Paolo Busti Cultural Foundation names eight candidates for 2019, scholarship dinner is June 12
The Paolo Busti Cultural Foundation Annual Scholarship Dinner will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12th, at Terry Hills Restaurant in Batavia. The Foundation welcomes eight candidates this year, seven from Genesee County schools and one from Wyoming County. The family of Vincent Gautieri, also offers a scholarship for members of the Foundation...
Open Roads al Lincoln Center parte fortissimo con “La paranza dei bambini”
Open Roads torna al Lincoln Center di New York dal 6 al 12 giugno 2019, presentando una selezione di film e documentari italiani della stagione cinematografica appena trascorsa, oltre a un classico restaurato, La commare seccadi Bernardo Bertolucci, un omaggio al grande maestro scomparso lo scorso novembre. Tra le numerose opere presentate spicca q...
La Commedia di Dante in Italiano
Wednesday June 5, 5:30 pm. Sponsored by John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College/CUNY. 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, Manhattan, NY. Admission: free; open to the public Contact: Dante in Italiano 212 966-3245 danteinitalianonyc@yahoo.com The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College/CUNY is hosting a group...
IASA Long Island Regional Chapter Annual Luncheon
Saturday June 1, 12:00 - 4:00 pm. The Pompei Restaurant, 401 Hempstead Avenue, West Hempstead, NY. Admission: $45. Contact: Angela Danzi 516-756-0627/516-485-8620. Sponsored by Italian American Studies Association, Long Island Regional Chapter. Guest Speaker: Stanislao G. Pugliese, Ph.D., Professor of History, Hofstra University, and co-editor, wit...
New Rochelle Opera Presents LA TRAVIATA
New Rochelle Opera, Westchester's longest running opera company, will present Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, from June 20-23, 2019 in the Frank J. Auriana Theatre at the Ursuline School, 1354 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY. The production will be directed by Company co-founder and artistic director Camille Coppola, with orchestra and chorus conducte...
‘The Lung Block’ – Disrupting a Narrative about Italian Immigrants
In 2012, when Stefano Morello was still living in Italy, he started to investigate a family mystery: Whatever happened to his great-grandmother Salvatrice Nigido, who in 1913 had left the town of Militello in Eastern Sicily to join her brother and sister-in-law in New York City, leaving behind her husband and 5-year-old daughter Antonia? Morello wa...
Former Schenectady mayor Frank Duci remembered for long career as public servant
Gary McCarthy remembered Election Nights past as he spoke Thursday morning at St. John the Evangelist Church. Republicans and Democrats from Schenectady's Second Ward would gather at the former Westminster United Presbyterian Church at Avenue A and Mason Street and wait for poll numbers. McCarthy said people inside the church were not divided by pa...
Isabella Runfola, 103, longtime volunteer, widow of attorney Joseph P. Runfola
Isabella Runfola's life took her from Pennsylvania to Buffalo to Italy and back to Buffalo by the time she was 18, and that was before she won Charleston dancing competitions and met her future husband. But throughout her life, which lasted more than a century, she was a champion for others. “She loved everyone, including those who did not love the...
Lady Gaga's Mom Cynthia Germanotta Named Goodwill Ambassador for the UN's World Health Organization
The United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday (May 20) its four new Goodwill Ambassadors, one of which is Lady Gaga's mom, Cynthia Germanotta as the ambassador for mental health. The role aims to promote healthier lives, improved workforces and overall better mental health across the globe. Gemanotta took to Twitter to r...
Bronx Columbus Parade grand marshals selected
Two outstanding individuals were selected for honors during the 2019 Bronx Columbus Day Parade. Parade organizers and the Morris Park Community Association, which runs the annual community event, selected Frank Vignali, a FDNY Captain as grand marshal and Carol Ann Gilligan, P.S./M.S. 498 principal as honorary grand marshal, said Chris Alessandro,...
Dante Tini laid to rest. Virginia sailor buried next to parents 77 years after death
Nearly eight decades have passed since Dante Tini left his beloved home and family in Virginia and joined the Navy. He would die at just 19, killed when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, and the United States was at war. On Saturday the remains of Dante Sylvester Tini were blessed at a funeral Mass at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in...
Coney Island exhibit shows how fresh air saved thousands of immigrant lives
A new exhibit opening Saturday in Coney Island brings to light a bygone era when the seaside neighborhood was instrumental in saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. From the 1870s to the 1920s, immigrant women and children would come to live in nonprofit summer homes to escape the disease-filled tenement houses of the Lower East S...