A little bit of Italy opens in Homer
On a trip to the Spit one can find freshly cooked seafood, gift shops, fishing charters, tourists from a variety of places and, now, gelato. Nestled in between AK Starfish Co. and Alpaca Connection, Carmen's Gelato serves up authentic Italian gelato, made by 29-year-old Homer native Carmen Ricciardi. Previously, Carmen's Gelato existed as a ca...
Cafe Lago's Portage Bay Market and Italian Deli Is Open
Little Lago, the neighborhood market and Italian deli spin-off of Montlake's popular Cafe Lago, has quietly opened. The project from Carla Leonardi replaces Ericka Burke's upscale mercantile Canal Market, which closed in February. Little Lago's social media channels are calling this a "soft opening," which for all intents and purposes mean...
Passaporti a Las Vegas: il 5 dicembre la missione del funzionario itinerante
Per agevolare l'accesso dei connazionali ai servizi offerti dall'Ufficio Passaporti, il Consolato Generale d'Italia a Los Angeles sta organizzando – in collaborazione con il locale Vice Consolato Onorario – un incontro a Las Vegas, per la raccolta in loco delle impronte digitali necessarie al rilascio dei passaporti elettronici. Il funzionario con...
Arizona Sports Hall of Fame Class announced
by Damien Alameda The Phoenix Regional Sports Commission (PRSC) has announced its 2014 class of inductees for the 44th Arizona Sports Hall of Fame. This year's Induction Ceremony will honor Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club founder Arthur J. Martori; Phoenix International Raceway entrepreneur Emmett "Buddy" Jobe; three-time Paralympic Whee...
Italian-American Club blends old and new
It'd be easy to dismiss the Italian-American Club as a throwback, just another attempt to cling to a time best viewed through rose-colored glasses. Take a closer look, though, and the vintage prints and slightly schmaltzy touches take on a softer patina that reflects an appreciation for the history of our fair city, shaped by the finely honed sense...
Italian American Cinema: From Capra to the Coppolas in Nevada
A tour of the silver screen from early Hollywood to modern blockbusters! Italian American Cinema: From Capra to the Coppolas is an original documentary exhibit curated by the Museo Italo Americano in San Francisco and written by film scholar and San Francisco State University Cinema Professor Joseph McBride. This exhibit - featuring written an...
Galletti’s serves Italian in Seaview
A hybrid restaurant opened in Seaview last July, in the location that once hosted a dollar store and then a gun shop. In the morning and early afternoon the building is home to the Metro Espresso, offering breakfast, lunch and coffee. In the evening the establishment is Galletti's, an Italian restaurant filling what owners Ron and Sue Ann Starheim...
Dondino Has Finally Come Back Home to Las Vegas
The Italian American Club on August 11, 2013 welcomed Dondino back to Las Vegas and the audience once again fell in love with the magnificent Dondino. Vibrant and stunning as ever, dressed in his signature tuxedo, Dondino captured the audience. His style and humor had the audience recalling memories of why they fell in love with him so man...
Salt Lake City native chucks it all for Italy
What traveler hasn't daydreamed of selling one's possessions and returning to live in the foreign country where one feels alive and full of joy? But how many people actually do it? Salt Lake City native Lisa Condie did and is creating a new life in Florence, Italy, where she and another Salt Lake City native are building a tour compan...
Andrea Bocelli to perform at Power of Love Gala for Keep Memory Alive
Popera prince Andrea Bocelli will perform a special Keep Memory Alive concert for the next Power of Love Gala on June 11 to benefit our downtown Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. When the Italian tenor was here for a Christmas concert at MGM Grand two weeks ago, Andrea and his wife, Veronica, toured the Frank Gehry-designe...
Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame winners named
And this year's inductees to the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame are...... Gio Osso of Virtu Honest Craft for Chef of the Year. Osso, who's known for his modern Italian cuisine, beat out an illustrious group that included Charleen Badman of FnB, Mel Mecinas of Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North, and Justin Beckett of Beckett's Table a...
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga prepare to salute Frank Sinatra’s 100th
by Robyn Leach The spirit of Frank Sinatra was very much alive Wednesday night in the restaurant named after "The Chairman of the Board" at Steve Wynn's Encore. Sinatra will be even more so Dec. 12, "Ol' Blue Eyes' " birthday, when CBS airs a two-hour special from Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas with stage and audience filled with su...