Tony Bennett shares five favorite duet partners, and the dream artist that got away
At 91, Tony Bennett is not just the dean of crooners, he’s the king of duets. Bennett, who began his career shortly after fighting in Europe during the final year of World War II, spent much of his first 40 years in the recording industry being called the “heir apparent” to Frank Sinatra among jazzy pop singers. And, like Sinatra with his Rat Pack,...
New Restaurant Alert: Italian Restaurant Mille Lire Is Open in Oak Lawn
At the busy intersection of Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs, The Centrum building has been in the midst of major renovations. As part of those renovations, the Oak Lawn building will get several new restaurants. Locations of local burger joint Pints & Quarts and local coffee shop Mudsmith are scheduled to open soon, and Mille Lire, a new Italian restaur...
The Complicated History of the Christopher Columbus Statue
This month, the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers will make its recommendation: should the Columbus monument in Columbus Circle stay? Or it should come down? The commission is evaluating all public art on city-owned land, but the Columbus monument is one of a handful that has sparked controversy; some are calling for t...
Disastro di Mononongah, ricordati in America i minatori morti
A distanza di 110 anni dal disastro minerario di Mononongah le vittime della piu’ grande tragedia dell’emigrazione italiana sono state ricordate anche a Washington grazie all’impegno di Padre Ezio Marchetto, dell’associazione Abruzzo Molise ‘Heritage Society", presieduta da Maria D’Andrea e dell’Ambasciata Italiana di Washington, rappresentata dal...
Meet the Godfather of Gourmet Truffles
This year, the price of white truffles ballooned to $3200 a pound in select U.S. markets. The primary driver of the price increase (more than double the 2016 average) was a lackluster growing season that deprived the underground fungus of the cooler, damper temperatures it needs to thrive. But even when supply is less scarce, tartufo bianco from th...
Marco Gallotta e l’arte di creare bellezza intagliando la carta
L’espressione artistica ha mille sfaccettature e la si può trovare ovunque, in un parco, in un disegno, in un ritaglio o nell’ allestimento di un locale. Marco Gallotta, classe ‘73 di origini salernitane, che vive a New York dal 1990, ha trovato la sua in una tecnica antica e allo stesso tempo completamente nuova perché lui reinventata: l’arte di...
Coastal Italian Seafood Is Apparently the Next Big Thing in West Hollywood
Casey Lane’s upcoming Viale dei Romani plays a familiar tune Things are heating up at Viale dei Romani, the new Italian restaurant by chef Casey Lane inside the La Peer Hotel in West Hollywood. And, at least according to one Craigslist post, the restaurant is going to be in very good company. Viale dei Romani is being billed in the ad — which, inci...
In Italia: A Renaissance Christmas From Venice, Naples & Beyond 2016 - Friday December 22nd At 9AM
In the sixteenth-century, the splendor of the Renaissance blossomed across Italy as a new Holy Roman Empire stretched its wings from the Urals to the Atlantic. This special brings listeners wonderful sixteenth-century Christmas music from the Venetian world of Giovanni Bassano and Gioseffo Zarlino, moving westward to the Milan of Franchinus Gaffur...
Abbiocco’s Italian dishes aim to put diners in ‘food coma’
Good food runs in Rose Brutico Fazio’s family, but she still never believed she’d own her own restaurant one day. As the granddaughter of the original owners of Brutico’s restaurant in Old Forge, she learned treasured family recipes for sauce and meatballs from her uncle and relatives. When Fazio’s own children were young and she made the sauce for...
At the Giro d’Italia — the Tour of Italy — cycling back to joyfulness
Even if I hadn’t ridden my bike 191 miles on roads that climbed 23,850 vertical feet in the past four days, my quads would have found the flight of steps up to the podium of the Giro d’Italia — the Tour of Italy — steep. Still in my cleated cycling shoes, which are ideal for riding but not the best for walking, I ascend the galvanized steel treads...
This pizza is made from a 1,000-year-old recipe
The best pizza in Italy? It’s in New York City, of course. Well, officially, it’s in Southern Italy — either in pizza king Naples or in Tramonti, a tiny coastal town that gives its big-city neighbor a run for its dough. But southern Manhattan has the next-best thing at Tramonti La Pizza pizzeria, on Saint Mark’s Place. There, chef Giovanni Vittorio...
Christmas in the Italian Language: The Original Santa Claus
In some parts of Italy the feast of San Nicola, patron saint of Bari, ushers in the Christmas season (stagione natalizia) with the giving of gifts (regali) on the eve or morning of December 6, his onomastico (name’s day). Although many stories of San Nicola’ s life may be mythical, he did inspire the figure of a beloved old man—whether he’s known...