Keeping a Carroll Gardens tradition alive
by Mary Ann Pietanza He is navigating the Italian social club scene onto new turf at a time when change is not just inevitable, but almost necessary as it faces an aging membership. Parente, who is 48, has a presence that commands attention. Blue-eyed with white, wavy hair, he is wired to energize and please those around him. ...
New York, ora Little Italy è nel Bronx
Little Italy, fatti da parte. Il nuovo quartiere dove andare a New York per trovare il sapore autentico dell'Italia è il Bronx. Per la precisione, la zona di Arthur Avenue, nel quartiere Belmont, che secondo i suoi leader ambisce a diventare il prossimo "Village" della città. Per decenni Little Italy ha significato l'area di Manhattan intorno a Mu...
Ravenna after fifteen centuries, march 7th in New York
The city of Ravenna in collaboration with The Italian Academy of New York presents the conference "Ravenna after Fifteen Centuries", a unique initiative on March 7th 2013 to support the city's candidacy for becoming European Capital of Culture in 2019. Ravenna, with a history of more than fifteen centuries and eight UNESCO monuments, is no...
Il Gala NIAF di primavera
Nel titolo "New York Spring Extravaganza" è contenuto lo spirito che ha caratterizzato la serata mondana di giovedì organizzata dalla National Italian American Foundation da Cipriani a 42nd Street, a cui hanno preso parte oltre cinquecento persone. A fare gli onori di casa un volto noto del piccolo schermo, Rosanna Scotto di "Good Day New York" e...
Il libro di Giovanni Nucera racconta cosa lega la Calabria a New York
C'è Calabria, tanta Calabria anche qui in America. La racconta in un suo libro l'on. Giovanni Nucera, Segretario Questore del Consiglio regionale della Calabria. L'occasione è venuta da una missione istituzionale, come capo delegazione alle celebrazioni del Columbus Day del 2011. Da quella esperienza è nato il volume "Reggio NewYork- andataritorno...
Rev. Vincent J. Termine, Pastor Who Fought Racism in His Parish, Dies at 93
by Paul Vitello The Rev. Vincent J. Termine, a Roman Catholic priest who helped revive a dying parish in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, in the 1960s and '70s, then angered members of his predominantly white flock when he let black youths from another neighborhood participate in organized basketball at the church, died on Dec. 26 in Johns Island, S...
Chiacchierando di cinema e letteratura tra New York, Capri e Roma. Le Conversazioni 2014
By Maurita Cardone Il gusto per la conversazione è cosa italica, si sa. E se a quel chiacchierare in stile italiano si aggiunge l'arte americana della "lecture" e un tocco di cultura, il risultato è Le Conversazioni, edizione 2014. Un festival che ormai da nove anni porta sul Golfo di Napoli il meglio della letteratura anglosassone e, dal...
Magic Books - The Secret Art of Book Hacking Presented by Mariano Tomatis
We tune up engines and hack computers to improve their performances. What if we tuned up a book? Altering its structure and content, magical things may happen: volumes with movable parts, pages offering cinematic experiences, images appearing with a blow, non-linear structures to predict the future, pop-up magic shows... "Magic Books" is a...
The Belvedere Club by Bocelli Opening Night Thursday, April 30th
The Belvedere Club by Bocelli is excited to announce its grand opening this Thursday evening, April 30th and again Friday, May 1st, for your dining pleasure. We look forward to seeing you and extending a warm welcome on behalf of the Foundation and our new family at Bocelli. You will see so much hard work has gone into getting the Club ready f...
NY Phil’s “Contact!” program shows vitality of new Italian composers
By George Grella Four pieces of music from as many different composers are nowhere near sufficient to comprehensively survey a style or an aesthetic, much less an entire nation. But Monday night at SubCulture, the New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! new music series used four pieces to demonstrate the continued vitality and depth of...
Joseph Buono of family-owned Buono Bakery dies at 83
Joseph Buono, 83, of Grasmere, a baker and businessman whose family-owned bakery was a staple in Grasmere for many years, and a family man who loved Italian soccer, died Tuesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Born in Ischia, Italy, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 16, moving to Brooklyn. He settled in G...
From the Echoes of Mulberry Street to the First Italian Folk Revival of the 1970s
Lecture and performance by John La Barbera, composer and author of Traditional Southern Italian Mandolin and Fiddle Tunes and Italian Folk Music for Mandolin. Wednesday, October 7th (6:10pm) - Columbia University in the City of New York - 702 Hamilton Hall - 116 Street at 1130 Amsterdam Avenue - New York, NY 10027 Free...