SLLC & Italian Embassy Host Symposium for Italian teachers
In collaboration with the Education Office of the Italian Embassy, the Italian Program hosted a symposium on "Learner Centered Classrooms" to a full house of 43 Italian language teachers from area schools. Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz (Director, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures), Dr. Giuseppe Falvo (Director, Undergraduate Studies in...
The Vernacular Architecture of Italian-American Neighborhoods
December 14 (Sunday) 4:00 pm"The Vernacular Architecture of Italian-American Neighborhoods"Guest speaker: Dr. Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Part of the Immigrant Experience, A Free Lecture Series at the Hoboken Historical Museum. Sponsored by Hoboken Historical Museum.1301 Hudson Street, Hoboken, NJContact: Dar...
Italian-American Profiles of Success: Frankie Caravello
Since he was 21, Frankie Caravello has had a love and a passion for saltwater aquariums. The 2nd generation Italian-American from New Smyrna Beach, Florida, has always been into saltwater coral and fish. An aquarium is something he can look into and just get lost in—to him, it's another world and just seems to wash all the problems away. Frankie,...
Grimaldi's Pizza Expands In Woodbridge
by Frank Cohen Are well-established pizzerias from outside New Haven coming to the Elm City to prove themselves or to enjoy even greater "street cred" among kindred souls? We can't be certain. Some of it might even be push back against the expansion of the Frank Pepe brand. But with the opening of Colony Grill in Milford, Tarry Lo...
Salt Flats Out, Italian Java In
By Ted Scheffler Utah's first Illy Artisti del Gusto location, Caffe 222 (801-561-3018), has opened at 222 Main downtown. It will occupy the space that was the short-lived home to Sonny Bryan's BBQ and the even shorter-lived Salt Flats Grill & Taproom. Maybe the third time's a charm. "The opportunity to be aligned with Illy has been a...
Exporters and innovators lead the way in Prato’s textile district recovery
The textile district of Prato recorded an increase in exports of 10% in the third quarter of 2014. Yarns (despite a slowdown) and textiles are still the two main engines of growth. "Those who export and are readier to innovate are doing well," explained Andrea Cavicchi, the president of Prato's Confindustria, the association of local busin...
"Vi racconto dal set la Angelina Jolie che pochi conoscono davvero"
Sfatiamo un mito: "Angelina Jolie non è una superdiva". A dirlo è l'attore Vincenzo Amato (Nuovomondo), che insieme a Maddalena Ischiale, ha lavorato in Unbroken (nelle sale dal 29 gennaio), il secondo film da regista della signora Pitt. "Angy – come la chiamano sul set – è una persona deliziosa, ha una grande passione per il suo lavoro e...
Italian family's century-old farmland will be new community garden
If you wanted to find out what some of the first truck farmers around Denver grew, Rick Grippa would be the man to ask. His family's farm in unincorporated Adams County goes back four generations to the Italians who settled near Clear Creek, only a few decades after famed Colorado mountain man Jim Baker built his ferry across it. ...
Raganelli: an inspiration on 2 continents
More than 11 years ago, the native of Italy entered Lake Forest Country Day School for the first time. Alessandro "Ale" Raganelli was six years old, a boy who knew just a few more words in the English language than most newborns in the United States know. The first-grader from Rome uttered two words quite often back then. "Little" was one....
Italian A Day – Joe Marvullo
Renowned photographer Joe Marvullo is widely recognized as a leader in the ever-changing realm of images and design. His styles were both highly charged with color dynamics in his well-concentrated studies of destinations and in his more subtle romantic atmospherics of moods with a feeling of place in exotic locales. Born in the Bronx, in...
Can Any Part of Little Italy Be Saved? Columbia Planning Students Hear One Local Perspective
Victor Papa arrived clutching a cup of coffee from Veselka and came bearing gifts from the Doughnut Plant. The grizzled veteran of the Lower East Side gentrification wars brought something else to an urban planning lecture at Columbia University a few weeks ago: some strong opinions about the future of Little Italy. At least a few of the students g...
Luna Rossa: A taste of Italy returns
by Bill Armendariz Luna Rossa Winery is bringing a taste of the old world to the new world. Based on the popularity of last year's Pizza Night, Sylvia D'Andrea is firing up the winery's brick oven and flavoring her Italian pies with pecan wood. "We want to bring back our Pizza Night every other Tuesday, beginning April 7," said D'Andr...