Festa Italiana begins with Mass
Archbishop Alexander Sample, who studied in Rome, will celebrate Mass in Italian at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, at The Grotto. Italian desserts will be served after the Mass. The Mass begins a week celebrating Italian-American culture in Portland, Festa Italiana. This is the festival's 25th year. Festa Week continues the next day wit...
Local restaurant starts fundraiser to aid earthquake relief for Italy
When Joe Fugere watched the footage of the 6.2 magnitude Italian earthquake that killed nearly 300 and destroyed entire towns, homes, and irreplaceable art and architecture on Aug. 24, he felt a sadness that was extremely personal. "Every time there is an event like this in Italy, it tugs at my heart," said Fugere, whose family emigrated f...
Italian American Club of Maui installs new officers for 2013
The Italian American Club of Maui held its annual Christmas party at Class Act Restaurant on the University of Hawaii Maui College campus in December and had a candle-lighting ceremony to install the 2013 officers. The officers include Fred Rawe, secretary; Diane Alba-Means, public relations; Laura Platania Moscatelli, vice president; Mary...
Tuesday Read Aloud Program focuses on Italy
The Friends of the Libraries, Kona will host a free, family Read Aloud Program from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Kailua-Kona Public Library. The program will have an Italian theme. Authors Laura Guluzzy and Lisa Corker will present their writings, "Dinner of the Seven Fishes" and "Carmela," exploring Italian traditions and the immigran...
Vegas: Tony Gemignani Serves Up Haute Gourmet Pizza at Little Tony’s
by Ryan Simoneau One the best Las Vegas restaurants of 2015 was without a doubt chef Tony Gemignani's Little Tony's at the Palace Station hotel. Nobody makes a gourmet pie like the award-winning Gemignani does, and after the massive success of his Pizza Rock restaurant in Downtown Las Vegas, Gemignani has turned his attention to creat...
New Italian restaurant coming to Green Valley Ranch
Bottiglia Cuchina and Enoteca will open its doors on May 12 at Green Valley Ranch. They will feature a modern twist on Italian classics with as crisp salads, fresh seafood and open-range meats. The restaurant will also feature in house-made pastas, braised short ribs and more. Bottiglia will also feature an expansive wine selecti...
Il Punto!, the New Italian Cultural Center in Seattle
By Claudio Bisogniero In great news for the Italian community of Seattle, there is a new Italian Cultural Center opening up soon in the city called Il Punto!. The founders are in the process of receiving non-profit status from the State of Washington and is currently securing a location to make the office. The cultural center will offer I...
Assistant Professor of Italian at University of Arizona
The Department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor of Italian beginning in Fall 2015. The area of specialization is Italian Cinema, with critical, trans-disciplinary, and/or comparative approaches to film and media studies. A secondary area of experti...
See West Seattle's Bright New Raccolto, Evocative of Sibling Vendemmia
West Seattle is on one heck of a roll, with the recent openings of a number of exciting bars and restaurants — New Luck Toy, Ounces, Dumplings of Fury, and an A La Mode Pies expansion, to name a handful. Add to the mix today's launch of Raccolto, the new venture from Vendemmia's Brian Clevenger. Take a look through the photos above — the t...
You don't have to be Italian to make great Italian food (but it helps)
By Ronald Holden One of the things that's always impressed me about Seattle is the ease with which we can find people in unexpected positions. Thank our melting pot of cultures and traditions. For example, a woman born in Burma serving as a restaurant hostess isn't surprising in and of itself — but she's at the door of an Italian restaur...
Hands Company presenta il personal robot del futuro alla Silicon Valley
Nell'immaginario collettivo, quando si pensa a un robot lo si immagina come una macchina dalla forma più o meno antropomorfa capace di svolgere funzioni al posto dell'uomo. Quando invece ci si trova di fronte ad "Adam", il robot ideato dalle giovani menti italiane di Hands Company, si ha subito l'impressione di avere a che fare con un "col...
Trolley rolls through downtown Issaquah en route to Oregon museum
By Scott Stoddard An Italian interurban trolley that came to Issaquah by way of San Francisco made a tractor-assisted run through downtown Friday in preparation for a trip to Oregon. The red-and-cream-colored trolley, acquired by the Issaquah History Museums in 2002, had sat next to the trolley barn since May 2003. It is not to be co...