2013 Feast of San Gennaro kicks off September 12th
New York's 87th Feast of San Gennaro kicks off on September 12, 2013, and, will run through September 22, 2013. If you aren't familiar with this annual celebration, the feast takes place in Manhattan's Little Italy, and, it is both a religious and cultural celebration of Italian/Americans and Italians living in the greater Tri-State area. ...
Mara Schiavocampo Joins ABC News as New York-based Correspondent
ABC News President Ben Sherwood sent the following note to the news division this morning announcing that Mara Schiavocampo is joining ABC News as a New York-based correspondent. I'm thrilled to announce that Mara Schiavocampo is joining ABC News as a New York-based correspondent reporting for all platforms. Read more Source:&nbs...
A Kid from Philadelphia: Mario Lanza “The Million Dollar Voice”
The Italian American Club of Mahopac Is Proud To Feature An Audio-Visual Presentation On: A Kid from Philadelphia, Mario Lanza "The Million Dollar Voice"By Professor Emilio Iodice, Vice President of Loyola University ChicagoDirector John Felice Rome Center When: Friday, March 13, 2015Time: 7:30 PMWhere: The Italian American Clu...
A Look at the 2015 Festa di San Giuseppe in Ridgewood, Queens
Hundreds gathered at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Ridgewood, Queens on Sunday (March 22nd) to celebrate the annual Festa di San Giuseppe. Mass was held in Italian by Father Thomas, followed by a procession through the neighborhood with marching bands and the saint's statue. Sponsored by the Associazone Cattolica Italiana di Miraculou...
MaxMara's 'architectural' clothing: The Italian fashion label has themed a collection around New York's Whitney Museum
by Kiki Georgiou MaxMara's camel cashmere double-breasted 101801 coat is a classic. Marcel Breuer's 1966 design for the now-old Whitney Museum of American Art on the Upper East Side's 75th street is a classic, too, in a different medium – one in which the new downtown Whitney, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, is currently joc...
CIMA closing weekend Festa!
Friday 26 – Saturday 27 June / 11:00 am – 8:00 pm Center for Italian Modern Art - 421 Broome Street, 4th floor - New York, NY 10013 - Tel. 646 370 3596 - email info@italianmodernart.org The Center for Italian Modern Art invites you to a Free Open House to celebrate the closing weekend of the Medardo Rosso/ Cy Twombly exhibitio...
Irish and Italian Catholics in New York – the definition of love/hate
If you visited Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last week, you will have seen a colorful reminder that certain sections of that borough were not always colonized by tattooed, pierced and bearded hipsters, with their bicycles and skateboards and skinny jeans. The parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel hosted its annual feast. It runs over a week and is...
Celebrate on September 8th the 12th Annual Festa for the Sicilian Black Madonna del Tindari
Il Comitato per il Ripristino della Festa della Madonna Nera cordially invites you to the Twelfth Annual Festa in Honor of the Sicilian Black Madonna del Tindari - Tuesday, September 8, 2015, 6PM at the Phoenix Bar, located at the former site of her devotion - 447 East 13th Street, off of Avenue A - Manhattan For t...
Seddio continues annual St. Joseph’s Day tradition
By Rob Abruzzese Frank Seddio and Frank Carone held their annual St. Joseph's Day Feast at their office in Canarsie on Friday, attracting so many members of Brooklyn's legal community that the crowd packed the office, the yard and the surrounding sidewalks. The feast was co-sponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild and the Columbian Lawyers...
Neighborhood organization wants to create a 'Little Italy'
Nothing says Italian food quite like cannolis, and some say, no one makes them quite like Etna's Bakery in Gates. Etna's is in the heart of more than a handful of Italian restaurants on Lyell Avenue and Spencerport Road. But, it's not quite a 'Little Italy.' "140,000 Italians in the greater Rochester area, and we're second only to Staten I...
Memoir Writing Workshop
The Calandra Institute is pleased to host this inaugural master class with guest artist and author Annie Rachele Lanzillotto. MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP. Documenting Family Stories. Giving Voice to Our Ancestors and Ourselves Sunday, January 18, 2015 - 10 am/5 pm - $100 includes lunch at the Calandra Institute, Manhattan &n...
Sinatra was ‘a towering figure’ for Italian community: Davi
By Richard Hutton While he has carved out quite a nice career for himself as an actor in film and television, Robert Davi is happiest when he is one stage singing from the Great American Songbook. It's something, though, that he never felt quite right doing as long as Frank Sinatra was able to take to the stage. That's becaus...