Boys’ & Girls’ Towns of Italy 68th Annual Spring Ball
New York City, New York: Boys' & Girls' Towns of Italy (BGTI), a nonprofit that empowers war refugee, migrant, and at-risk youth living on the streets, announced today the honorees of its 68th Annual Spring Ball to be held on Thursday, April 11th at The Pierre, New York. The Man of the Year is Joseph B. Ryan Jr., Managing Director of Developmen...
East Harlem Giglio Society to hoist new 5 1/2 ton tower in annual Catholic religious festival
by Shannon E. Ayala Revisiting your heritage can make for a pretty heavy experience.Especially for members of the East Harlem Giglio Society, who journeyed to the small Neapolitan village from which their forebears migrated to New York more than a century back, and returned with a new centerpiece for their historic religious festival. Thi...
The Voices of Leopardi's Zibaldone on Sept. 25 at Columbia
On September 25, The Italian Academy at Columbia University and Farrar, Straus and Giroux present The Voices of Leopardi's Zibaldone. Appearing for the first time in its entirety in English, Zibaldone amasses the unprecedented brilliance of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) into one groundbreaking, 2,500-page text. Widely regarded as Italy's fi...
I Nuovi Yorkers scoprono il loro corpo: mostra di artisti italiani al NooSphere Arts
by Lisa D'Ignazio La chiamavano "Nuova York" i primi immigrati italiani che all'inizio del Novecento arrivavano ad Ellis Island. La continuano a chiamare così, quasi per gioco, gli artisti italiani che vivono in quella che resta ancora oggi la città delle opportunità. New York accoglie nelle sue braccia i suoi Nuovi Yorkers e lo fa con l'...
Week of Italian Language - THE FOUR CORNERS OF PALERMO by Giuseppe di Piazza
In THE FOUR CORNERS OF PALERMO, Giuseppe Di Piazza uses his real-life experience as a crime reporter to bring to life the second mob war of Palermo. In his newspaper career, Di Piazza covered the murders of over 300 people, many of whom he knew personally: officers, judges, and politicians. This book is his attempt to explain these dark ev...
The Lives and Art of Tintoretto and Veronese
Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 10:30amBoth masters of art, Tintoretto and Veronese were rivals in the Venetian School of art during the Renaissance. Equally adept at using color and perspective, their artwork differed greatly. Tintoretto, dubbed Il Furioso, used dramatic and energetic figures and was a precursor to baroque art, while Verone...
Rare representation of Italian modern Master Medardo Rosso
Last October, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) unveiled a major installation of sculpture, drawing, and experimental photography by acclaimed modernist Medardo Rosso, revealing the exceptional range of an artist known chiefly for his three-dimensional work. Initially derided by critics, Rosso later achieved renown for his radical approach t...
Fig Fest 2015: It's about to happen on Staten Island
by Pamela Silvestri Staten Island's elusive Fig Fest is back again for its fifth year. As the crowd grew too large for the original venue (the Turtle Fountain at Midland Beach), a private venue has been sought ever since. The celebration will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 15, starting at 6 p.m. — that's an hour earlier than usual — at...
Step Inside La Mangiami, New York's Coolest Disco Dining Hang Out
by Josh Baines New York, New York. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. The home of the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, and a branch of M&M's World. We've never been but we've heard all about it. Our friends have told us it's really cold in the winter and really hot in the summer and that you can buy face-sized slices of pizza...
Making Sauce, Chasing Chickens Is My Destiny
By Gina Barreca Destiny: Those parts of your life you can't escape no matter how hard you've worked to avoid them. I was making tomato sauce the other afternoon just as my Sicilian grandmother taught me: searing the sausage and the chopped meat in separate frying pans while getting the olive oil, garlic, parsley and the oregano ready in other...
Curveballs and Cannolis
Enzo Idello is a baker who wants to pitch in the major leagues. To achieve his dream, Enzo must defy his father, who runs the family bakery, and the ghost of his great grandfather, who founded Idello Bakery in Italy in 1829. Will curveballs bring Enzo more fulfillment than cannolis? Or will the love of family and a childhood crush make Enzo feel fu...
Renzo Arbore chiude la locandina degli avvenimenti per la festa della Repubblica al Consolato Generale
di Riccardo Chioni Bagno di folla al Consolato Generale nella serata di domenica per lo showman Renzo Arbore, giunto per la presentazione di Umbria Jazz, a conclusione della giornata di festeggiamenti per la festa della Repubblica, evento inserito nel quadro dell'Anno della Cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti. Il console generale N...