Italian curiosities. Why is Italian the language of music?
If you are a musician or an opera fanatic, you are bound to know some Italian, as our beautiful language is regarded as the language of music across the world. You only need to pick up any score to understand it: piano, pianissimo and forte, allegro, andante and maestoso are only some of the indications every musician and singer follows every day,...
Sandro’s Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant opens at Christiansburg Marketplace
A little bit of Italy has arrived! A family-owned pizzeria and Italian restaurant is making its debut. Sandro’s Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant is in Christiansburg—tucked in the corner of the new Marketplace shopping center. “Me, my brother and my sister grew up in the restaurant business. And my brother and I have opened up restaurants over the d...
St. Anthony’s Italian Festival this weekend in Glassboro
St. Anthony’s annual Italian Heritage Festival will take place 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11 at Glassboro’s town square. Celebrating the cultural roots and the history of Italians in America, the event will begin with procession from the St. Anthony’s Mutual Aid Society on Church Street to Rowan Boulevard, featuring the St. Anthony’s statue, deco...
Italy to start giving third dose of covid vaccine
Italy is to start giving a third dose of covid-19 vaccines later this month to people with the most fragile immune systems, such as cancer patients and transplant recipients, health minister Roberto Speranza has confirmed. The third round of Italy's vaccination campaign would begin on "the most frail patients" in September, said Speranza, before he...
The ICS - Italian Language Program is looking for a Children’s Language Program Coordinator (Contractor)
Requirements: Must have a work permit; Native Italian; University degree, preferably in Education; Passion for teaching children; Previous experience in teaching children; Creative, flexible, motivated and with a positive personality. Il/la candidato/a ideale dovrà coordinare insegnanti, sillabi, materiale, libri, e formazione delle classi, con il...
Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro Named Humanitarian of the Year for the 2021 Columbus Day Parade and Celebration Weekend
Columbus Citizens Foundation today announced New York City Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro as the recipient of 2021’s Humanitarian of the Year Award. Nigro joins the previously announced guests of honor for this year’s Columbus Celebration, including 2021 Grand Marshal Michael Pascucci, and Columbus Citizens Foundation’s 2021 Honorees Joe Gurrera an...
Movie review: From the Vine, a film about finding yourself in Italy
Joe Pantoliano has been put out to pasture, quite literally, in this film about finding yourself in rural Italy. Pantoliano, who contorted our minds in Christopher Nolan's Memento, double-crossed us in The Matrix, and ran with the mob in The Sopranos, is now making wine in the idyllic Italian town of Acerenza. Yep, Pantoliano's career arc has a fam...
Messaggio di saluto della nuova Console italiana a Detroit, Paola Allegra Baistrocchi
Cari Connazionali, è con profondo e sincero entusiasmo che rivolgo a voi tutti un caloroso saluto nel giorno dell’assunzione delle funzioni di Console d’Italia in Detroit, con giurisdizione per gli Stati del Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky e Tennessee. Sono onorata di poter rappresentare il nostro bellissimo Paese, sotto la guida dell’Ambasciata...
In Niles, 121st Maria SS Lauretana Festival Celebrates Religious Traditions
The faithful returned to Golf Mill Park in Niles over the Labor Day holiday for the 121st annual Feast of Maria SS Lauretana Festival, a Sicilian religious tradition dating back to the 1620s in Italy and to the year 1900 in the Chicago area. Although Friday, Sept. 3 and Saturday, Sept. 4 was a more traditional street festival with food, carnival r...
V’s Italiano Ristorante In Missouri Has Been Dishing Up Authentic Italian Meals Since 1963
Those of us who love dining out have pretty much struck gold in Missouri. We have so many places to eat – from classic diners to waterfront restaurants – that we could probably eat out for every meal for the rest of our lives. That makes having a dining bucket list pretty important. At the top of that list, add V’s Italiano Ristorante in Missouri....
Taranto: Southern Italy's hidden treasure
The Puglia region envelops the "heel" of the boot-shaped Italian peninsula. Laden with olive groves, surrounded by clear, sparkling water and speckled with charming, historic towns and villages, its rustic appeal has made it an increasingly popular destination for tourists. The region's list of must-see attractions includes the UNESCO World Heritag...
Local history: Akron sculptor helped carve Cleveland Guardians
An Akron sculptor is earning new recognition for his role in creating eight iconic statues on Cleveland’s skyline. In the early 1930s, Italian immigrant Cory Fiocca helped carve the Guardians of Traffic on the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, now known as Hope Memorial Bridge. The 43-foot art-deco figures, sculpted out of Berean sandstone on the bridge’s fo...
