ENTERTAINMENT
By Elizabeth Large and Elizabeth Large,SUN RESTAURANT CRITIC | July 26, 2001
It's Italian and it isn't. The new Josephine's at 2112 Fleet St. is a mid-range Italian restaurant, says owner-chef Ellen Davis; but specialties include a filet Chesapeake - tenderloin with crab and basil hollandaise - and a crab cake. If Angelina's (the Harford Road Italian restaurant famous for its crab cakes) comes to mind, that's not surprising. Davis has worked in its kitchen, as well as the now-closed Stella's in Hampden. As for the Italian food, it ranges from lasagna and meatballs to torta rustica, capellini with red bell pepper pesto and stuffed shells with ricotta, mozzarella and Gorgonzola.
NEWS
By Michelle Wong and Michelle Wong,SUN STAFF | July 2, 1997
Eight Italian women and men gathered last weekend to share stories about the old country and their present lives in the United States. Conversations in Italian about work, family, church and food flowed as freely as the espresso they sipped from tiny cups.Every other month since January, as many as 15 people have gathered at the Glen Burnie home of Lisa Pitocco to socialize in Italian -- and to eat and drink.Over the winter, Pitocco, 42, received a call from Sister Vera Green at Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Glen Burnie.
BUSINESS
By New York Times | September 10, 1991
Citicorp is considering the sale of its consumer branch-banking businesses in Italy and France as part of its efforts to trim assets and increase its financial strength, news reports and bankers say.A trade publication, American Banker, reported yesterday that Italian bankers said that the Citicorp subsidiary in Italy had not been formally offered for sale, but that Citicorp officials had indicated they would listen to offers.The Italian subsidiary specializes in consumer and small-business banking through a network of 52 branches.
FEATURES
By Albert Mobilio and Albert Mobilio,Newsday | June 15, 1994
My wife and I were out with another couple recently, and we were talking about ethnicity. We realized that if our friends had a daughter (half Jewish-half Irish) and we had a son (half Italian-half Jewish) who married, our grandchildren would be a mish-mash of cultures, practically deracinated and stripped of any real heritage.That may be true, I said, thumping my chest, but they would have my name. What that name might be worth, in the face of eroding European ethnic identity, is precisely what Bill Tonelli sets out to discover in his sociological picaresque, "The Amazing Story of the Tonelli Family in America."
NEWS
By Amy P. Ingram and Amy P. Ingram,Contributing Writer | October 12, 1993
An ocean and a continent couldn't keep Paola Mainnetti, a 17-year-old Italian student, from 15-year-old Beth Carter.The two became instant friends in February while Beth, a sophomore from Severn High School, toured the schools and museums of Brescia, Italy, with her classmates as part of the Severn High Italian Exchange Program.Now Paola is touring the coffee shops and malls of Annapolis with Beth, the friend she calls "my sister."The exchange program is a "home-to-home, school-to-school partnership," said Doug Sassi, who coordinates the program with the Instituto Tecnico Commerciale Lunardi in Brescia.
NEWS
By John T. Finn | October 9, 2006
At parades, festivals and family gatherings across the country, Columbus Day is as much a celebration of Italian-American culture as of the European discovery of the New World - a day when "everybody is Italian." Yet many people, including some Italian-Americans, may be surprised to learn that Italians and their culture were not accepted in the United States until relatively recently. When my maternal grandparents came to the United States from Italy in the early 1920s, Italians, who were one of the largest immigrant groups, were widely considered to be among the least desirable.