Italian Cuisine Takes Chicago By Storm
Chicago is having a very Italian moment. Throughout 2013, the city has enthusiastically participated in the nationwide celebration of the Year of Italian Culture with concerts, stage performances, and, most notably, the stunning summer light installation Divina Natura at The Field Museum. But as the nation revels in Italian culture, in the Windy Ci...
Cinema italiano a Detroit: Everybody’s Right by Paolo Sorrentino
Award-winning Italian actress Iaia Forte is once again working with Paolo Sorrentino after the extraordinary international success of "The Great Beauty". In the play "Everybody's Right" adapted from Sorrentino's novel, Iaia Forte plays Tony Pagoda, a Neapolitan singer at the height of his career in 1950′s-era New York, as he awaits the most importa...
Coda di Volpe is a splash of southern-Italian spice on the Southport corridor
By Mike Sula As a food writer, I'm beginning to view the appearance of every new Italian restaurant with existential dread. In terms of word slinging, the battle between steak houses and Italian spots for Chicago restaurant hegemony throughout the last few years has me running low on ammo. While there are fresh things to write and be exci...
CSO's Riccardo Muti receives award from Italian American Chamber of Commerce
Chicago's Italian American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) presented Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti with a Lifetime Achievement award during a gala event at the Art Institute of Chicago's Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room on Wednesday night. The IACC was founded in 1907 to support the Italian business community and American bu...
A rischio due consolati italiani in Usa
La Farnesina sta considerando la chiusura di una ventina di sedi consolari nel mondo. Fra queste, secondo indiscrezioni raccolte dal Sole 24 Ore, vi sono i consolati di Detroit e Filadelfia. Si tratterebbe di una decisione storica, soprattutto per Filadelfia dove sono state proclamate la dichiarazione di Indipendenza e la Costituzione, che...
Michelangelo's David pictured holding rifle in American advert, to Italy's fury
In 1527 his arm was smashed by rioters. In 1991 a man attacked his toe with a hammer. Now, however, Michelangelo's David has suffered arguably his greatest indignity to date. To the horror of many in the Italian cultural establishment, the world-famous marble statue has been pictured in an advertisement cradling not a slingshot but an Amer...
2013 NIASHF Athlete of the Year, Anthony Rizzo Voted to 2014 MLB All-Star Game
We would like to congratulate our 2013 Athlete of the Year, Anthony Rizzo on being voted to the 2014 MLB All-Star Game! Anthony won the National League Final Vote by receiving 8.8 million votes. He was able to beat out his peers on the NL Final Vote ballot, which included the likes of Justin Morneau, Casey McGehee, Anthony Rendon, and Just...
Lyndhurst Mayor Joseph Cicero muses over his Italian roots in documentary video
Like many Italian Americans in Cleveland's east-side suburbs, Mayor Joseph Cicero and his family landed in Lyndhurst by way of Mayfield Road, leading from Little Italy. Cicero reminisces about the Sicilian culture that helped shape him in an Ideastream documentary, tied to a four-hour series called The Italian Americans by WETA in Washingt...
Italian restaurant to open in East Dundee
Another Italian restaurant will fill the space left by Pasquale's in downtown East Dundee. Dino Mondelli, who operates Dino's Pizza and Pasta in Lake in the Hills, is leasing the site at 310 N. River St., to open LaTavola Ristorante & Pizzeria. Pasquale's Pizzeria & Delicatessen shut its doors last month after about a year in busi...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Italian Studies at The Ohio State University
The Department of French and Italian in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Italian Studies. This is a one-year, non-tenure track appointment with the potential for renewal. Candidates with strong interdisciplinary and mu...
Ciminnese society honors Vito Cali
Società San Giovanni Bosco SS. Crocifisso di Ciminna held its annual Man of the Year gala on March 6 at Alta Villa Banquets. The society was created in 1960 in honor of a patron saint who had dedicated his life to the betterment and education of children. San Giovanni Bosco, canonized in 1934, received the title "Father and Teacher of Youth." The f...
Cuisine scene with Italian American roots
Numerous eateries in our town, past and present, were the inspiration and perspiration of local Italian American families with names such as Amato, Capadona, Di Salvo and Schiro, including at least a couple of dining dynasties. Biagio Gargano, born in Sicily in 1936, gave us Gargano's Pizzeria, the Monastery and Bellini Italian Restaurant. Younger...