It's official! Pope Francis announces 2015 visit to US
Pope Francis on Monday officially announced that he will visit the U.S. in September 2015, including a visit to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. "I wish to confirm, if God wills it, that in September of 2015 I will go to Philadelphia for the Eighth World Meeting of Families," he announced at Vatican City's Synod Hall Nov. 17...
Major new installation “Unframed – Ellis Island” now open
November marks the 60th anniversary of the closing of the Ellis Island immigration facility. From 1892 until the center's closing in 1954, the small island in New York harbor served as the official entry and processing point for over 12 million immigrants. It has been estimated that over 40 percent of Americans can trace their ancestry through Elli...
IT and US: From Philadelphia to Città della Pieve to The World!
WTI Magazine #49 2014 December, 10Author : Karen Lauria Saillant Translation by: "Tutti gli uomini sono per natura egualmente liberi e indipendenti." With light streaming through the majestic Palladio window of Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson turned these words of his Italian friend, Philip Mazzei, into the heart of The Declarati...
Mary Jo Gagliano (Author of "La Storia: Birmingham's Italian community")
It is known that millions of Italian immigrants went to the big cities on the two coast: but some of them spread all over the United States, looking for a place to start a new life. Those who went to smaller and less known places, in smaller but not less important communities, had an experience that is similar but at the same time different than th...
Gayle’s Italian Market opens in downtown Salem
I grew up in what I think is a typical Italian-American family, with big feasts on Sundays and holidays. My uncle owned and operated Gabrielle Macaroni, a company that made a variety of pastas with machinery he imported from Italy. He sold his pastas to several Italian specialty markets and restaurants. Going to the Italian market as a chi...
Jazz, gli italo-americani nella storia
Il jazz, è risaputo, nasce a New Orleans in Louisiana agli inizi del secolo; nasce dal ragtime (che si suonava fin dagli ultimi anni dell'800), dal blues, dagli spirituals, dalle ballate americane dell' '800, e infine dagli emigrati italiani e dai loro figli che avevano raggiunto New Orleans, che agli inizi del secolo era diventata un centro di rac...
Viaggio nella lingua italiana d'America di oggi e di ieri
Si avvicina il traguardo dell'Italian American Country tour, e siamo in procinto di toccare la terza e ultima costa del continente. La prima è stata, naturalmente, New York. La seconda New Orleans, approdo per molti emigrati che non videro mai Ellis Island, arrivando direttamente qui. L'ultima è San Francisco, che abbiamo preso via terra "navigando...
Italian beef sandwich shop lands in Addison, with support from Da Bears coach Mike Ditka
by Sarah Blaskovich You've probably heard us say that Austin restaurants seem to be infiltrating North Texas. (See Tacodeli, Torchy's Tacos, Uchi, Hopdoddy.) We're now seeing Chicago restaurants make their way here, too. Geno's East is reportedly heading to Arlington, and Al's Italian Beef just opened in Addison. Al's claims it's the crea...
A New Decade for ILICA, Making Italian Language and Culture Global
The Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance (ILICA) is a not for profit foundation dedicated to the promotion of the Italian language as an instrument of understanding and study of a culture in continuous evolution, directed at not only Americans of Italian origin, but all those who share an interest in learning the Italian language as a key to un...
New York Festival of Song Presents 'Bel Canto/Can Belto' for Emerging Artist Series, Exploration of Italian Song
The New York Festival of Song will be presenting Bel Canto/Can Belto as a part of its Emerging Artist Series and exploration of Italian song. The show marks NYFOS’s seventh annual residency at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Bel Canto/Can Belto will be an exploration of Italian song. Five young artists will take the a...
Russo’s Restaurants Targets Regional Growth throughout Greater Memphis Area
Russo’s Restaurants, the founders of dining concepts that include Russo’s New York Pizzeria and Russo’s Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen, announced today plans to significantly enhance the brands’ footprint in the Greater Memphis Area in order to continue expansion into key markets. Demonstrating the excitement around the brand, Russo’s kicked o...
St. Joseph’s Altar dedicated to Greg Genco
By Randy Hammons The family of the late Greg Genco said they were more than grateful to the Italian-American Club for dedicating the St. Joseph's Altar in his memory this past weekend. The Altar was set up at the B & C Hall on Cumberland Street for viewing on Friday and Saturday. Those chosen to represent the Saints at the Altar we...