Here are Oakland's top 5 Italian spots
Looking for a mouthwatering Italian meal near you? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian spots around Oakland, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to satisfy your cravings. Looking to pop in to the latest popular spots? It's a good time now, since consumer spending at restaurants...
Paul Loparco to lead state OSDIA lodge
Paul Loparco has been elected president of the Illinois-Wisconsin Grand Lodge, Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America. A member of OSDIA since 1999, Loparco served as trustee, vice president and president of Leone D’Oro Lodge #2700 before ascending to the state presidency. “It’s a big step for me and I still have a lot to learn, but I’m certa...
Hidden in the Rubble: Finding A Family's Past in Poggioreale, Sicily
“We would not be who we are today without the grit and grind our ancestors endured,” says Sarah Campise Hallier, whose story we’re featuring on this month’s episode of our Back to Your Italian Roots series. Along with her mother and siblings, Sarah traveled to her ancestral town, tiny Poggioreale in western Sicily, for the first time last autumn....
Italian Street Food & Beer Fest
Start the new year off right and join us for our first storewide event of 2020! Get ready for unlimited bites and sips at Italian Street Food & Beer Fest on Sunday, February 16 at Eataly Las Vegas. Some of the best Italian food is what you can get from the little man with the carrettino, or "little cart," off the side of the road in small towns and...
Miami: onorificenza a Maria Padovan
Il Console Generale d’Italia a Miami Cristiano Musillo ha consegnato nei giorni scorsi l’onorificenza dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia che il Presidente Mattarella ha conferito a Maria Padovan, fondatrice della Metropolitan International School of Miami. Padovan è stata nominata Cavaliere per il suo contributo alla diffusione della lingua e della...
Making Coffee with a Moka – Step by Step
The moka is an easy and inexpensive tool for preparing coffee. Its name comes from the city of Mocha in Yemen, an area best known for the production of coffee, especially Arabica quality, but its use is 100% Italian. Making coffee with a moka is a sacred ritual, to be followed to the letter for a good result, with an intense taste and irresistible...
Inizio on Elmwood ignores quantity in favor of fresh, quality pasta
Lots of eaters weigh the attractiveness of Italian-American pasta houses by the vastness of their servings. Acres of mozzarella, mountains of meatballs, and more macaroni than a marathoner can manage. Diners like personable servers and a mint with the check, but in Buffalo, nothing brings them back like a doggy bag that takes two hands. So it was i...
Federazione Associazioni Campane negli USA. Trombetta rieletto Presidente, succede a Rocco Manzolillo
Nicola Trombetta rieletto Presidente delle Associazioni della Campania negli Stati Uniti d’America. Originario di Solofra, in provincia di Avellino, Nicola Trombetta era già stato Presidente dell’importante associazione italiana negli USA fino a due anni fa, lasciando successivamente il posto al Presidente del Club San Cono di Brooklyn Rocco Manzol...
Fellini guide to Rome
As Italy celebrates the centenary of the birth of Federico Fellini, we outline some of Rome's sites most associated with the great Italian film director who died in 1993. Trevi FountainThe landmark most readily associated with Fellini is without doubt the Trevi Fountain, whose baroque majesty played a central role in La dolce vita (1960). The film'...
Because there’s always something new to learn about what you love!
Fun Fact 1: the Etruscans already enjoyed pizza It seems the Etruscans — who lived in modern day Tuscany and Latium between the 9th and 1st centuries BC — were the first people in Europe to enjoy baked, pizza-like flatbreads. But let’s not forget the one who invented baking were the Egyptians! Fun Fact Two: the word pizza is (at the very least) 100...
Comedy of Venice Promises Laughs, Masks and Good Italian Theatre by John Morogiello
January 30 - February 28. Best Medicine Rep Theatre at Lakeforest Mall, 701 Russell Avenue, Gaithersburg, MDCelebrating Commedia dell'Arte at its best, Comedy of Venice features Money, Power, Love, and a Grand Canal! Comedy of Venice is the hilarious true story of Venetian authors Carlo Goldoni (The Servant of Two Masters) and Carlo Gozzi (Turandot...
Italian-Driven Luna Park Replaces La Centrale at Brickell City Centre
After a two-year run, La Centrale has given way to a new food hall at Brickell City Centre. Luna Park is still all about Italian food, but the new team behind the renamed three-story complex has infused the space with different decor, flavors, and ingredients. "Like La Centrale, we cover many regions of Italy and offer fish, meat, and vegetarian di...