Italian Heritage Festival starts Friday in Niagara Falls
A long-standing city tradition is coming back in full force this year. The Italian Festival will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday on Pine Avenue between Portage Avenue and 15th Street. It comes a year after a smaller version of the festival was held. Carmine Bianco, who heads a men's bocce club in the city known as the Pax Romana Commi...
Italian Club of Staten Island Foundation honors Advance columnist
Carol Ann Benanti, Staten Island Advance columnist and features writer, was recognized as the Honoree of the Year Friday by the Italian Club of Staten Island Foundation at its annual dinner dance, held at the Staaten, West Brighton. A crowd of 180 supporters, friends and family members turned out to fete Mrs. Benanti and to help support the non-pr...
Tutta la Famiglia - A Photographic Exhibition of Community Life in Gloucester, Massachusetts - Paul Cary Goldberg
Exhibition opening: Thursday, September 18, 2014, 6pm On view: September 19, 2014-January 9, 2015Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Roundtable discussion: Monday, November 3, 2014, 6pm Italian Americans, mostly from Sicily, make up about a quarter of the population of Gloucester, Massachusetts--the oldest fishing port in the United States. Ma...
Giorgio Linda: Contemporary Painting Makes a Cultural Bridge
Chelsea's Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Pagnacco artist Giorgio Linda in Divergent Realities. The exhibition opens on October 10, 2014 and continues until October 30, 2014. The opening reception takes place on the evening of October 16, at 6-8pm. Entrance is free and all are warmly welcomed to attend. About the ArtistGior...
Book Presentation and Signing
September 19 (Saturday) 2:00 pm. Author Dr. David Mercaldo will present his latest book The Other Italians. The book is an historical view of a major component of the Italian and Italian American culture dealing with the historical legacy of the Roman Catholic Church and its new millennia transitions. Dr. Mercaldo has authored several books, w...
The National Organization of Italian American Women Honors Alisyn Camerota and Jeanne Mariani Sullivan April 16 at the St. Regis New York
The National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW), the only national organization for women of Italian ancestry, celebrates its 35th Anniversary with a Luncheon and Silent Auction at the St. Regis New York on Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:30 AM and honors two accomplished Italian American women: Alisyn Camerota is a CNN anchor and co-ho...
Mostre, "Le Spiral Life" di Giusy D'Arrigo a New York
Simboli ancestrali per arrivare al centro dell'anima: sono le 'vite a spirale' dell'artista siciliana Giusy D'Arrigo, dal 3 ottobre allestite in una sua mostra personale a New York. Si tratta di 73 opere, tutte di grandi dimensioni, altorilievi astratti in cui i diversi materiali si fondono tra di loro come gigantesche installazioni. Prese...
Growing Up in the Coney Island Slums, Here Italian Americans Called Italians “Guineas”
In 1969, my father Angelo and mother Onorina bought a house in Coney Island. My parents had come over to the United States just ten years before, but then we'd returned to spend four of those years in Italy. I still had the traces of an accent from my first language, the dialect spoken in Vallemaio, a village of 600 people in the mountains...
Tutta la famiglia: una mostra racconta i siciliani del Massachusetts
by Maria Antonella Mannino Sembra poter condensare in sé l'idea di una sorta di sicilianità ubiqua ed universale, l'immagine dal titolo Frank, scattata dal fotografo Paul Cary Goldberg, parte della serie Tutta La Famiglia: a Photographic Exhibition of Community Life in Gloucester, Massachusetts, esposta fino al 9 gennaio al John D. Calandra Italia...
Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America
BOOK PRESENTATION.Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 6pm Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America Donna DiCello, Yale University School of MedicineLorraine Mangione, Antioch University New England The father-daughter relationship can be central to both the father and the daughter, yet there is a dearth of psychologic...
Michael Serao
Michael Serao is no stranger to Astoria. He has 11 years of banking experience which included six years at Commerce Bank in Astoria and three years as Vice President of JP Morgan Chase Bank in Astoria. As grandson of Edward Serao from Bogan and Sons Furniture, a Steinway Street store that was a fixture for decades, Serao is following in hi...
ILICA, l'anno XI si festeggia con la musica
La serata Culturale di ILICA si è svolta sabato, 7 novembre, nella cornice del rinnovato Queens Museum ($70 milioni di maquillage). Il concerto del Maestro Simeone Tartaglione e di Alessandra Cuffaro, moglie e virtuosa del violino (prima donna a suonare in una serata i 24 Capricci di Paganini) ha incantato per 45 minuti oltre 200 invitati. ...