MGM Debuts Its Swanky Coastal Italian Restaurant This Week
Osteria Costa, a casino-based Italian restaurant specializing in dishes from the Amalfi Coast, lands at MGM National Harbor this Wednesday, October 24. The newcomer in the glass-encased atrium level fills a gap left behind by the January closure of celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson’s attempted D.C. venture. Osteria Costa, the opulent facility’s firs...
Ciao Francesco! (1962 – 2018)
Oggi è un giorno triste per tutti noi alla Italy-America Chamber of Commerce. Ieri se ne è andato, improvvisamente, il nostro amico e collaboratore Francesco Accolla. Aveva solo 56 anni. Francesco era un uomo di profonda sensibilità. Aveva tante passioni, dal jazz alla poesia, dall’arte contemporanea alla politica. Amava conversare e tanti di noi...
Sposalizio del Mare: Marriage to the Sea
"Save Venice" Boston Chapter Gala 2018 - Sposalizio del Mare: Marriage to the Sea. Friday, November 2, 2018, 7:00pm to 12:00am. The Harvard Club - 374 Commonwealth Ave - Boston, MA 02115. Tickets can be purchased here. Proceeds will allow the Boston chapter to restore, in honor of Jacopo Tintoretto’s 500th birthday, Saint Jerome Presenting Doge Pri...
The 2018 Bridge Book Award
Thursday, November 1 / 6–8pm. CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art - 421 Broome Street - 4th Floor - New York, NY 10013) is proud to host an evening celebrating the fourth edition of The Bridge Book Award, honoring 2018 Italian winners Luciano Funetta, for fiction, and Sandra Petrignani, for non-fiction. Maria Ida Gaeta, director of the Casa delle L...
Ambassador Vicini visits with Italian community of St. Louis
For the very first time, the Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, Honorable Caroline Vicini made a visit to St Louis for the region's largest annual international conference held at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton. This year's theme was Growing Global - The Political Economy of Trade. Over 750 people were in attendance including the l...
Il Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino da record, è il primo gruppo italiano folk a vincere l'Oscar della world music
Per la prima volta l'Italia è sul podio più alto: il Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino vince i Songlines Music Awards che lo designa quale miglior gruppo di world music al mondo. I Songlines Music Awards - ricorda una nota - sono l'equivalente musicale degli Oscar nella world music. Organizzati da Songlines, la rivista di settore più importante al mon...
Loyola to install new Italian Studies prof
The College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago will install Carla Simonini as the first Paul and Ann Rubino Endowed Professor in Italian American Studies on Nov. 4. The celebration will feature an inaugural address by Simonini and remarks by Fred Gardaphé, distinguished professor of English/Italian American studies at Queens College,...
Famed Italian Pizza Maker Gabriele Bonci is Coming to Miami
Miami isn’t exactly know for being a pizza city, but that all might be changing when Italian pizzaiolo Gabriele Bonci — the man behind Rome’s wildly popular Pizzarium — brings his restaurant Bonci (pronounced Bahn-chi) to Miami in early 2019. The Roman-style pizzeria, which already has two outposts in Chicago, will debut inside Cube Wynwood at 222...
Gianluca Busio, da Brescia al Kansas: l'italo-americano che a 16 anni segna in MLS
Nome e cognome non tradiscono le origini: Gianluca Busio, numero 20, classe 2002. Papà bresciano e tifoso dell'Inter, mamma californiana che a colazione cucina Pankakes, il suo piatto preferito prima di andare ad allenarsi. Lui, in compenso, ruba un po' dall'uno e un po' dall'altra, tant'è che conosce tutti i calciatori nerazzurri: "Mio padre è int...
Italian word of the day: 'Ottobrata'
Now's the perfect time – literally – to learn this seasonal word. If you're in Italy right now, you must have wondered: will summer ever end? Not any time soon, if centuries of experience are anything to go by. So accustomed are Italians to these sunny October days that they even have a word for them: ottobrata. The term refers to a period in O...
“Officina, D.C.’s Italian Culinary Wonderland, Now Open” at the Wharf
From a press release: “Nicholas Stefanelli Opens Officina, an Italian Culinary Mecca at The Wharf, D.C.’s Newest Neighborhood Featuring a curated marketplace, trattoria, year-round rooftop, and D.C.’s only Amaro Library Nicholas Stefanelli, chef and owner of D.C.’s Michelin-starred Masseria, opens Officina at The Wharf, joining a group of D.C.’s mo...
Tacoma Opera’s ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ boast costumes from famous collection
Tacoma Opera’s production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” is scheduled to open Oct. 26. In addition to a great story, music and sets, the production promises lavish costume design. “The costumes for our production of ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ are going to be absolutely stunning,” said Tacoma Opera Artistic Director Noel Koran. “They are being given to us by o...