‘I Dream to Travel’: Artist Francesco Clemente Conjures the Sea From His New York City House
While stay-at-home directives have plenty of people experiencing true solitude for possibly the first time in their lives—and going a bit mad as a result—being alone with one’s thoughts is the preferred state for many artists, who have found creative energy in their seclusion. Francesco Clemente, the Italian-born, longtime New Yorker famed for his...
New social distancing technology at Magazzino Italian Art
Magazzino Italian Art will be the first museum in the United States to adopt new social distancing technology to protect future visitors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Developed by Italian and American companies, this new technological device takes the guesswork out of social distancing by using radio waves to measure and maintain safe dista...
Epic, Exotic, Ethnic: From Racist Stereotypes to the Mainstream
Fri, 05/22/2020 - 5:00pm A Journey Through Italian American Literature with Anthony Tamburri (Dean, Calandra Institute, CUNY). The episode will be broadcast live on Casa's Facebook Page and website. In English. As part of an homage to the recently passed Italian American authors Vittoria Repetto and Joseph Tusiani, Stefano Albertini and Anthony Tam...
E Harlem's Rao's Raises Money For Catholic Schools Amid Pandemic
Longtime East Harlem Italian restaurant Rao's is offering New Yorkers a chance to win a reservation for four at the ultra-exclusive eatery in exchange for donations to support neighborhood Catholic schools. Rao's owner Frank Pellegrino Jr., who took the business over after his father Frank Pellegrino Sr. died in 2017, is working with Partnership Sc...
Who Can Say ‘No’ to Cuomo? His Top Aide, Melissa DeRosa
Competence is captivating. No need to tell viewers tuning in to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s daily media briefings. Many have been riveted by his plain talk in the face of a global pandemic. Others are increasingly focused on the woman usually seated at his left: the one who on a recent Thursday countered a reporter’s suggestion that New York had...
Silvio Impagliazzo of West Babylon: A local sports icon
At age 92, Silvio Impagliazzo worked the concession stand at West Babylon Senior High School’s homecoming football game last fall to volunteer his time before taking a seat to watch the on-field action with one of his sons. But what stands out for Paul Impagliazzo when he remembers that day with his father isn’t the game they saw but all the famili...
"Brooklyn Roses" captures the heartbeat of Italian-American family life and escape to simpler times
"Brooklyn Roses", a novel by Catherine Gigante-Brown. Brooklyn Roses follows the travails and triumphs of that loud, loving Italian-American family from Borough Park. The riveting story picks up more than a dozen years after The Bells of Brooklyn, in the turbulent late 1950s/early 1960s. It weaves an unforgettable tale that encompasses forbidden lo...
#ITALIANDIGITALTOWNHALL
Un’occasione per confrontarsi con i rappresentanti italiani della comunità medico-scientifica che lottano contro il Coronavirus. È il primo appuntamento dell'iniziativa digitale #italiandigitaltownhall, dedicata agli italiani impegnati in prima linea contro il Covid-19 a New York. All’incontro, promosso dal Consolato Generale d'Italia a New York in...
Bayside Hills Woman Celebrates 100th Birthday With Car Cavalcade
A Bayside Hills woman celebrated turning 100 with the socially-distanced birthday bash of a lifetime. Louise Ceci Jacobson, also known as Louisa or Louie, entered the centenarian club Sunday by partying the day away to the tune of a car cavalcade of friends and family circling her home, followed by lunch in her backyard. That wasn't all. Loved ones...
Organizers cancel Italian Heritage Festival due to COVID-19
You can add the Galbani Italian Heritage Festival to the list of summer events that will not happen in 2020. Organizers have canceled the two-day event, scheduled for July 18 and 19 in Niagara Square, due to COVID-19. "For the health and safety of our guests, vendors and board members it was essential to come to this decision," organizer Marco Scio...
Gaetano Barbieri of Bay Shore: He loved movies and told great stories
Gaetano Barbieri's family is much like many others on Long Island who traded their Brooklyn roots for suburban life. By the time Barbieri was a teenager, he and his family had left their President Street home and settled in Seaford, and Barbieri would graduate from Island Trees High School in 1958. Barbieri went on to earn both bachelor’s and maste...
Bravo Italiano Festival canceled, other events hold out hope at Watertown arena
Usually, each summer there's a number of great events put on at the Watertown Municipal Arena. But this year, some are canceling, while others hold out hope. For a weekend each summer, Italian food, music and people fill the Watertown Municipal Arena for the Bravo Italiano Festival. But this year, the Italian-American Civic Association has decided...