Postino WineCafe opens in LoHi with patio views and Italian eats
by Colleen O'Connor The new restaurant Postino WineCafe, which opens today in Lower Highland in the former Denver Book Binding Co., came to town because of connections. The owners, Lauren Bailey and Craig DeMarco of Arizona-based Upward Projects, met David Birzon, CEO of Snooze, when he opened a Snooze next to their restaurant in Phoenix. &n...
At Caterina’s Club “If pasta is too good, you will eat fast and get more”
by Elisabetta Russo "Bruno Serato is a wonderful helper, he works at a restaurant called the White House." "He is a loving, caring man, who helps people in need. He loves kids and also gives them food." "Bruno Serato is a chef, who cooks the best pasta ever!" "I met him because he helped me and my family." "Bruno Serato cooks spagh...
La Zingara: Contemporary Italian Cuisine
by Elizabeth Keyser The gypsy might have settled down, but after 12 years in Bethel, La Zingara Ristorante still has an adventurous spirit. Before she was a restaurateur, executive chef and owner Lisa Tassone was known to her family as La Zingara because she loved to travel. Family background — mother born in the northwestern...
Veraci Pizza Coming to Wedgwood in 2016, With Expanded Menu
by Julia Wayne Wedgwood is getting a brand new haven for Italian food, with Veraci Pizza coming soon to the former Zaw space (7320 35th Ave NE). The build out will start in November, with a projected opening date of February 2016. As Veraci made its initial impact at the farmers markets, owner Marshall Jett says the team will be l...
Columbus Day Parade, festival in Seaside this weekend
by Jean Mikle It's a celebration of all things Italian in Seaside Heights this weekend, as the borough hosts the 24th annual Ocean County Columbus Day Parade. But there is plenty to do and see in the borough before the parade marches down the Boulevard at 1 p.m. Sunday. A three-day Italian Festival, featuring lots of music, and tons o...
Italian Consulate Director of Education Visits Elmhurst Academy
by Morgan Searles Sandro Corso, responsabile scuole (director of education) of the Consulate General of Italy in Chicago, brought a little of Elmhurst Academy's Italian heritage to life when he visited the school on Sept. 29. During the visit, students explored images of famous sites, posed inquiries based on their Italian studies and were...
Italian sculptor Alex Corno comes to Valley House
by Michael GranberryValley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden in Far North Dallas is worth a visit any time of year but especially so in the fall. Its 4.5 wooded acres of an outdoor garden is a gem, a natural wonder, and the indoor gallery has always offered some of the finest art in Dallas. Its new show trumpets Italian Alex Corno, who'...
Celebrate National Cappuccino Day with Lavazza Coffee
Sunday November 8, 2015 is National Cappuccino Day. Lavazza, Italy's most authentic coffee wants to help you celebrate this special day the right way! They have enlisted their brand ambassadors and stars of Food Networks, "Extra Virgin" Gabriele Corcos and Debi Mazar to explain how drinking cappuccino in Italy differs from drinking cappuccino in th...
Echoes from the Neighborhood that Disappeared
Premieres Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 7:30pm on WMHT-TV. "A tribute to the vanished world of Italian immigrant families that fostered culture and community in the South End of Albany, NY. Our original film, The Neighborhood That Disappeared, told the story of the South End of Albany, NY which contained over one-third of the City's ethnic popu...
2016 Mario Fratti Award - Submission deadline
The Mario Fratti Award is won each year by the author of an original play in Italian or Italian dialect, never-before produced or published. The theme of this year's Mario Fratti Award is "Mothers." Entries are free to tackle this theme is any way and from any point of view. The jury evaluates each entry according to the following selectio...
Don Ciotti a Brooklyn per il documentario su Libera
La sua parola preferita è 'noi', quella che lo fa reagire è 'legalità', "una parola sostenuta, abusata, celebrata, sulla bocca di tutti fino ad impoverirla. Legalità è diventata una bandiera che tutti usano e in quel nome si sono fatte leggi, penso alla Bossi-Fini sui migranti, che ne avevano ben poca. La chiamo cultura della legalità malleabile...
NIAF accepts application for student trips
For the 17th consecutive year, the National Italian American Foundation will sponsor its Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery program, an educational and cultural initiative that sends Italian American students enrolled in a college or university to Italy each year. This all-expenses-paid trip will take place in June 2016. The goal of t...