Italian Fest returns to Gurnee Park District April 28
Gurnee Park District's Viking Park Singers will host their annual Italian Fest on Friday, April 28. The fest will include Italian dinner seatings at 5-6:30 p.m. and 6:45-8:15 p.m. Each seating will feature a 30-minute performance from the Viking Park Singers. The event will take place in the dance hall at park district headquarters, 4374 Old Grand...
Pizzeria Verita owners to buy nearby Trattoria Delia
The owners of Pizzeria Verita on in Burlington plan to buy two adjacent restaurants on St. Paul Street, including the venerable Italian eatery Trattoria Delia, which has been in business for 24 years. The deal is expected to be completed next Monday, Verita co-owner Leslie McCrorey Wells told the Burlington Free Press. The deal was first reported b...
FIU names stadium for entrepreneur, real estate investor Riccardo Silva
Florida International University just named its stadium after Riccardo Silva, an Italian entrepreneur whose holdings include soccer teams, modeling agencies, restaurants and a real estate investment firm. Silva, the owner of Silva International Investments, has donated more than $3 million to the FIU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics since 20...
Italian Club of Staten Island honors 4 at gala in West Brighton
The Italian Club of Staten Island Foundaton will host its 66th annual Dinner Dance Thursday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. in LiGreci's Staaten, West Brighton. The gala evening is inclusive of a cocktail hour and a formal sit-down dinner followed by assorted desserts and dancing. Live musical entertainment will be provided by the club's own Michael Russo...
Italian restaurant pioneer to take over famed SoHo bar space
Pino Luongo, a pioneer in popularizing Tuscan cuisine in America, is branching out to Soho. Luongo, who runs the successful Morso on East 59th Street, has signed a lease to launch an eatery in the former Milady’s bar space at 160 Prince St., at the corner of Thompson. The 1,850-square-foot restaurant is expected to open in the fall. The deal was br...
Famed for ’dying’, Civita di Bagnoregio instead reborn
The pristine medieval village Civita di Bagnoregio has paradoxically found a boom in tourism due to its slow, steady collapse down a jagged cliff of volcanic rock. Its nickname is Il Paese che Muore because it has actually been collapsing for centuries down wooded hills and canyons.Though seriously threatened by erosion, Civita has been revived...
Meet the developer behind the West Austin retreat with Italian style
Without too much of a stretch, Giorgio Borlenghi could play a suave, playful diplomat in a Federico Fellini movie. Relaxed yet formal in the relaxed yet formal setting of his hilltop Hotel Granduca Austin, Borlenghi, 65, is the very image of Old World gentility: impeccable manners, immaculate attire, artful conversation. Alert to the social dynamic...
Get a Taste of Italy in South Florida, the Heaven of Seafood
Are you looking for a weekend gateway and wondering where you can go? Enough of the hustle bustle of the city. Why don’t you get the taste of sea therapy? Yes, salt water, breeze, sand and food; this is the combination that can melt anyone’s heart. And if you want a perfect combo of all the above-mentioned things, visit South Florida. Don’t you thi...
Houston design lovers celebrate launch of Italian furniture shop-in-shop
What: Debut of Molteni&C shop-in-shop. Where: BeDESIGN. The scoop: BeDESIGN CEO Adrian Dueñas and lead designer and partner Marcelo Saenz welcomed more than 100 guests to check out the new Molteni&C shop located inside the design store's 6,500-square-foot showroom on West Alabama. Houston Symphony violinist Maxine Kuo performed as guests sipped on...
Retired Southington language teacher honored with Unico gold medal
A longtime local Italian teacher will be honored as the 2016 Southington Unico Gold Medal of Honor recipient next month. Alphonse D’Angelo will receive the honor at the Gold Medal Award Dinner at the Aqua Turf Club on May 17. He taught at Southington High School for more than 30 years and helped start the school’s Italian-language program. “I certa...
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza Opens First Rhode Island Restaurant in Cranston
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, the fast-growing South Florida-based concept that uses authentic old world, coal-burning ovens to create “well done” pizza, opened its first Rhode Island location today in Cranston. The restaurant is located in Garden City Center at 220 Hillside Road. Since its inception in the early 2000s, Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza has...
Italiano luxury at C’Art
If you like the quality of luxury goods, but snarl at the prices, you’re gonna love the new boutique: C’Art Miami. They’re all about affordable luxury! But that’s not all. C’Art sells only Italiano! Shireen is crazy for their sunglasses and satchels. Tonight, it’s one of her favorite things. Ever dreamed of shopping in Rome? How about Venice – gond...