NIAF Supports the Life and Works of Mother Cabrini
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) supports the life and works of Saint and Sister Francesca Xavier Cabrini, also known as Mother Cabrini. America’s first ordained saint, Mother Cabrini was summoned by the Pope to help the flood of Italian immigrants pouring into America in 1889. While in New York City, she opened 67 social service age...
Il Gei ricorda il suo presidente Lucio Caputo con intervento Amb. Varricchio
Alla presenza dell’ambasciatore d’Italia negli Stati Uniti Armando Varricchio il GEI (Gruppo Esponenti Italiani) ha celebrato lunedì la memoria di Lucio Caputo, per oltre 25 anni, presidente dell’organizzazione, scomparso nel giugno scorso. Alla Colazione per ricordare Lucio Caputo hanno partecipato la moglie Luisa il figlio Giorgio e un folto grup...
IAP 108: “’A Festa ‘e tutte ‘e feste’” A behind the scenes look at the Feast of San Gennaro in New York's Little Italy
It’s mid-September in The Big Apple, and the air is filled with the smell of sausage and peppers and fresh frying zeppole, because ‘a festa ‘e tutte ‘e feste’—’The Festival of All Festivals’ has arrived! For eleven days each September, thousands descend on Mulberry Street in Manhattan’s Little Italy for the Feast of San Gennaro, and this week, Ross...
BWW Review: MAMBO ITALIANO at Westchester Broadway Theatre Is An Italian Feast for the Eyes and Ears
Mambo Italiano, at Westchester Broadway Theatre (WBT) through Sept. 29, is an ambitious, musically-packed, and checkered affair, which also describes the motif of the stage floor and the tablecloths. (For tickets: (914) 592-2222; BroadwayTheatre.com Based on a Canadian movie, which in turn was based on an autobiographical play by Steve Galluccio, i...
Here Are The Big Events You Can Still Catch At Little Italy’s Feast Of San Gennaro!
The calzones and cannolis are already flying in Manhattan’s Little Italy this weekend – but it’s not too late to get in on all the fun! The annual San Gennaro festival began on Thursday. The 11-day celebration salutes the patron saint of Naples and is expected to welcome over two million visitors to Little Italy’s famous Mulberry Street – coming fo...
Committee for a Cabrini statue “America's First Social Worker” & a woman who shaped NYC
U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm’s blazing trail as the first black woman elected to congress and first black women to run for president earned her the merits of a monument from the She Built NYC city government initiative of Public Surveys for the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers. She is among seven others chosen so far. T...
Three Bordighera Press Writers— Kathy Curto, Maria Terrone, and Rita Esposito Watson—Read from Their Works
Tuesday September 24 2019, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036. Kathy Curto’s memoir Not for Nothing: Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood (2018) is her exploration of identity that “takes on the beauty, pain, tenderness, cruelty, passion, and love that often coexist in a...
Museum in Little Italy taking shape
Like so much else in New York City, the new Italian American Museum now under construction in Manhattan got its start in Queens. As Dr. Joseph Scelsa, the founder and driving force behind the IAM, likes to point out, he got the idea and laid most of the groundwork for the museum while working at Queens College. “The idea was to show visitors that w...
11 Settembre: la cerimonia in Consolato a New York
"Nel 18° anniversario dei tragici attentati dell'11 settembre, ci stringiamo al popolo e al governo americano, cui ci lega una profonda e storica amicizia, onorando la memoria delle vittime e rinnovando l'impegno per la pace e la sicurezza". Così il ministro degli Affari Esteri, Luigi Di Maio, in un messaggio diffuso ieri, nell’anniversario dell’at...
MPCA’s Columbus Day Parade route once again shortened
One of the borough’s biggest parades has been forced to shorten its route - again. The length of the upcoming 43rd annual Bronx Columbus Day Parade is being reduced for the second time in ten years. This year’s parade, hosted by the Morris Park Community Association and its parade committee, will take place on Sunday, October 13, beginning at noon...
The Secret of Verdi’s ‘Otello’ and ‘Falstaff’? His Publisher
The pair of operatic masterpieces that capped Verdi’s career almost didn’t happen. His “Aida” had its premiere in December 1871, and the great composer, then just 58, wondered what to do next. One thing was certain: He didn’t have much appetite to return to the opera house, as he discovered when he involved himself in some stagings of his work. “Pe...
After 9/11, Venice Feted Firefighters. The Party Is Still Going
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Daniel Nigro was chief of operations for the New York Fire Department. By the end of the day, after 343 firefighters had died, including Peter J. Ganci Jr., the department chief, he was in charge. Mr. Nigro immediately became a public figure for collective grief. “We could see from the pictures that he was sad,” sa...