COLUMBUS DAY: 57th annual parade, competition Monday
by Maggie Gilroy Local bands, color guards and drum majors will duke it out for the 57th time during the annual Columbus Day Tournament of Bands Parade and Italian Festival on Monday. "We put on the parade because it's tradition," said Ron Sall, president of the Downtown Binghamton Business Association. "It's about the kids." ...
AL GIORNALISTA ITALO/AMERICANO DOM SERAFINI "IL MOSCHETTIERE DEL LAVORO 2013" DEGLI ABRUZZESI ALL'ESTERO DELL'UGL
Consegnato dalla UGL a Domenico "Dom" Serafini il "Moschettiere del Lavoro" 2013 – abruzzesi all'estero. L'importante riconoscimento è stato consegnato oggi, a Pescara, al giornalista Domenico "Dom" Serafini. Per Geremia Mancini Segretario Confederale UGL " Abbiamo colto l'occasione della visita in Abruzzo di "Dom" Serafini per consegnargl...
Recognition Brick Walkway
For year 2013 to every $ raised in bricks we will receive an extra $ as a matching grant! Your contribution this year will be double the value, every $ brick purchased in 2013 will bring to the museum 2x$. For over 50 years the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum has fulfilled its mission to preserve the legacies of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Antonio Meucci, and...
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum to Celebrate Italian Christmas Traditions
On Sunday, December 15, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will host a day of holiday celebration. Beginning with Christmas Breakfast Buffet at 11:30 a.m., the day will include games and treats for the whole family. The museum will also unveil its newly enhanced presepio (nativity scene). The tradition of the presepio began in 326 AD when Emperor...
Joseph Luzzi reads from My Two Italies
Monday, September 22 Luzzi creates a personal portrait of Italy that leaps past clichés, delving into why Italian Americans have complicated relationships with the "old country" and how it is that Italy has produced astonishing and significant art while suffering from corruption, political fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society. Wi...
Lecture on Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor - November 24, 2014 at 6:00 pm
The extraordinary and sometimes underestimated legacy of Frederick's reign between 1220 and 1250 is the subject of a lecture by Louis Hamilton. The era of Frederick's rule has justifiably been described as the "first Renaissance." However, whereas the later Italian Renaissance flourished primarily in the center and north of the peninsula, this firs...
Dopo cento anni l’incendio del Triangle non si è ancora spento
Triangle è il nome della fabbrica tessile che prese fuoco nel 1911 a New York causando la morte di 146 persone, la maggior parte emigrate italiane ed ebree. Sistemi di sicurezza inesistenti e porte chiuse a chiave, perché i padroni temevano che le operaie facessero pause troppo lunghe o commettessero furti, furono tra le condizioni che causarono un...
A Look at the 2015 Festa di Sant'Antonio di Padova in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Hundreds gathered at St. Athanasius Church in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn Sunday morning (June 13th) for the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua. Mass was celebrated in English and Italian by Monsignor Cassato, followed by the blessing of the bread and procession through the neighborhood. After distributing the loaves, the celebration came to a clos...
Lynbrook’s Sons of Italy awards scholarship
by Mary Malloy The Order Sons of Italy in America's Per Sempre Lodge 2344 in Lynbrook presented their choice for this year's winner of the lodge's annual merit college scholarship award at their June monthly meeting held on June 30. The winner of the merit scholarship award was Justin Boniello, 17, a graduate of Holy Cross High Sc...
Alberto Burri: ‘Artist, poet, and creator of the new’
Why Burri, and why now? This year marks the centenary of the birth of Alberto Burri (1915-1995), the Italian medic who began to produce unconventional masterpieces as a prisoner of war in America's Camp Howze. According to gallery director Luigi Mazzoleni, who hosts Alberto Burri at his London gallery until 30 November, '[He] was one...
In gennaio a New York il Long Island ambasciatore awards 2016
Grande attesa a New York per la cerimonia e la gena di gala del Long Island Ambasciatore Awards 2016, che si terrà domenica 24 gennaio, dalle ore 12 alle ore 16, al Crest Hollow Country Club di Woodbury. Ad organizzare l'evento l'Italian American Museum di Little Italy, fondato e presieduto da Joseph V. Scelsa. La cerimonia intende re...
New York Opera WOMEN: THE WAR WITHIN Sets Stage for Italian Actor Gianlorenzo Albertini's Rise to Stardom
Actor Gianlorenzo Albertini caught the eye of director Paul Warner while studying at the acclaimed New York Film Academy. Warner, a teacher at the Academy and a resident artist at the famed Baryshnikov Arts Center was the director of a new multi-disciplinary dance theater-opera, Women: The War Within. Warner brought Gianlorenzo Albertini...