Caitlin Clark’s No. 22 Jersey to be Retired by Iowa at Special Ceremony
There will never be another No. 22 for the Iowa Hawkeyes' women's basketball team again. The University of Iowa Athletics Department announced its plans on Wednesday to retire Caitlin Clark’s jersey during a special ceremony held inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Feb. 2. Iowa plans to hang Clark’s No. 22 jersey in the rafters at its home arena during...
Authentic Italian deli, Donnici’s sack lunches and catering, opens in Excelsior Springs
Excelsior Springs (MO) welcomed a new dining destination this week with the opening of Donnici’s Sack Lunches and Catering, an authentic Italian deli owned and operated by Carrie Donnici and Michael Donnici. Located at 1500 Kearney Road, the deli offers a variety of delicious options, including classic Italian pastas, hearty sandwiches, lasagna, an...
Italian Eatery in south Minneapolis to reopen under new ownership
South Minneapolis' Italian Eatery will reopen next month, with a trio of Twin Cities chef-owners at the helm. The re-imagined restaurant, to be called ie By Travail, was announced Thursday by Travail Collective. The restaurant group, which operates Robbinsdale's acclaimed Travail Kitchen and Amusements, Nouvelle Kitchen & Brewing, Pig Ate My Pizza,...
A new kind of Italian restaurant is opening in RiNo (Denver, CO) in 2025
The team behind the wildly popular Restaurant Olivia in Wash Park, one of our picks for the top 100 places to eat in the metro area, has revealed new details about its upcoming project: Emilia, which is scheduled to open on the first floor of the Current office building at 3615 Delgany Street in RiNo this spring/summer.When it was first announced,...
Ciao Bella! Nonstop flights to Italy are coming to Colorado
I have been fortunate to visit a handful of Italian cities in this surreal country over the past few years. One of the drawbacks of flying to Italy from Colorado is that you always have to have some form of a layover and they are usually quite long. Soon, you won't have to deal with the layovers if you want to experience la dolce vita in Italy as o...
Olathe Italian restaurant Toni’s unveils new Shawnee location
A locally-owned Italian restaurant that got its start in Olathe has planted roots further north. Toni’s Italian Restaurant opened its doors in Shawnee last week, in the former home of breakfast eatery Flapjacks ‘n more. The restaurant moved into a space at the Shawnee Crossings shopping center, just off Shawnee Mission Parkway and Kansas Highway 7....
Sofia Goggia dances into comeback from injury with a Super G victory and second podium at Beaver Creek
Sofia Goggia capped off a comeback weekend to remember with a victory in the women's Super G and a second consecutive podium at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Beaver Creek, Colorado on Sunday (15 December). The Italian ski ace was making her return after 10 months away from competition since suffering a fracture to her tibia and ankle in Februa...
What is the Feast of Seven Fishes and where can you find one in KC?
What is the Feast of Seven Fishes? It’s all in the name. Simply put, it’s the Italian American tradition of eating fish in place of meat on Christmas Eve day. It’s comparable to Thanksgiving in its dinner party grandeur and features, you guessed it, seven different kinds of seafood. Maybe the dinner consists of one fish prepared seven ways or a sev...
Italian Cowboys Featured in UW American Heritage Center Exhibition
The Italian word for cowboy is “buttero” and, just like the English term, it refers to horse-riding figures who herd cattle and horses on horseback. They ride the wide Maremma -- a marshy grassland in Italy north of Rome along the western coast of Tuscany. The University of Wyoming American Heritage Center (AHC) has recently opened a photographic e...
This Denver restaurant takes its entire staff to Italy each year
Barolo Grill opened in Denver in 1992. Three years later, the Italian restaurant took its staff to Italy. Not just the executive chef or a few key members of the culinary team — everyone. Nearly 30 years later, the tradition is still going strong. Each July, the restaurant closes for about 10 days so the staff can take educational field trips to re...
Aspen’s Campo de Fiori celebrates 30 years
Local Italian eatery Campo de Fiori will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Wednesday, Dec. 4, bucking the trend of independently owned restaurant closures in Aspen. “Campo has always been about the locals and making every guest who walks through the door feel special,” owner Elizabeth Plotke Hall said. “No pretense whatsoever. Great food, great ene...
A family affair: 50 years of Bosco’s Italian Restaurant
Sunlight streams in through the broad front windows of Bosco’s Italian Restaurant on a clear September day. The red and white checkered tablecloths of the dinner room are awash in late morning light. A faded color photo of Susan Bosco hugging her mom Nada, with a handwritten sticky note reading “In the beginning.” taped to its wooden frame, hangs b...