Honoring a 9/11 Hero with a New Scholarship
by Ken Budd "Go ahead. I'll follow." Franco Lalama said those words to colleagues on the morning of September 11, 2001. He had led the evacuation of engineering offices on the 64th floor of One World Trade Center, but then, moments after heading down the stairs, he turned back. He wanted to check the offices one more time—to make sure no o...
Growing up Italian in Lyncourt: CNY books and authors
Lugi Visconti has recently retired after spending 33 years working for Lockheed Martin, an event he says helped spur the idea of writing a book, but it's a lifetime spent honing his sense of humor that has proved the most helpful tool in sharing his stories. Visconti moved to the Lyncourt area in the 1960s, just in time to start school at...
Freddy and Dolly: Not even in death did they part
She called him Freddy. He called her Dolly. They met in a small town near Naples, Italy. She was on vacation from the states. He had served in the Italian Army, a tank commander brandishing a snappy uniform. They fell in love, married, came to New York and raised a family. On Friday, they observed their 65th wedding anniversary,...
Workshop: Italian Interdisciplinary Modernism at NYU
The workshop Italian Interdisciplinary Modernism will take place on Friday, February 22 at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University, 24 West, 12th Street, New York NY. http://www.casaitaliananyu.org/.The first in a series of workshops funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK as part of the Research Networking Grants proj...
Il millenario capolavoro bronzeo ellenistico il "Pugilatore in riposo" in mostra al Metropolitan
di Riccardo Chioni Dopo oltre duemila anni il bronzo del "Pugilatore in riposo" per la prima volta ha lasciato l'Europa per venire a farsi ammirare per sei settimane al Metropolitan Museum, dove ieri si è svolta la presentazione alla stampa. Alla cerimonia era presente l'ambasciatore a Washington, Claudio Bisogniero, Stefano Lucchini...
Un esilio perenne: Marma, un pittore fiorentino a New York
Rodolfo Marma nacque a Firenze nel 1923. Era di estrazione popolare. La sua vocazione artistica ebbe luogo in una città nella quale le attività artigianali prolungavano nel tempo una civiltà antica, senza fronzoli, abituata a dare un peso ed un valore alla bellezza. Studiò all'Accademia di Belle Arti, dove ebbe come maestri Ugo Capocchini...
Ferragosto 2014
The Belmont section of the Bronx will host their annual Ferragosto festival that draws thousands of visitors from the tri-state area and beyond to the intersection of all-things-Italian at world-famous Arthur Avenue and East 187th Street on Sunday, September 7, from noon until 6pm. This ancient Roman festival dates back to 18 B.C. when the gatherin...
Floating plastic garbage 'state' to make entrance at UN
The artist behind the Garbage Patch State - a country without borders made of plastic detritus that floats in the oceans - is debuting with an installation in the lobby of the United Nations (UN) headquarters on September 29. Designer, architect and artist Maria Cristina Finucci is making her artistic and environmental statement coincide w...
Round table "Marconi and his intuitions" - November 20, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Born in Bologna, Italy in 1874, died in Rome in 1937, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi did the groundbreaking work necessary for all future radio technology. Through his experiments in wireless telegraphy, Marconi developed the first effective system of radio communication. In 1899, he founded the Marconi Telegraph C...
Gioachino Rossini’s Barbiere Di Siviglia at Tilles Center - Friday, April 17, 2015 at 6:45pm
Gioachino Rossini's comedic opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) will be performed by New York City's Dicapo Opera Theatre (Michael Capasso, General Director) in Italian with English supertitles and with a full orchestra. The Barber of Seville was the first opera to be sung in Italian in New York City in 1825. The event begins a...
Italian American Museum says evictions aren't hypocrisy, just business
by Ben Fisher New York's rapid redevelopment is bound to cause fights over evictions, rents and gentrification. But for sheer unfortunate irony, it's hard to top the ongoing saga of the Italian American Museum in Little Italy. In the last week, the museum has evicted two tenants of the Lower East Side enclave, both the very embodiment...
A Look at the 2015 Festa Della Madonna Dell'Arco in Ridgewood, Queens
Sunday, April 12th, dozens of pilgrims and fujenti (devotees of the Madonna of the Arch) gathered at St. Matthias Church in Ridgewwod, Queens for the Third Annual Festa Della Madonna Dell'Arco. Mass was celebrated in Italian with Father Vincent Miceli, followed by a short procession around the parish to the nearby Peter Cardella Senior Citizen Cent...