Etruscan stone could help unravel enigma of one of Italy's first civilizations
A rare inscription found on a stone unearthed near Florence is exciting archaeologists who say it may help reveal the secrets of the Etruscans, one of Italy's earliest and most enigmatic civilizations. The Etruscans flourished in central Italy 2,500 years ago but their culture and language were assimilated into the Roman empire. They left...
Italian little Italies: Vipiteno Time Suspended on the Torre delle Dodici
WTI Magazine #79 2016 May 13Author : I borghi più belli d'Italia Translation by: The town sprung up along the Brennero road, the most important communication link between Italy and Germany. In spite of the construction of new residential areas, the layout of the town has remained more or less unaltered since the end of the 13th centu...
Robin Trento: Italian Paintings in Los Angeles Museums
Presented by the Cedars-Sinai Alumni Association and Medical Staff, Robin Trento will offer a virutal tour through local museums exhibiting exemplary Italian paintings from the 1300s through 1700s. The illustrated discussion will focus on these 500 years of artistic mastery, tracing the innovations and developments that brought Italy to the forefro...
Missione del funzionario itinerante ad Hartford, Connecticut
Si informa la comunità italiana residente nello Stato del Connecticut che il giorno 6 luglio 2016, sarà effettuata una missione itinerante per la rilevazione dei dati biometrici ai fini del rilascio del passaporto italiano. La missione avrà luogo presso i locali della "ACAI" 506 Franklin Avenue, Hartford, CT a partire dalle ore 08:00. Si p...
Italian white wine's journey to prominence in the U.S.
Vini bianchi (Italian white wine) has had a journey of several centuries in the U.S. since the mid-1900s. Once, Italy's most important exports to the States were Chianti and Enrico Caruso. Then came the "War to End All Wars," then World War II. By 1945, the spigot of Italian wine imports had slowed to a trickle. In 1946, a canny Ital...
Nora: The joy of cooking in Cleveland's Little Italy
Ribbons of hand-rolled pasta nestled in a luxurious sauce of good cheese, cream and coddled egg, spiked with salty nuggets of pancetta then tossed with fried potato matchsticks for a charming unexpected crunch and slices of cured egg yolk for even more umami richness. Those with a Proustian food memory or preternatural love for the extra-opulent wi...
Italian-born classical guitarist Flavio Sala starts his career anew in the United States
One night, the internationally acclaimed classical guitarist Flavio Sala headlined a performance by a symphony orchestra at Prokofiev Concert Hall of the Philharmonic Society of Russia. Three weeks later, he was playing at a barn in Carroll County as the opening act for a Baltimore bluegrass band. What happened in between still has fr...
Mangia! Italian fest returns to Watkins Glen this weekend
A community talent show, more live music and parade route improvements are among the enhancements to look for at the 37th annual Schuyler County Italian American Festival from Friday through Sunday at Clute Park in Watkins Glen. L'Osteria at the Park, renovated bocce courts and Italian gift sales are other additions. "The committee is...
1671 Reasons Why We Will Never Be Bored By Italian Wine
Let's start with a little bit of history. Back in 1905, more than sixteen hundred varieties – 1671, to be exact – were cultivated at a plant nursery run by Sella & Mosca winery near Alghero, on the island of Sardinia. Sixteen hundred and seventy-one. When I learned that an actual catalog exists that documents each of those 16...
Little Italy Heritage Commission: we need to advance efforts on historical preservation
by Convivio SocietyConvivio has made great progress in our preservation efforts with the development of the digital archives and our partnership with UCSD to house the physical repository. But much more work needs to be done in collecting and cataloging artifacts from San Diego's Italian community. Learn more about our heritage-preservation wo...
New Italian Restaurant Opens in Massapequa Park
A new Italian restaurant opened up in Massapequa Park this past weekend. Tra'mici Ristorante Italiano (which translates to "Among Friends") hosted their grand opening, complete with a ribbon cutting, on Saturday night. The restaurant, located on 4913 Merrick Road, replaced the steakhouse Cavendish & Ross, which opened in March las...
Local author & filmmaker premieres international "docufilm" about surviving deadly "Titanic of the 1950s" shipwreck
An international film about Pierette Simpson's harrowing survival of the Andrea Doria shipwreck will premiere at the Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit Film Theater on October 6, 2016. Pierette Domenica Simpson produced the film, Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved? to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the catastrophe on June 25, 1956. Program...