MIX: cultura at CMA
Join us on the first Friday evening of each month for an ever-changing mix of art, music, and mingling. MIX is an 18 and over event. MIX: Cultura. Friday, October 2, 2015. 5:00–9:00 p.m. Savor Italy's vibrant artistic culture as we explore Italian masterworks in the collection from ancient Rome to the Renaissance as well as contempo...
Ciminnesi to honor Vito P. Cali
Società San Giovanni Bosco SS. Crocifisso di Ciminna will honor Vito P. Cali as Man of the Year at its dinner dance on March 5 at Alta Villa Banquets in Addison. A longtime leader of the Chicago-area Italian American community and standout agent for State Farm Insurance, Cali served as the society's first president. "We're honoring Vito be...
Comic Jimmy Carrane
At a time when too many comics try to wow an audience through rapid-fire delivery, Chicago comic Jimmy Carrane has honed the slow burn, winning audiences with sly subtlety, and leaving them in stitches. Then again, Carrane had to figure something out as a kid. The son of a Calabrese father and a half-Calabrese, half-Irish mother, Carrane was one o...
The Scene: Italian-American fundraiser benefits scholarships
Everyone was Italian at Viva La Panza, which drew 660 men to Todaro's Party Center on Wednesday for an evening of great food and camaraderie. Ralph Trecaso and John Montisano co-chaired the event for the Italian-American Professional Businessmen's Club, which raises funds for scholarships for students of Italian descent. Read more ...
TONY N' TINA'S WEDDING Extends Through Spring in the Windy City
Presented by the original New York producers, in conjunction with Chicago Theater Works, one of Chicago's longest running, smash hit shows, Tony n' Tina's Wedding, has been extended due to popular demand and will run through the end of April 2017. Tony n' Tina's Wedding played an incredible 16 years in Chicago, and, during that time, entertained m...
Holy Rosary Italian festival is back - here are 5 things you should know
by Jolene Ketzenberger Who doesn't like Italian food, right? And the Holy Rosary Italian Street Festival, returning June 14 and 15 after a year's hiatus, offers plenty of great eats. Plus, it's a low-stress fest — it runs for two evenings, admission is free, parking is free. If it rains, or you just can't do Friday, you can still go Saturd...
Local business community to host Italian firms
Toledo, known for auto manufacturing and glass production, may be on its way to earning a reputation as an international city. Next month the city will play host to a two-day gathering of 20 businesses and officials from Italy seeking business and investment opportunities in northwest Ohio. Read more Source: http://w...
Legendary Tony Bertoni, Retired U.S. Marshal and Former Detroit Cop, Dies at 95
By Ross Parker Anthony (Tony) Bertoni, a legendary law man both at the Detroit Police Department and as United States Marshal, died this past Sunday at the age of 95. The Bertoni family grew up on the eastside of Detroit during the difficult years of post World War I and the Depression. Like many bright and capable young Irish Catholi...
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi will present her book The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy – April 10
A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi's unique, captivating narrative promises-and delivers. The Other Side of the Tiber brings Italy to life in an entirely new way, treating the peninsula as a series of distinct places, subjects, histories, and geographies bound together by a shared sens...
Italian-American Festival's declining numbers put end to event
By Lee Morrison Arrivederci! Tuscarawas County Italian-American Festival officials are bidding goodbye to the festival founded in 1989, but are proud of its legacy of providing scholarships and memories. President Bob Mueller, of Dover, said that the festival foundation's executive board — and later the full membership — voted unanimousl...
IU's Franco Pestilli and Cara Lewis honored by Association for Psychological Science
Two Indiana University faculty members in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have received major recognition for early career contributions to their fields. Computational neuroscientist Franco Pestilli has won the 2016 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contrib...
Jim and Pete's 75th Anniversary
In an industry where life expectancy is notoriously brief, Jim and Pete's Italian Restaurant in Elmwood Park will be celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary throughout the month of April. To thank their customers, owners Michael Bucchianeri and Jim Sorce, Jr. will be presenting diners with a gift card for an amount ($10-$1,000) revealed...