Our Lady of Mount Carmel to Celebrate Feast Day
Determined to carry on with tradition even during the coronavirus pandemic, leaders at the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel are moving ahead with plans to mark the church’s feast day with scaled-down celebrations. While there will be no procession of the Giglio along the streets of Williamsburg, the church will livestream a virtual Giglio...
Magazzino Italian Art reopens!
We are thrilled to announce that starting this Friday, July 10, 2020, we will begin welcoming the public back to the museum. We invite you to book a visit this summer at magazzino.art/booking. We have been working in close coordination with state, regional, and local guidelines of the phased reopening in the Mid-Hudson region to implement the high...
Columbus Circle statue: Why some want it to stay
The Christopher Columbus statue in Downtown Syracuse is still standing tall, despite requests from a local group calling on Mayor Ben Walsh to take it down. We’ve heard from both the group and the Mayor but there are also some people who want it to stay. The statue has changed the landscape of Syracuse since October 1934. This particular area would...
Inside Out: At 103, Frances Brigandi amazes, inspires and has a message: Wear a mask!
Frances Brigandi, known for her keen eye for fashion and interior design, celebrated her 103rd birthday with daughter Rosemary Klein and granddaughters Dr. Diane Klein and Dr. Christina Klein, who practice dentistry at Dynamic Dental in Great Kills, in her New Springville home. To celebrate, the awesome foursome indulged in an authentic Italian din...
107-Year-Old Julia Bizzarri Survives COVID-19
A week after Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as the 28th President of the United States, Julia Bizzarri was born in the Bronx on Mar. 13, 1913. In a curious twist of fate, in the same year that now, 107-year-old Bizzarri has astonishingly shown COVID-19 who’s boss, Wilson’s name is to be removed from Princeton University buildings, one of a number of m...
Don DeLillo e la New York che fuma sigarette, beve caffè e guarda il mondo
Anni cinquanta. Il sole estivo batte sul tetto delle auto in fila, da lontano si sente lo schiamazzo dei bambini, l’ottimismo senza complicazioni delle loro voci. Don DeLillo ha vent’anni ed è seduto all’ingresso del parcheggio del luna park del Bronx. Il suo compito è quello di controllare le macchine in fila facendo un fischio in caso di problemi...
The Plan To Transform Arthur Avenue Into A 100-Table Piazza
As Arthur Avenue settles into Phase 2 of reopening, the Bronx’s historic Little Italy has become something brand new: A piazza, complete with 100 tables set up on the sidewalks and into the street. Peter Madonia, chair of the Belmont Business Improvement District and the owner of Madonia Bakery, said it’s a plan he’s excited about for its own sake,...
The IWL Protests the Elimination of the NYS Columbus Day Holiday
The Italian Welfare League, a social service organization, supports the Italian-American community as it defends itself against discrimination in the battle to preserve the Columbus Day holiday. New York State Senator Jessica Ramos has proposed Bill S8553 which eliminates the Columbus Day holiday and replaces it with Indigenous People’s Day. Pleas...
Staten Island Nightlife in the pandemic: Alfresco by the water at Angelina’s | Pamela’s Food Service Diary
The Malerba family finally brings sit-down table service to the borough once again at Angelina’s Ristorante. The fine dining eatery in Tottenville celebrated its first night back in business since March 15 after the coronavirus crisis forced it to close. After all, the delivery-only and to-go formats did not translate well to the upscale Italian fo...
In Other Words... A Genius!
Tutti a Casa! dedicates an episode to the legacy of legendary director Federico Fellini (1920-1993), as seen through the eyes of NYU Professor of Film and Artistic Director of the Rome Film Festival Antonio Monda. Tutti a Casa! Live Chats About All Things Italian is the new radio-style, web-based talk show that Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and the...
Raphael: The Making of a Master
Over the course of his short but unprecedented career, Raphael painted the image of the Virgin and Child many times and in different iterations. In this lecture, Davide Gasparotto illustrates how Raphael was able to infuse new life into a traditional subject, exploring the artist’s creative process and his intense dialogue with contemporary painter...
Don’t smash Columbus and our history; build a better America instead
Claudia Tenney is the Republican and Conservative candidate for New York’s 22nd Congressional district and an attorney representing Oneida tribal leader Melvin Phillips.The iconoclasts are back. Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Francis Scott Key and dozens more must be canceled — centuries after they died. A strange hubris has...