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Last month, we told you about a popular Italian-American restaurant in the metro that was fed up because they caught one of their customers on surveillance video stealing art off their walls. This was at Flip's Win Bar and Trattoria.    The good news is the restaurant owners say they got their artwork back... They even posted the n...

The Little Italy Incorporation Task Force yesterday delivered its petition for Little Italy to become an official town in Arkansas to the Pulaski County Courthouse with 235 residents signing in favor of the efforts. Under Arkansas law, a minimum of 200 qualified voters' signatures was required before the petition could be submitted.   "The L...

Today's Blog post marks the beginning of the Texan Italian Monthly. A monthly newsletter where we will bring you nice stories about Italian culture from a Texan Italian perspective. Some stories of the Texan Italian Monthly will be about other Italian communities that Texan Italians should know about; while other stories will be about Texan It...

Maria Bertucci Compagno placed the seed-and-wine cookies on a platter in her kitchen in Mandeville, explaining how artifacts of her Sicilian heritage like this are never far away. "If I don't have cookies or meatballs or red sauce, I feel naked," she said. The platter prepared, the former restaurateur moved to the front door to greet Gui...

With delivery of a $22,000 check to the UNM Children's Hospital, Italian Festivals of New Mexico (IFNM) brings its total donation to the Hospital to more than $250,000. The dollars have been generated over the past nine NM Italian Film & Culture Festivals through ticket sales, sponsorships and in-kind contributions.   Members of the IFNM...

See Lena Prima in concert, browse the Little Italy shopping village or play bocce ball. The annual Italian Heritage Festa this weekend also offers a presentation of Italian Maids, live Italian and dance music, a St. Joseph's Altar, a "grape stomp" with local celebrities, a vino stroll, Italian genealogy sessions, children's activities, and Ita...

Elena Sgarbi è nata a Mantova nel 1973. Nel 1997 si è laureata in Scienze Internazionali e Diplomatiche presso l'Università di Trieste. In seguito a esame di concorso, nel 1998 è entrata in carriera diplomatica. Il suo primo incarico è presso il Cerimoniale Diplomatico della Repubblica e successivamente presso il Gabinetto del Ministro degli A...

"Chi meglio di una donna può parlare di passione, lavoro e amore?". Questo il passaggio principale del discorso della chef Antonella Ricco, pugliese doc, trapiantata dal 2010 a New York, nel suo discorso quale panelist ufficiale al pranzo di gala "Ladies of the vine" (Le donne della vite) tenutosi il 10 Giugno scorso in Texas.   L'evento, or...

The Greater Baton Rouge American Association is dedicated to the importance of the pursuit of education, and for this reason it wishes to help an outstanding student attend a college or university.   The Greater Baton Rouge American Italian Association is pleased to announce that it will be offering two scholarship this year (2013) for stude...

by Jamie Stengle   The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is expanding its gallery space with a new building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano that is a nod to the museum's original Louis Kahn-designed building.   "There are so many echoes of the Khan building here," said museum director Eric M. Lee as he stood in one of the new...

In the New York and New Jersey area, there are dozens of Italian clubs and thousands of Italian Americans involved in them. In Las Cruces, there is one. "We are a cultural social club," said Al "Chance" Cella, founder of the Sons & Daughters of Italy in Las Cruces group. "To continue to stay in touch with our traditions, our heritage."  ...

Andrea "Drew" Bacigalupa, a longtime artistic fixture on Canyon Road as well as a writer, teacher and World War II veteran, died Sunday at his Santa Fe home. He was 91. "He was a complex man in that he had a lot of things going on," one of his sons, Ruan Bacigalupa, said Tuesday. "He was a writer and an artist and a draftsman-illustrator for the S...