cane Rosso ("red dog" in Italian) opened this week at 4715 S. Lamar Blvd. (really the U.S. 290 feeder road) in the space that was briefly home to St. Philip Pizza Parlor and Bake Shop. The restaurant serves Neapolitan pizzas, along with fire-roasted side dishes and a roster of pa...
Italy in the Valley: That’s Amore!
by Viki Eierdam For the 8th straight year in a row, Oregon winemakers are coming together to ensure that no one has to make a trip across the big pond to experience la dolce vita. Italy in the Valley, held on Sunday, August 21 from 1-5 p.m. at Cana's Feast, brings Old World stylings to Oregon wine country. Fourteen wineries in total w...
IAWA Welcomes NYTimes best-selling author Wally Lamb and IAWA’s Gil Fagiani
WHERE: @ Cornelia St. Café @ 29 Cornelia St. off BleeckerWHEN: Saturday Sept. 10, 2016 @ 5:45 - 7:45 pm WHO: Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels: Wishin' and Hopin', The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, She's Come Undone, and most recently, We Are Water. Lamb also edited Couldn't Keep It to Myself and...
San Gennaro in NYC: A peek into the festival's past
By Meghan Giannotta When you think of Little Italy's San Gennaro festival, Italian eats instantly come to mind. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the event that brings more than 1 million tourists and locals to Manhattan, craving cannolis. But when the Society of San Gennaro first took to the streets in 1926, the group had somethi...
Piccolo Sogno spinoff channels grandma
Back in the insalata days of 2012, the owners of Piccolo Sogno, the estimable West Town destination with the enchanted patio, dreamed of a second restaurant. A yin to Piccolo Sogno's yang, Piccolo Sogno Due refracted the original's refined Italian sensibility through seawater, specializing in fish and seafood. Jumping one Olympiad/presiden...