Humble beginnings for both Jerry, Bryan Colangelo
It was 10 a.m. on a typical warm May morning, and Jerry Colangelo cruised down North Central Avenue in his all-black Mercedes-Benz with tinted windows. He's listening to faint music by Frank Sinatra on the Siriusly Sinatra SiriusXM Radio channel. "I always have Sinatra on," Colangelo said. "The Italian neighborhood [near] Chicago I'm...
Saints and pinups: personal shrines of Palermo – in pictures
In 2014, Emma Grosbois visited Palermo in Sicily to photograph the deeply personal shrines made by locals, paying respects to the dead as well as the living. She describes them for us: 'Here we have a minimalist style of shrine in a fruit and vegetable shop. The owner said: "These images represent the people dearest to us, those who I like to see h...
Italian wine: The many styles of Lambrusco
WTI Magazine #81 2016 July 15Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com Translation by: You may be familiar with Lambrusco as the cheap Riunite sparkling sweeter red, but gosh is there much more to it than that. Lambrusco hails from the Emilia Romagna region and more specifically from the flatlands of Modena and Re...
Italy researchers 'switch off' heart disease gene
Italian researchers have discovered the gene for arteriosclerosis and devised a treatment to "switch it off" and prevent heart disease. The gene is responsible for producing a protein that in turn produces oxidant molecules that damage the walls of the heart, veins and arteries. The discovery was made by a team from the Life Sciences Institut...
R.I.'s Nick Albanese draws on Italian roots for one-man show
by Channing Gray In the two decades since Nick Albanese got a theater degree from the University of Rhode Island, he's tried his hand at standup, even started a theater group doing one-act plays. But he seems to have found his niche with a one-man show about growing up Italian in Providence's North End. He opened "The Last Sicilian" l...
The 14 Italian piazzas that every traveler should see
Italian piazzas, or squares, are the beating hearts of every Italian town and city. They can be big or small, intimate or dramatic, humble, opulent, old, new and everything in between. In fact, sometimes a piazza isn't a square at all (see: the Piazza del Campo in Siena, among others). What all Italian piazzas have in common is their civic...
Coffee and solidarity, an Italian idea
In times of hardship Italians can renounce to many things, but coffee is not among them. This is the spirit that animated the practice of leaving a "suspended coffee" or caffé sospeso in Italy. This habit developed in Naples during World War II and then rapidly expanded throughout the country. People would go to coffee shops and pay a coff...
Senior Care Ministry of Princeton celebrates service with ‘A Taste of Italy’
The Senior Care Ministry of Princeton will be celebrating over 30 years of community service with A Taste of Italy fundraiser dinner and wine tasting at Tre Piani Restaurant, Thursday, Nov. 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. This year's event will honor Ray Wadsworth, Carol Olivieri and Dorothea's House. The Master of Ceremonies will be Tom Murray, one of Po...
Owners of Matt & Marie's Italian Sandwich Shop to Open New Concept
The duo behind Matt & Marie's, a Philadelphia-based Italian sandwich concept, will open a fourth restaurant concept — and their third this year alone — right across the street from their original restaurant. Matt Sapolsky and Marie Capp in June 2014 opened the first outpost of Matt & Marie's near Logan Square, followed by two more locations in Rit...
Fucsia Nissoli: I miei impegni tra la Comunità italiana in USA
Il 15 ottobre scorso, mi sono recata a Washington D.C. per partecipare alla riunione di coordinamento consolare presso la sede dell'Ambasciata italiana. All'incontro, introdotto da S.E. l'Ambasciatore Varricchio, hanno preso parte, assieme a me, le rappresentanze della Comunità italiana in USA (dott.ssa Mangione, dott. Arcobelli, i Presidenti dei...
Showcasing New Jersey Artists
November 12 @ 2:30 pm - 7:30 pm. $15. Advanced Registration Required by Tuesday, November 8th! Zimmerli Art Museum - 71 Hamilton St. - New Brunswick, NJ 08901 The New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission (NJIHC) is proud to invite you to its 13th Annual Congress, "Showcasing New Jersey Artists," on Saturday, November 12th. The 2016 Co...
Italian Food is On the Way to Takoma Park
by Missy Frederick A new Italian restaurant is on the way to Takoma Park, with plans to open early next year. The new Trattoria da Lina will have seating for 55 people, according to a media alert from the Old Takoma Business Association. The restaurant is from owner Marcello Minna. It will serve a variety of pasta dishes, plus steaks, fish en...