Little Italy

In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, much of New York is grinding to a halt. Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an edict banning gatherings of more than 500 people. Broadway has gone dark, shutting down of one of the city’s iconic industries for a month, and arenas will sit empty.…

Little Italy landmark Da Mimmo goes back on the marketRead More

Little Italy landmark Da Mimmo goes back on the marketRead More

By Deborah DundasBooks EditorThu., March 12, 2020timer3 min. readWhen you want to hang out with the gangGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo is one I’ve been recommending lately. You’ll remember that Evaristo co-won the Booker Prize for this (along with Margaret Atwood for “The Testaments”) last November. We hear from…

This “gripping social history” (Publishers Weekly), with all the passion and pathos of a classic opera, chronicles the riveting first campaign against the death penalty waged in 1895 by American pioneer activist, Cora Slocomb, Countess of Brazzà, to save the life of a 20-year-old illiterate Italian immigrant, Maria Barbella, who…

The former royal highness who recently relocated to North America made a huge impression when he stopped for dinner in Gila Bend, southwest of Phoenix. Here’s how Little Italy honors that memorable meal. Prince Harry's dinner in 2011 at a restaurant in Gila Bend, Arizona, was a memorable meal. There's…

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History is not always what is seems—regardless of what even the most robust textbooks might say. Take, for example, the work of Rosalind Franklin: The British scientist whose 1952 research was integral to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but who had her research swiped by male…

Little Italy’s Pokirrito/RakiRaki electively shut its doors last year to reopen this year as the second outpost of The Yasai under executive chef Junya Watanabe. Since opening the first location in Kearny Mesa, Watanabe has extended the izakaya (small plate) menu and rolls have been refined in collaboration with new…

Credit: USGS Above: This map shows the Rose Canyon Fault that cuts through the heart of the city of San Diego, stretches across La Jolla and continues north along the coast. A magnitude 6.9 earthquake on San Diego's Rose Canyon Fault could damage 100,000 homes, cause widespread road and bridge…