Cinema Italian Style brings the best in Italian contemporary film to Seattle
The dark days and rainy nights so common to the Pacific Northwest in November are tailor-made for movie-going. Seattle's popular Italian film festival, Cinema Italian Style, could not come at a better time. Now in its 8th season, Cinema Italian Style, which runs November 10-17, features the very best in Italian contemporary film. Presented...
New Italian eatery to open near Las Sendas
Another Italian eatery is preparing to open in the recently closed Anzio Landing restaurant space in Mesa. Pacino's, at Power and McDowell roads, will serve contemporary Italian fare with "a little bit of Hollywood," says owner Frank Spaccarelli. He and his wife, Alicia, have moved to Mesa from California, where they previously opened, operat...
Beauties of Italy
The Arizona American Italian Club located at 7509 N. 12th St., Phoenix will host the Fourth "Beauties of Italy" (Le Bellezze d' Italia Quarto) Charity Italian Car Show on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. This year, the show will celebrate 100 years of Maserati and the return of Alfa Romeo to the U.S. after two decades. Alfa Romeo & Fiat of Sco...
A new Italian film series, holiday movies and more
by Doug Knoop Tickets are on sale now for "A Passion for Beauty: Cinema Italian Style," a new film series at the Seattle Art Museum. The series kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8 with "Ossessione/Obsession," Luchino Visconti's 1942 take on "The Postman Always Rings Twice." The series plays select Thursdays through March 19, when it closes with...
Harry Merlo, last of the great timber chiefs, dies at 91
Timber entrepreneur Harry Merlo, whose larger-than-life career was marked by great highs and lows, died Monday, Oct. 24. He was 91. The longtime Portland resident headed Louisiana-Pacific Corp. for more than two decades back when the timber industry was still the most powerful force in Oregon's economy. He played a pivotal role in bringing...
Invaluable Italian Books Grace the University of Utah
By Mauro Battocchi If you're in Utah over the next weeks, make sure to stop by the University of Utah's Willard Marriot Library for a first-hand look at ancient Italian books and manuscripts. La Parola Scritta: XVI Centuries of Italian Culture in Ink celebrates Italian contributions to world history and culture as we move into the final months of...
Neighborhood Italian: Chef Marc Sgrizzi holds it down for the little guy
Pink sauce and punches. My first meal at Parma involved both, because Chef Marc isn't one to stay in the kitchen. The sauce, a luscious potion of imported tomatoes, a touch of basil and fresh cream, made simple cheese ravioli sing. As for the punches, the third-generation Italian was a Golden Gloves champion back in Miami in the '80s, so w...
Zoom into Italian Design and Photography at the BAM in Bellvue, WA
If you're in the Northwest, don't miss the exhibition "Zoom: Italian Design and the Photography of Aldo and Marirosa Ballo" at the Bellvue Arts Museum (BAM) in Washington State. This gorgeous exhibition, which was organized by the Vitra Museum of Design in Germany and brought to Washington by Italian citizen Stefano Catalani the Director of Art, Cr...
Chazz is back! Palminteri’s solo show ‘A Bronx Tale’ is at Smith Center
In 85 emotional, jam-packed minutes tonight, stage and film actor Chazz Palminteri will play 18 characters nonstop in his one-man show "A Bronx Tale." It's a powerful tour de force that's mesmerized audiences previously in Las Vegas at the Mirage and the Venetian. Now it's at the prestigious Reynolds Hall in the Smith Center for the Perfor...
Here Comes the Italian Silicon Valley Festival on January 31
by Mauro Battocchi A new flower in the current "Italian Spring" in San Francisco will blossom on Sunday January 31, 2016, at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto (3921 Fabian Way): the first ever Silicon Valley Italian Festival. Sponsored by all stripes of the Italian community, from the Italian Consulate General in San F...
Salute Trattoria Italiana: The Next Italian Standout in Vegas
by Ryan Simoneau With so many new restaurants constantly opening up on the Las Vegas Strip, it's all to easy to overlook some real gems that are located just off The Strip. The upscale Red Rock Casino Resort in nearby Summerlin has quietly overhauled its restaurant offerings over the last couple of years. Now then casino has just...
The Crankiest Italian Restaurateur in Seattle
My boyfriend likes really bad Chinese food—the beige and greasy kind, served in karaoke bars and bowling-alley card rooms. So early on in our relationship, when he told me he wanted to try a teeny-tiny Ravenna Italian restaurant, with a cartoonish red and green sign that gives off a Mama-Mia-You'll-Love-Our-Spaghetti! vibe, I was quick to...