Portillo's to open new restaurant in Champaign
by Greg Trotter The fighting Illini just got a recruiting boost from an alum: Portillo's is coming to town. "It's nice to go back to a place where you have some good memories," said Keith Kinsey, Portillo's CEO and class of 1976 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For Portillo's, the Oak Brook-based ch...
THE IABA 2016 Annual AWARD WINNERS
Hear ye, hear ye!! Your Board Of Directors is extremely pleased to announce the 2016 IABA Annual Award winners. These awards were announced and distributed at the Christmas Party last week. A huge congrats to all the winners!! And, if you missed the party, you missed a grand time! IABA Outstanding Member of the Year - Joe & Nick CapraI...
Bellerive Country Club bocce courts
Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, MO has add outdoor bocce courts for their member's enjoyment. These outdoor grass court have been set on the croquet course. Plans are to make the courts more permanent by removing the grass and adding a more level and faster courts with sides for a more profession game. On January 2, 2017 the Italia America Bo...
St.Louis: nuovi incontri e nuova sede per "Italiano per piacere"
Novità in vista per "Italiano per Piacere": l'associazione, infatti, si prepara a cambiare sede. Secondo quanto riportato da "It@lico", periodico dell'associazione diretto da Franco Giannotti, il trasloco era annunciato, essendo oggi, 31 agosto, ultimo giorno di apertura del ristorante "da Baldo", sede di IPP e di altri club italiani a St. Louis....
Art meets handicraft with the jewels of Orodautore
In Italy, an incredible arts heritage and the ancient handicraft tradition converge into a unique collection of contemporary jewels. Orodautore features over 300 unique pieces designed by worldly renowned artists, architects and designers, and produced by expert goldsmiths. The project was launched in 1987 by Arezzo Fiere e Congressi to promote the...
Caravaggio
In conjunction with the exhibitionBodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacyon view at LACMA through February 10, 2013 The Italian Cultural Institute presents CARAVAGGIO directed by Angelo Longoniwith Alessio Boni, Paolo Briguglia, Elena Sofia Ricci,Jordi Mollà, Claire Kleim, Benjamin Sadler,Paolo Giovannucci, Stefano Fregniscreenplay by Andr...
Philadelphia si promuove a Showcase Usa-Italy 2013
Il Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PHLCVB) ha annunciato la sua partecipazione a Showcase Usa-Italy 2013, evento promosso dall'U.S. Commercial Service del Consolato Generale Americano in collaborazione con l'Associazione Visit Usa Italia e la U.S. Travel Association. Quest'anno la manifestazione – una vera e propria vetrina degli Sta...
2013 St. Joseph Altar Celebration
Thank you to all of the volunteers and attendees of the 16th annual St. Joseph Altar Celebration, held at the Italian-American Cultural Center of Iowa on March 18th and 19th, 2013. Doors opened at 5:30 PM on Monday, March 18th. Msgr. Frank Chiodo, pastor of St. Anthony parish in Des Moines, blessed the altar following the children's "tupa tupa" (k...
Inside Issnaf Scholarship Opportunities For Engineers Born After 1978
The Italian National Engineer Council, in collaboration with ISSNAF, just announced a contest for the assignment of 9 scholarship opportunities reserved to the engineers enrolled in the Italian professional roster who were born after 1978. The announcement will be fully presented in Cernobbio on April 30th during the conference about the training o...
Cooking school at Tuscan kitchen
Customers have dined at the award-winning Tuscan Kitchen restaurant (recently featured on the Food Network) and have sampled and shopped their way through Tuscan Market, the newest artisanal marketplace in New England which opened October 2012.
McDonald’s pairs with Barilla pasta to develop "Mediterranean diet" menu items
by Lizzy Davies One is an iconic brand of Italian cuisine that has been in the same family for four generations. The other is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the world. They may, as one Italian newspaper remarked on Thursday, be seen by purists as "the devil and holy water", but McDonald's and the Parma-based pasta maker Barilla have now jo...
Indiana’s Little Italy Communities
Although Indiana has had an Italian connection from the very beginning – Enrico Tonti accompanied the explorer LaSalle in 1679 and Francesco Vigo assisted George Rogers Clark in exploring Indiana, it was only after 1880 that Italian immigrants were attracted to the state in any numbers. Indianapolis' first Italians came from the Lombardy, Liguria,...