Long Island man says town fired him because he’s Italian
A Long Island man booted from his job as a deputy finance commissioner for the Town of North Hempstead announced Wednesday that he is preparing to sue the municipality because, he says, he was fired for being Italian. Angelo Ferrara, 66, has filed a notice of claim and complaint with the state's Division of Human Rights alleging the town d...
Seneca South: Italian American fest seeks new ideas
by Glenda Gephart The Schuyler County Italian American Festival is looking for new ideas and new volunteers. The festival, in its 36th year in 2015, has set this year's dates for Friday, July 31, and Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 1 and 2. Louis Perazzini of Watkins Glen, 2015 committee president, said in a news release that the g...
Italian director Giovanna Taviani comes to RIT
by Greg Livadas Giovanna Taviani, a celebrated Italian film director, will be an artist-in-residence at Rochester Institute of Technology, which sponsored her visit to Rochester to show her film, "Ritorni (Homecomings)," at the High Falls Film Festival. "Other than being a director, she has created a documentary film festival in Sicily an...
Ridendo e scherzando - Ettore Scola
Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 6:00 pm. Italian Cultural Institute of New York. 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10021 - USA. Organized by : ICI. Entrance : Free. Book now! Screening of the documentary film Ridendo e Scherzando, a tribute to the late director and screen-wright by his daughters, portraying an intellectual w...
Italian American Democratic Leadership Council Endorses Bill de Blasio for Mayor of New York City
The Italian American Democratic Leadership Council (IADLC), the voice of Italian Americans in the Democratic Party, endorses Bill de Blasio for Mayor of New York City. As the elected Public Advocate, he is already the highest ranking city official of Italian heritage in NYC. Bill is very proud of his Italian heritage– his family is from east of N...
Federico on my Mind: Fellini in mostra a New York
di Chiara Zaccherotti Se a Ray Charles bastava una vecchia canzone per farsi tornare in mente la dolce Georgia, le suggestioni che si scatenano con "l'artigiano che non ha niente da dire, ma che sa come dirlo" sono innumerevoli e ancora oggi vive in tutto il mondo. Federico on my Mind è il titolo della mostra con cui, nell'ambito...
Nessuna conferma sulla visita del Papa in Usa dalla Santa Sede, ma la città si prepara ad accoglierlo
di Riccardo Chioni Personalmente, Papa Francesco recentemente ha espresso il desiderio di compiere un viaggio negli Stati Uniti e nonostante la Santa Sede non abbia ancora confermato la missione apostolica, nella Big Apple c'è già chi è in fermento e si sta adoperando per stendere il "tappeto bianco" al Citi Field, lo stadio dei Mets. Com...
Italian American Experience Lecture Series: Clash of Civilizations in Italy
Amara Lakhous, author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, examines the theme of identity through the descriptions of idiosyncrasies in multicultural Italy by way of a story of a murder in Rome. This is the last of 5 lectures in the Italian American Experience Series Fall 2014, New Books on Italian Americana pres...
Eugene Louis Faccuito, Creator of Jazz Dance Style, Dies at 90
Eugene Louis Faccuito, a dancer and choreographer whose physical reawakening after a paralyzing accident became the wellspring of an internationally renowned jazz dance technique, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause was cancer, said Francis J. Roach, the director of Luigi's Jazz Center, the school Mr. Faccuito founde...
Local Italian-American vets posts named for war dead
By Donna Thompson The names of some of the area's war dead are kept alive through the names of local veterans posts, including a pair of Italian-American veterans posts. The post now known as DeCarlo-Staffo Post No. 8 in Little Falls got its start in 1937 when a group from the Department of New York came to Little Falls and organized a...
Rockland Lodge Sons Of Italy Celebrate 50th Anniversary
The Rockland Lodge 2176: The Rockland Lodge 2176 of the Sons of Italy celebrated their 50th Anniversary in October with over 250 people in attendance. Past presidents and founding members were on hand as well as New York State Grand Lodge President Carolyn Reres, and New York State Senator David Carlucci, who is also a Lodge member, and presented p...
Ilica premia Cassano
La serie di appuntamenti della Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance, che ha festeggiato il decimo anniversario, si è chiusa sabato sera con la cerimonia di consegna di riconoscimenti a bordo dello yacht Hornblower Infinity nella spettacolare cornice offerta dal panorama di New York. Nell'occasione ha fatto pervenire a Ilica la benedizione apos...