Welcome to the 45th annual celebration of Italian Heritage and Culture Month
Welcome to the 45th annual celebration of Italian Heritage and Culture Month. Each year, the Board of Directors of the Italian Heritage and Cultural Committee of New York, Inc., (IHCC-NY, Inc.) selects a new theme and then proceeds to publish a theme poster and publish its “Calendar of Events” for the annual October celebration. We encourage you to...
HELP SAVE SAN GENNARO!!!
If you are in the NYC area, PLEASE come out to support the Italian American community in NY’s historic Little Italy on Mulberry Street. The Archdiocese of New York has called for a 6PM MEETING on TUESDAY, MAY 4th, 2021 at the historic Most Precious Blood Church (113 Baxter Street in Manhattan’s Little Italy). These meetings usually don’t bode well...
Identities and Intimate Portraits in the Works of Stefano Porcini on Exhibit in NY
Stefano Porcini was born in the Province of Varese, a town poised midway between the natural beauty of the Alps and the metropolitan buzz of Milan, into a family that was passionate about culture, constantly surrounded by beauty: artists, architects, designers and humanists, among whom he spent his childhood and adolescence, experimenting with inno...
Here’s to Josephine, as she rounds the century mark. You may know her as ‘Grandma Meatballs.’
For Josephine DiDio’s 99th birthday last year, family members were only able to spend a few minutes outside her door to offer congratulatory greetings. But this year for her 100th, things changed. Family members were thrilled to gather in Italianissimo Restaurant for the birthday girl’s 100th celebratory dinner and extend to the new centenarian goo...
Vincent Graziano Wants You to Join “The Romeo Club.” It’s a Meal Readers Will Devour
Vincent Graziano has done it again. Having published his first work of fiction, Die Laughing, in 2009, and more recently The Family Jewels in 2018, the stand up comedian turned funeral parlor owner again borrows from memories of his youth in Little Italy and imagined scenarios only a funeral director could devise. While Die Laughing and The Family...
Brewster Italian American Club Does Annual Earth Day Clean-Up
Several members of the Italian American Club spent part of their Saturday in a community cleanup for Earth Day. The annual event always starts at the club building on Route 22 and spreads out from there for at least half-a-mile each way. "We do this as a community service and you know between that and our First Responders dinner we like to help out...
Made in Italy and Nation Branding
When: Wed, 05/05/2021 at 5:00pm - Carlo Marco Belfanti, Brescia University Author of Storia culturale del Made in Italy (2019, il Mulino) in conversation with Ennio Ranaboldo, CEO, Martin Bauer North America, Moderated by Stefano Albertini, NYU With the participation of students enrolled in his course Cultural Diplomacy: Theory, History, and Practi...
Daughter of Rochester mobster 'Sammy G' Gingello co-authors book remembering her father
When she was 14 years old, Gina Gingello wrote to the managing editor of the Democrat and Chronicle, answering the coverage that had painted her father solely as a mobster slain in a car bombing. Weeks after the April 1978 murder of Salvatore "Sammy G" Gingello, Gina wrote in the letter, "My Dad was a good loving father and a friend to me. We had t...
First St. Anthony’s Festival food pickup is May 8: No preorders, drive-thru only
St. Anthony’s Festival is offering curbside Italian sub sales on the second Saturday of each month from May through September of 2021. The next event is scheduled for Saturday, May 8th from 11am-2pm, or until gone. This time around, there is no pre-ordering process. It’s a PICK-UP ONLY event in the St. Anthony’s Church Parking Lot, at 50 Pomeroy St...
First Responder Friday honors PAPD Officer Marcus Ciserano
Congratulations to Police Officer Marcus Ciserano honored this week for 20 years of public service by the Columbia Association. Looking up his career, we can thank Port Authority Officer Ciserano for decades of service to the city. This will make you smile, he's a fan of our New York's famous band KISS. There's a picture of Marcus in uniform from w...
From Italy to the U.S., in Pictures and Words
Elizabeth Povinelli’s inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil, but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adige, in Italy—the region where her family's ancestral alpine village is located. Far more than a map hanging above the family television, the image featured colors and lines that held in place the memories and values fueling the...
How pizza and the word 'arrangiarsi' changed one man's life
Hofstra’s Italian American Lecture Series presented a film screening and commentary on “Arrangiarsi (Pizza ... and the Art of Living)” with director Matteo Troncone on Tuesday, April 13. ‘Arrangiarsi’ translates to overcoming obstacles, and it is the main theme of the film. The film is a documentary not only about the gastronomy of Italian culture,...