New Britain's Library Hosts Talk About 20th Century Italian Immigration to Connecticut
"Farms, Factories and Families: Italian-American Women of CT" is the topic of a talk by Anthony Riccio scheduled for June 6 at the public library downtown. Riccio will tell stories of the experiences of women who moved from Italy to Connecticut between the early and mid-20th century. His talk is set for 10 a.m. at the library at 20 Hi...
Connecticut-Bred Addazio Has Turned BC Football Around
By Desmond Conner Steve Addazio is as traditional as, well, New England. The Farmington native is set to enter his third season as the Boston College football coach and says he feels right at home. "I'm really just happy to be in the Northeast where my family is, my friends are, where I enjoy living," Addazio said. "We h...
The Man Called "Pinin"
There is an instinctive quality, an innate ability to grasp the soul of an object that some product designers have. It is the secret ingredient that separates design leaders from design followers, and Battista Farina, better known as Pinin Farina, car designer extraordinaire, had this talent. He single handedly reinvented the concept of th...
La Moderna opens at Sunset Harbour Shops
La Moderna, an Italian bar and restaurant, is joining a number of businesses at Sunset Harbour Shops in Miami Beach. The restaurant's interiors were designed by architect Roberto Liorni, and include an Italian-crafted copper bar and a Stefano Ferrara handmade brick oven. Among its menu items: spaghetti with Osetra caviar, fresh oysters and crispy l...
Sons of Italy award scholarship
Each year, the Myrtle Beach Sons of Italy Lodge #2662 awards a $1,500 scholarship to a high school student of Italian descent. This year's recipient is Christopher Moloney. He is a recent graduate of Socastee High School where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Moloney and his family were guests for dinner at the lodge the evening the pres...
Italian for Paradise
by Anne Calcagno When I was growing up in Italy, it was nearly a mandate for well-heeled northerners to summer on the sun-warmed lakes at the foot of the Alps. Boats docked at island gardens, and people took slow promenades along the shore, followed by a leisurely Sunday meal on the leafy veranda of, say, Albergo Verbano, where Arturo Tosc...
2015 Italian Heritage Festival; 11 am – 4 pm, September 19th, the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn
Back for a sixth year celebrating rich, colorful, Italian culture, is the annual Festival that honors the Feast of St. Gennaro, as celebrated by the Italian-American Club of Hilton Head (IACHH). Saturday, September 19th from 11am to 4pm, join the fun outdoors at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn. Offering something to please everyone, the...
Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all'Estero - Elezioni 2015
On September 26, 2015 the Country Assembly will hold its proceedings at the Embassy of Italy in Washington and will be called to elect two regional members for the United States on the occasion of the renewal of the Consiglio Generale degli Italiani all'Estero (CGIE). The CGIE is the body representing Italian communities abroad across all...
Digging Into Carbone
One of the most buzzed-about restaurant openings of the next few months is Carbone, which is slated to open its doors in Aria in October. The restaurant is a spinoff of the popular Greenwich Village restaurant of the same name, which is known for its Italian-American cuisine and tableside preparations, and which was a finalist for the James Beard a...
Sirio Maccioni recovers from broken leg in Italian villa
by Emily Smith It hasn't been the best summer for famed restaurateur Sirio Maccioni, who, we've just learned, spent a month in a hospital in Tuscany, Italy, following a fall at his villa in the picturesque hillside town of Montecatini Terme. But the fans of 83-year-old Sirio, who include Spain's former king Juan Carlos, Woody Allen, Rudy...
Momentum builds for Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade
The Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade Committee will host its Honoree Dinner Gala at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, at Nanina's in the Park in Belleville. For tickets, call Barbara Freda at 973-650-3849 or Melissa Matturro at 973-661-9234. The awardees being honored in this year's parade are as follows: Vincent Micco, Grand Marshal; Me...
A taste of Stockton's Italian past
By Michael Fitzgerald Mary Risso, the "Foccacia Queen" who baked cookies for neighbors and her mailman, has died. She was 98. "Her personality was sweet," said Risso's daughter, Marie Dremelas. "When you met her for the first time you said, 'My gosh, where has this woman been all my life?'" And then Risso gave you homemade pasta sauc...
