Close

Join your friends and family at the 18th annual Taste of Little Italy featuring the finest Italian food and wine as it returns to historic Little Italy in Cleveland on Sunday, September 20, 2015, 1:00 – 5:00 PM in the Holy Rosary Churchyard, 12009 Mayfield Road, Cleveland OH.   The event offers Italian food and wine, live entertainment, and...

1305

You don't expect to find a pasta dish that includes potatoes. For good reason too, because who needs to add more starch to a plate of starch? But then the dish lands on the table and you see that those potatoes are wispy little matchsticks, flash fried to a sunny golden brown and arranged like a crown of thorns around the fettucine noodles. More th...

876

In a community where one in every five people boasts Italian ancestry, where red sauce rules and bocce games draw crowds, there is no Little Italy.   Unlike many other American cities with large Italian populations — think New York, Boston, Providence, Cleveland, even Syracuse — Rochester no longer has a compact, identifiable neighborhood ce...

592

Italians were some of the first European explorers and settlers in California. Religious work and the search for new fishing grounds were initial reasons for Italians to explore what later became the thirty-first state, but their reasons for staying, expanded after arriving in California.   Though we often associate Italians in California wi...

952

Directed by Luchino Visconti Based on the Novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Opening Remarks by Prof. Santi V. Buscemi   Please join us for a special screening of Luchino Visconti's award-winning film, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, August 28th. The film re-creates, with nostalgia, drama, and opu...

856

People love to visit New York City. But tourists, especially those seeing Manhattan for the first time, often get sucked into expensive and overrated tourist traps.   Little Italy is one of those places where prices are a little high and the food is just alright. Too many souvenir shops and mediocre Italian restaurants is what tourists...

617

The last time Chazz Palminteri performed "A Bronx Tale" in Baltimore, he came away with a restaurant. It was during the 2009 national tour of his autobiographical, one-man show that Palminteri met the Vitale family, the Little Italy restaurateurs that would become his partners in Chazz: A Bronx Original, the Harbor East Italian restaurant that ope...

1462

The Little Italy Association of San Diego is proud to present the 3rd Annual Little Italy Holiday Toy Drive, benefiting the foster children of New Alternatives; a 501(c)(3) non-profit.   Join us in making a child's or teenager's holiday a little brighter. Bring an unwrapped toy to a participating business (Listed Below) or the Little Italy M...

756

By Ben Szmidt With the annual St. Anthony's Italian Festival just over a week away, this month's History Matters heads to the festival's home: Wilmington's Little Italy. In the late 19th and early 20th century, many Italians began immigrating to America to find a better life. Of those who came to the Mid-Atlantic many settled in a section of...

1066

On Tues., Jan. 6, Figli di San Gennaro (Children of San Gennaro), the nonprofit community organization that has been presenting New York City's annual Feast of San Gennaro since 1996, donated a total of $149,500, representing net proceeds after expenses, from the 2013 and 2014 feasts to Catholic education, churches and other community organizations...

1033