La Tradizione continua con il Ferragosto Italiano a Dallas
Si è svolto in Texas il consueto appuntamento tradizionale del Ferragosto Italiano. Pur con le ultime maggiori restrizioni per il Covid emanate dalle autorita' della citta' di Dallas e con una giornata caratterizzata da avverse condizioni meteo, numerosi italiani ed Italo americani hanno partecipato all'evento conviviale grazie all'iniziativa dell...
Tontitown tradition: Homemade spaghetti returns to Grape Festival
Jettie Franco recently spent hours running dough through a roller to make spaghetti for her town's annual grape festival. It's a tradition she has been participating in for about 60 years and that has been in the Franco family for generations. Franco worked alongside family members and other prominent Tontitown families to prepare the dinners for t...
Volunteers begin cooking spaghetti for Tontitown Grape Festival
For the 122nd time, the annual Grape Festival is coming to Tontitown. The festival started all the way back in 1898 when the Italian families who immigrated to Arkansas held a tasty meal to celebrate the harvest. The Grape Festival will feature free live music, a carnival, the grape stomp, and of course, the famous spaghetti dinners. Volunteers hav...
Italian Society Mausoleum Cleaning Saturday July 17th 9am to noon Metairie Cemetery
This Saturday from 9am to noon at Metairie Cemetery "we" will continue the cleaning of the 15+ Italian / Sicilian Mausoleums. Please share this to your Italian Organization's members. We are being assisted by a dozen volunteers from http://www.SaveOUrCemetery.org and a crew from the Monumental Task Committee http://www.MonumentalTask.org Please vo...
S. Gary Polozola’s newly released “How to Stuff in Italian” is a collection of family recipes passed down through a long line of Sicilian cooks.
“How to Stuff in Italian”: a delicious collection of family recipes. “How to Stuff in Italian” is the creation of published author S. Gary Polozola, a native of Baton Rouge who currently resides in Arlington, TX with wife, Kathy. Polozola earned a Juris Doctorate degree from Texas A&M School of Law and an MBA from Southeastern Louisiana University....
Italians and jazz? A former Italian culture center on Esplanade Avenue doubles as jazz landmark
As New Orleans jazz landmarks go, it’s an unlikely one. For starters, it’s still standing, somehow having survived that period in history in which the idea of preserving the city’s cultural landmarks simply didn’t exist. Also, there’s its location. It’s not Backatown, that then-unfashionable area behind the French Quarter where the city’s Black pop...
'Once-in-a-lifetime show.' OKC museum setting scene for ancient Rome exhibit with art, food
An Italian summer is coming to Oklahoma City, with legendary art, luminous landscapes and long-awaited feasts. For the first time, the National Archaeological Museum, Naples is sending show-stopping selections from its impressive Roman antiquities collection to North America in a landmark new show — and that exhibition will be presented exclusivel...
Usa, Texas: la comunità Italiana di Dallas festeggia l’Italia
Domenica 13 Giugno la Comunità Italiana ed Italo-Americana si e’ riunita nell’area metropolitana di Dallas/Ft Worth in Texas (dopo 18 mesi dall’ultimo evento avvenuto di presenza, causa Covid)a seguito dell’iniziativa del Rappresentante del Cgie Vincenzo Arcobelli che in cooperazione con le Associazioni che operano sul territorio Texano, la CSNA,...
Oklahoma family remembers passing of decorated WWII pilot and Pearl Harbor survivor
On this Flag Day, friends, family and fellow military are remembering a very special veteran in Northwest Oklahoma City. Airforce personnel performing a full military funeral for the passing of a 100-year-old World War II veteran that embodied the essence of America’s greatest generation, a man that fought for that flag across two oceans in the air...
Welcome the new logo and new webpage of the Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston!
The Italian Cultural & Community Center (ICCC) is pleased to introduce the launch of our new logo and brand identity as part of the ongoing evolution of our center by refreshing our look to better reflect who we are. The Board of Directors has chosen a dynamic new logo that is both modern and represents Houston’s cultural diversity and the embracin...
The Painters of Pompeii
The Painters of Pompeii: Roman Frescoes from the National Archaeological Museum, Naples will see a number of collection highlights travel to North America for the first time. Opening June 26 and running through October 17, this historic presentation of the art of painting in ancient Rome will be presented exclusively at the Oklahoma City Museum of...
Sicilian Heritage ushers in return of festivals
The first of Tangipahoa Parish’s traditional festivals to make comeback from the pandemic is happening this weekend – the Independence’s Sicilian Heritage Festival. Usually held the second weekend in March, the Sicilian Festival may be a little warmer than usual, but it is returning with all the favorite traditions – live music, the spaghetti eatin...