Matilde Fava, Longtime Professor Known for Empathy and Decorum, Dies at 78
Matilde Fava, Undergraduate School of Education (UGE) ’69 and an adjunct professor of communication in the School of Professional and Continuing Studies (PCS) who served Fordham for more than 45 years, died peacefully at her home on March 1, 2021, the first day of her retirement. Fava was 78. The cause of her death was cancer. Fava was born on Dec...
Italian American Lecture Series: An Integration into Italy with Artist William Papaleo
Tuesday, March 16, 2021. 2:30 p.m. ET. This is a virtual event. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be sent a link to attend prior to the event. Please RSVP using the RSVP for this Event. New York born artist, William Papaleo has spent the last 35 years living and painting the beauty of Naples and Southern Italy and given attention t...
Italy wants Nivola statues back after NYC removal
Italy wants famous statues of horses sculpted by Sardinian artist Costantino Nivola and his American colleague Richard Stein back from New York after they were removed in the redevelopment of a playground under the Big Apple's Wise Towers. The statues have graced the playground since 1964. Nationalist League Senator Linetta Lunseu said she had cont...
Italian American One Voice Coalition Selects Josephine Maietta for “Festa Della Donna” Award for 2021
The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition (“IAOVC”), America’s largest independent Italian American anti-bias organization, has selected Cav. Josephine Maietta for its “Festa Della Donna” Award for 2021. In the United States, the month of March is recognized as Women’s History Month. And, March 8 of each year is celebrated as International Day of Wo...
"Good Morning in Heaven My King"
For decades, Tony Polito was the king of the Brooklyn tattoo scene, accommodating some 40 customers a day out of his shop, Old Calcutta. When he died in 2017, his wife, Bruni, took over his Instagram account and began to post daily messages to him, beginning every note with an iconic missive: “GOOD MORNING IN HEAVEN MY KING.” Here she explains what...
For Little Italy’s Survivors, the Pandemic Is Just the Latest Challenge
A famous photograph of Mulberry Street at the turn of the 20th century shows a neighborhood brimming with life. The street is packed with recent Italian immigrants, young and old. Carts and buggies crowd the streets like cars do today, with merchants selling products out the back. Produce stands are in front of buildings in the same way that outdoo...
Consolato Onorario a Rochester: il decreto in Gazzetta
È stato pubblicato in Gazzetta Ufficiale il decreto che eleva il vice Consolato onorario a Rochester (Usa) al rango di Consolato onorario. Firmato dal direttore generale per le risorse e l’innovazione della Farnesina, Renato Varriale, il decreto istituisce il consolato onorario, posto alle dipendenze del Consolato generale d'Italia a New York. La c...
Sons of Italy hosts weekly fish fry
Normally the village’s Sons of Italy chapter is the place to be on the first Friday of every month, as they host their fish fry. However, due to the start of the Lent season leading up to Easter, diners even have more to celebrate as it becomes a weekly occasion. Friday marked their inaugural weekly fry, where members cooked 220 lbs. of cod, four...
Lorraine Grillo is the new New York City's Senior Advisor for Recovery
The National Organization of Italian American Women wishes to congratulate Lorraine Grillo on her recent appointment, by Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio, as New York City's Senior Advisor for Recovery. Lorraine was NOIAW's 2018 Annual Luncheon Honoree. She is transitioning to this role as "Recovery Czar" from her long-held positions serving a...
Meet Marco Leona from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
This week we have the honor of meeting Marco Leona from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and share his incredible story and talent. To wind up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art must have been an interesting journey. Could you please tell us a little about yourself and the journey that brought you there. I’m a chemist. I studied chemi...
Tomb Raiders and the Italian Art Squad
For this episode of Tutti a Casa! Valentina Castellani hosts a conversation between Amy Whitaker and the author of Ruling Culture, Fiona Greenland. Through much of its history, Italy was Europe’s heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and sometimes plundered countless artworks and antiquities. This...
Danielle Mongelli’s new book “The Cure of the Heart” is an inspirational tome of poems that speak of one’s heartbreaks, trauma, and eventually overcoming them all
Danielle Mongelli, an Italian American writer, poet, comedian, and teacher; has completed her new book “The Cure of the Heart”: a heartbreaking autobiography told in poems about how she was forced to endure the restrains of her insecurities and sorrow during her upbringing that left her broken for several years, long before she learns to embrace th...