Kerry-Lynne Demarinis

Opening the door into DeNicola’s Italian Restaurant is like opening the door into your grandmother’s kitchen. You are welcomed with a smile, invited to sit down, surrounded by loud conversation and laughter, and there are all those wonderful Italian aromas …

Heritage is a precious thing. From our parents and grandparents, we learn who we are and why our cultural identity is important.  Sharing family traditions and memories is crucial to forming a bond between old and new generations.   Unfortunately, …

As Italian-Americans, most of us have grown up hearing the stories of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents “coming over” from the old country. After years of hearing the same stories over and over, the memories become our own.  We can …

What is a genome? Few of us would be able to answer that question.  In short, a genome is all of a living thing’s genetic material. It is the entire set of hereditary instructions for building, running, and maintaining an …

According to the Travel Channel website, Portland, Oregon ranked as the number two cycling city in the United States in 2013.  Portland has long been a pioneer in cycling. In fact, no other city in the United States has more …

Traveling to a foreign country is easy to plan. You make your flight and hotel reservations and you visit all the famous places with all the other foreign travel- ers. You see everything you possibly can before heading back home …

If you are Italian, there is a very good chance you know the story of San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples.  A man of unwavering Christian faith, he was known for his generosity, especially to the needy. The Romans …

The Associazione Culturale Italiana di Portland is excited to announce the 2015 Italian Film Festival USA of Portland, running Friday, April 10 through Sunday, April 12. Sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation and the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration …

At the corner of NW 14th and Quimby stands Friendly House, the home of “La Scuola Italiana di Portland’s preschool”. Parents and preschoolers open the door and are instantly inside an Italian classroom; Italian children’s music is playing softly in …

On a recent autumn afternoon, a small group of people from the Amici d’Italia and the Vancouver USA Sons of Italy gathered at Maryhill Winery to share a few games of bocce, a potluck of antipasti, and some of the …