Italian Citizenship Event
Monday, March 25, 2019 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT. San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA 94133. Join our Citizenship staff at San Francisco Italian Athletic Club on March 25 at 5:30 pm. We will shed light on the newest regulation for obtaining Italian Citizenship by marriage The event is sponsored by Consulate Gene...
‘That’s the brotherhood’: Friends celebrate life of late John DiMarzio, former Monaca councilman, firefighter
Undoubtedly, the mood at the Monaca Turners on Sunday will be bittersweet. Firefighters at Monaca No. 1 Volunteer Fire Department are hosting a spaghetti dinner from noon to 6 p.m. to benefit John DiMarzio, a former member, who had been on kidney transplant waiting lists at two Pittsburgh hospitals for almost two years. DiMarzio, 61, in end-stage k...
La Ferrovia's low-key Italian cuisine a 25th Street favorite
The unpretentiousness of La Ferrovia Ristorante fits in perfectly on Ogden’s Historic 25th Street. No worries about ambience, aura or atmosphere. Just dig in for an array of southern Italian cooking that’s been keeping Junction City diners satisfied for 31 years. The extensive menu leads off with two cannellone dishes, followed by a variety of chic...
Caffè Letterario Sunday March 10th Welcomes Director Dina Fiasconaro
Sunday MARCH 10, 2019 3:00 PM. Italian Cultural Center of Maryland, 315 Homeland Southway, Baltimore, MD. For this March Caffè Letterario at the Italian Cultural Center of Maryland we welcome Director Dina Fiasconaro. Please RSVP at [email protected] Fiasconaro is a Baltimore screenwriter and film director. Her feature documentary, Mom...
Italian American Ladies Auxiliary marks 95 years
Toy donations. Christmas baskets. Scholarship giving. This doesn't sound like the normal activities of a social club, but a social club is still how many members of the Italian American Ladies Auxiliary of Kenosha, who celebrated their 95th anniversary Thursday, describe themselves. The auxiliary, part of the Italian American Club at 2217 52nd St....
A Look Back At 'The Godfather,' With Mario Puzo And Francis Ford Coppola
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Mario Puzo's "The Godfather." A new edition has just been released with an introduction by Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola and Puzo co-wrote the screenplays for...
Feast of St. Joseph Tied to the Heart of Italian Traditions and Faith
We’re in the middle of March and for Italians, March means a few things. For one thing, we’re in Lent, so chances are, Catholics have Easter on their minds. But before that, we’re looking forward to celebrating the Feast of St. Joseph, or La Festa San Giuseppe, in Italian. Celebrated on March 19th, the feast honors Joseph, husband to the Virgin Mar...
A more “objective” look at the Italian financial markets to reveal investments opportunities
Nowadays, investors perceive Italy to be more a source of risk than an opportunity owing to its chronic problems of sluggish GDP growth, high public debt, low productivity and a banking system that is beleaguered by a high NPE burden. However, if we take a closer look at the Italian scenario from the perspective of mid-sized companies, the overall...
Early Music in Italy: from the Trecento to the Baroque with the Folger Consort
Wednesday, March 27, 2019. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT. Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St NW, Washington, DC 20008 Join us for a program organized in collaboration with the Folger Consort of Washington DC as we take a closer look at the history of music in Italy from the 1300s to the late 1600s. Robert Eisenstein, Artistic Director at the Folger Conso...
From 1880 to Today: The Italian population in Buffalo
As late as the 1940s, newspaper stories written about Buffalo’s Italian population were painted with wild strokes of exotic color. “Off in a section of the city where the rays of the sun, on a bright day, glisten down upon dilapidated housetops and seek their way into narrow streets and by-ways with which the place abounds, are colonized a people i...
Chef Tony Gargano’s Osteria Bigolaro in Geneva, Illinois to Participate in Baconfest Chicago 2019
Tony Gargano, chef and owner of trendy Osteria Bigolaro in Geneva, Illinois, is pleased to announce his restaurant will be participating in Baconfest Chicago on Saturday, April 6, 2019, from 11:00 – 3:00 pm. The event, which is eleven years strong, partners with over 140 of the Chicago area’s hottest chefs, mixologists, brewers, artisan bacon-maker...
Laura Mattioli, arte milanese a New York: «Lavoriamo per i musei di domani»
Quando Laura Mattioli ripercorre il suo passato ha uno sguardo attento. Ogni aneddoto che racconta è come se lo rivivesse nell’istante in cui lo ricorda. Nata a Milano, una vita immersa nell’arte, a quasi 70 anni ha ricostruito la sua quotidianità a New York. E oggi è alla guida del CIMA, il Center for Italian Modern Art di Manhattan, di cui è fond...