Las Vegas San Gennaro feast kicks off this week
Are you Italian or just like to eat like one? If so, you will want to head out to the 34th annual San Gennaro Feast this week. The Las Vegas family fun festival celebrating the spirit of San Gennaro features more than 70 restaurant food booths, 80 amusements rides including the new 100-foot Vertigo, petting zoo and pony rides, midway games, arts...
From the official publication of the Italian American Community in Las Vegas
by Edward Bevilacqua This week, at our monthly members dinner, which was attended by over 100 of our members (about 20%) we honored six of the students who were awarded scholarships. As the Club's influence grows within the Las Vegas Community, it is important that the Club helps the community. As such, this is first time in the C...
Literary Las Vegas: Tony Toscano
Born into a tight-knit first-generation Italian-American family, Lou Torso was a bright young boy. At 10, he was recruited into a major Boston Mafia family. By 48, he succeeded his mentor and became the new Don. Tony Toscano, who grew up in the North End of Boston, shares Lou's fictionalized story in the book "90 Prince Street." After a ca...
Il paradiso degli ‘indie’ di celluloide
Il Sundance Film Festival, in corso in Utah in questi giorni, è il paradiso degli indie di celluloide. In America la segmentazione del mercato del cinema tra mainstream e underground, tra cinema di Hollywood ed indipendenti, è sensibile e feconda. La libertà creativa si respira in ogni film. Nessuna sceneggiatura è scontata: il pubblico chiede un i...
Giant Italian women invade the Palazzo
by Ashley Oñoz-Wright Ciao Bella (insert exaggerated hand gesture here). Carnival is annually marked by an over-the-top celebration with elaborate costumes and masquerades, glittering decorations and a whole lot of inebriated revelry through the streets. Wait a minute – that sounds a lot like Vegas. And because we're always looking for a...
2nd annual Il Punto! fundraising & auction dinner – April 23rd
When: April 23th, 2016 at 7pm-11pmWhere: Courtyard Hall @ Country Village, 23718 Bothell Everett Hwy, Bothell, WA 98021 Join us to celebrate the Italian Cultural Center "Il Punto!" at our 2nd Annual Fundraising & Auction Dinner Enjoy amazing food including Italian antipasti, homemade lasagna alla bolognese, main dish, delici...
Seattle Opera Announces New Season - NABUCCO, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, AN AMERICAN DREAM and More!
It's a new era at Seattle Opera. The company today announced its 2015/16 season, the first to be presented by General Director Aidan Lang, and a return to full-year programming with a total of six operas, including new productions and a world premiere. Under Lang's leadership, the company hopes to serve the community through the magic of t...
With 'Italian Style' exhibition, Portland Art Museum declares its interest in fashion design
High heels with retro flames bursting from the back of the shoes, à la Katy Perry. Coral-pink silk pajamas with jewels on the collar. A blue velvet evening suit, including a ruffled dress shirt, a patterned pocket square and a polka-dot bow tie. These items, along with dozens of other designer garments, vintage photographs of style icons a...
The Venetian Las Vegas Presents 'An Evening with Sophia Loren'
Award winning, Italian icon and actress Sophia Loren will grace the stage at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian® Las Vegas on Saturday, March 26. Loren will treat fans to an unforgettable night of firsthand, personal accounts including such topics as her life in Italy, film career and private memories. Guests will also have the oppor...
Agosto con gli Italiani
There are several picnics planned in August for the Italian and Italian-American community. Sunday, August 14th, 1.30-5.30pm – Annual Polenta picnic with the Seattle Trentino Club.Location: Des Moines beach park, FOunder's Lodge 22030 Cliff Ave South, Des MoinesIf you want to know more about this group (and maybe join the club) please email the pr...
Portland Opera Marks Its 50th Birthday
This coming Friday, the Portland Opera will mark its 50th season with a production of Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus. While this performance may particularly appeal to lovers of classic opera, General Director Christopher Mattaliano also hopes the larger community will embrace the art form. "Opera started as a very popular art form," he ex...
Stefano Catalani and the language of art
by Rita Cipalla A degree in petroleum engineering is not the usual training ground for a museum administrator. But then, Stefano Catalani, director of art, craft and design at Bellevue Arts Museum, located outside Seattle, Wash., is not your usual arts administrator. A native of Genazzano, south of Rome, Catalani seamlessly blends...