International Neapolitan pizza chain opens first U.S. location in downtown Dallas
An international pizza concept is opening its very first location in America in Dallas: Called 400 Gradi, it's a Neapolitan-style pizza concept that will open at 2000 Ross Ave., the glitzy new vertical mixed-use development which will boast retail space, residential living, and a boutique hotel. A spokesman for 2000 Ross confirmed that 400 Gradi wo...
Oklahoma City Museum of Art celebrating holidays with classic film series 'Christmas Italian Style'
This holiday season, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, is presenting "Christmas Italian Style," a curated, 14-film series spanning nearly seven decades of Italian film history. The series launches Thursday and continues through Dec. 30, according to a news release. “'Christmas Italian Style' is our largest holiday series to date,” s...
When barbarians ruled the Big Easy
It was nearly midnight on Oct. 15, 1890, as David Hennessy, the young New Orleans police chief, walked home in a drizzle after a late meeting of the police board. Hennessy was without his usual armed escort as he approached the Basin St. house he shared with his widowed mother. The chief had use for bodyguards. In New Orleans, he was the face of...
Il documentario ‘Dallas in Prizzi’ del siciliano Luca Vullo premiato al West Texas Film Festival
Dal Texas un riconoscimento per Dallas in Prizzi: il documentario diretto dal regista siciliano Luca Vullo e prodotto dallo psichiatra americano Dave Atkinson, sull’esperienza di contaminazione culturale tra la Sicilia e il Texas, è stato premiato come Best Documentary Film al West Texas Film Festival di Odessa. La giuria della manifestazione cinem...
Gymnast Christina Desiderio
Eighteen-year-old gymnast Christina Desiderio says competing at the 2016 Olympic trials after earning a spot twice on the U.S. national team was by far the highlight of her career. “19,000 people, not a seat empty! Two days that I will never forget,” she says. “I worked for 10 years of my life to try to make it to the 2016 Olympics,” she says. “Tha...
Bat City Gelato brings Italian flair to Northwest Austin shopping center
When Mary Dodson and her husband, Brian, first took interest in opening a gelato shop in Northwest Austin, they knew they wanted to learn from the best. The two traveled to North Carolina and Italy for gelato-making courses, and in August they opened Bat City Gelato at 6301 W. Parmer Lane, Ste. 503, with an Italian serving counter and kitchen equip...
Amanda Pascali Invites Listeners to Follow Love, Resistance and Truth on Still It Moves
Maybe you don’t recognize it, but Amanda Pascali says there’s a love song at the heart of any good political song. “I like to think of my music, especially the political songs, as more of an internal journey than an external one. A lot of folk musicians think they have some duty to speak on issues of human rights and, during this period, immigratio...
Cirque Italia Water Circus performs under tent adjacent to South Plains Mall
Cirque Italia, the first traveling Italian Water Circus, will perform Thursday through Sunday under a large blue and white tent outdoors, located west of the South Plains Mall, 6002 Slide Road, between Premiere Cinemas and Sears. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday; and 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Early...
The Rockets Take Over Giuseppe Zanotti for P.J. Tucker’s Sneaker Launch
THE GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI BOUTIQUE in River Oaks District is already small, but it felt positively cramped Sunday night when some of Houston’s biggest—and tallest—stars came out for the Urchin Rocks sneaker launch. The new special-edition sneaker is a collaboration between the famed Italian luxury designer and Houston Rockets forward P.J. Tucker, a self...
An Italian Poet In Texas. Exclusive Interview With Victoria Surliuga
Victoria Surliuga is Associate Professor of Italian Studies, Italian Program Coordinator and World Cinema Coordinator in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University. She has studied Comparative Literature at Mount Holyoke College and holds an M.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers Universit...
Italian restaurant Giuseppe’s serves up rich family recipes
In a wave of energy, Giuseppe Brownell strides in from the kitchen. His Italian accent overlays each story about his upbringing in Umbria, a city located in central Italy. Brownell is an Italian immigrant-turned-restaurant owner and the mastermind behind Giuseppe’s Italian Restaurant on Locust Street. Nestled inside of a historic Victorian home, G...
Gnocchi heaven: Making dumplings the Italian way
"I don’t know anybody on the planet who’s as impassioned about gnocchi as I am,” Christine Hickman laughed ruefully one evening in her well-appointed passive solar kitchen on the north side of Santa Fe. “There’s got to be. But I don’t know who would write a whole cookbook on it.” Hickman was referring to her new culinary tome Gnocchi Solo Gnocch...