VIVA VERDI !
Nov 17 at 2 PM Indianapolis Opera and the Italian Heritage Society of Indiana team up to celebrate the 200th birthday of Italy's greatest opera composer. This afternoon concert features performances by opera guest soloists, the Indianapolis Opera chorus and a special prosecco toast!
Mary, Seat of Wisdom Parish hosts inaugural Italian Dinner
The Council of Catholic Women of Mary, Seat of Wisdom Parish will host its inaugural Italian Dinner on Saturday, November 9. The celebration of Italian cuisine will be held at Mary, Seat of Wisdom School's Barry Gymnasium in Park Ridge, 920 Granville Avenue, from 6 to 9 p.m. The event is open to the public. The evening offers something fun...
Dedicated groups helped save piece of history in chapel dating to WWII
Fifty years ago this fall, the Italian-American Society in Indianapolis decided to restore the Chapel in the Meadow in the Atterbury Fish and Wildlife Area. The chapel had been built 20 years earlier by Italian prisoners of war and dedicated in the autumn of 1943. So this fall also marks the 70th anniversary of the chapel itself. ...
Solon Italian Club awards scholarships, plans Italian Heritage Night: Solon Snapshot
The Solon Italian Club has been staying busy this summer, awarding scholarships to local students at the Installation and Awards Dinner on Wednesday, June 25, and planning Italian Heritage Night with the Lake County Captains, scheduled for Friday, July 11 at Classic Park in Eastlake. In early April, the Solon Italian Club Scholarship Commi...
Opportunità di business a Chicago per il 2015
1-12 Maggio: Food Wine Expo. Quarta edizione della fiera business to business dedicata ai prodotti agroalimentari Italiani. Nei due giorni di programma le ditte Italiane partecipanti avranno l'occasione di condurre incontri commerciali con i principali importatori, distributori, ristoranti, supermercati, GDO e negozi di nicchia del Midwest degli St...
Dominic DiFrisco
"My 19-year-old grandson, a sophomore at my alma mater, Fordham University, is the core of my happiness and life. I hardly acknowledge my daughter [Nina] when he's around; I'll walk right past her and go to him." These words are bemusing in their honesty and could likely belong to any proud Italian-American grandfather known for his bluntn...
Colangelo visits hometown Chicago Heights, reflects on rise to top of Phoenix sports landscape
by Paola Boivin The barbs are flowing as freely as the grappa. Jerry Colangelo is surrounded by 13 of his closest friends, many from the Hungry Hill neighborhood of his youth. "You're a funny guy, Jerry," someone shouts. "You mean 'odd'?" Joe Piunti says. "Did I ever expect Jerry to become this big? Hell no," offers Kelo Pan...
Expo aims to increase Italian-American collaborations
What color drone would you like with your new car? That could be a dealer's question if a group of Wayne State University students working with drone developer Skypersonic LLC and other companies have their way. Nearly 20 college students are working on a drone-car prototype that could communicate with each other to show camera images...
Chef's creations make pizza a finger food
John "Guido" Magnacca has put a new twist on an old classic. Magnacca, executive chef at Pinnacle Golf Club in Grove City, said his Italian Twisty Rolls are available for retail sales. "The world's first and only finger pizzas," as Magnacca describes his Italian Twisty Rolls, consist of three Italian meats and cheese wrapped in pizza doug...
Slim Manicotti is ALWAYS cookin’
by David Witter What do you get when you mix an Italian kid from Baltimore with classical music, Motown and jazz and add a little marinara sauce on the side? Timoteo Camponeschi, better known as Slim Manicotti, aka Slim Man. A singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, cook, author, TV personality and all around Renaissance man, Camponeschi has recorde...
Italian American Festa serves up favorites
The 84th annual Italian American Festa will take place from noon to 7 p.m. Aug. 11 at Hickory Grove Park, 12403 Hickory Grove Road, Dunlap. There will be spaghetti and lasagna dinners; meatball, sausage and Italian beef sandwiches; Italian desserts and beer and beverages for sale. Read more Source: http://www.pjstar.com &nb...
85 Years of Bringing Italy to Chicago
When Alfredo Capitanini, Sr., and his wife, Ada, opened the Italian Village in 1927, it was, simply, about good food. We are the same here at the Italian Village today. We are about good food, making every customer feel at home, and we respect tradition while not being afraid to innovate at the same time. A quote from a program produced fo...