Columbus Citizens Foundation Celebrates 70 Years with World's Largest Celebration of Italian-American Culture and Achievement: The Columbus Day Parade
On Monday, October 13, 2014, Fifth Avenue will come alive with more than 40,000 participants and over one million spectators for New York City's 70th Annual Columbus Day Celebration and Parade, which runs north on Fifth Avenue, from 47th to 72nd Street from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM and led by Grand Marshal Frank Bisignano. It is also broadcast live on W...
John And Nancy Petralia, Co-Authors Of “Not In A Tuscan Villa”
The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, once home of Antonio Meucci, the true inventor of the telephone and his houseguest, the Italian patriot, Giuseppe Garibaldi, is proud to announce the cooperation with L'Idea Magazine and to present their first Literature Series article with a husband and wife team: John and Nancy Petralia, Co-Authors of Not in a Tuscan...
You, Me & Sicily!
Talk by Alfred M. Zappalà, Esq. and Eszter Vajdahttp://www.AlfredZappala.com http://www.TheSicilianProject.com http://www.evazmediagroup.com Please join us at the Italian American Museum this Tuesday evening, March 24th for a talk by Alfred M. Zappalà Esq. and Eszter Vajda. Mr. Zappalà will give us an update on "The Sicilian Project", sp...
Paolo Busti Foundation scholarship dinner
The Paolo Busti Cultural Foundation held its 30th annual Scholarship Dinner Wednesday night at Terry Hills Restaurant. From left, are John Borrelli and Louis Cinquino, Outstanding Italian-American honorees; along with scholarship winners Paige Misiti, Olivia Marchese and Allison Della Penna. Alison earned the top award of $1,000. Paige was th...
Opening Reception for Four Decades: Dom Quartuccio, Little Italy's Own Photographer
The Italian American Museum cordially invites you to attend the opening reception for FOUR DECADES. Dom Quartuccio, Little Italy's Own Photographer, 1937 - 1977 Solo Exhibition by Dom Quartuccio. Thursday, October 8, 2015. 6:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. Refreshments will be served - R.S.V.P. 212.965.90...
Immigrants: The Irish and Italian love-hate relationship
By Paul Moses Early in the Irish-Italian romance portrayed in the new film "Brooklyn," a precocious 8-year-old boy serves up the truth that everyone else gathered around the dinner table in his Italian family hid from the young Irishwoman visiting their home. "We don't like Irish people," little Frankie says, much to the embarrass...
OSIA honors Janice Cenzoprano
Garden City resident Janice Paradiso Cenzoprano will be honored by the New York State Grand Lodge Foundation, Order Sons ofItaly in America at their "Twenty-Third Anniversary Winter Charity Ball". Ms. Cenzoprano will be awarded the "Special Recognition Award" for her volunteer work with the Cooley's Anemia Foundation. The gala affair will...
Antoinette Abbruscato, 90
Antoinette Abbruscato, 90, a retired seamstress and longtime Oakwood resident whose life revolved around her family, died Sunday in Carmel Richmond Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Dongan Hills, where she had been a patient for two weeks. Born Antoinette Russo in Naples, Italy, she met Joseph Abbruscato when he was serving in the U.S. Arm...
OUSTANDING: Italian-Americans bonded by heritage, pride and traditions
by Jim Krencik Looking for the perfect words to say as the emcee of Wednesday's Paolo Busti Cultural Foundation Fall Fundraiser, Notre Dame High School Principal Wade Bianco said he read as much as he could find about his people. "I searched for Italian pride, Italian heritage, the top ten things Italians are proud of," Bianco said before the...
The 'Gateway to America' opened 125 years ago today: Ellis Island marks anniversary of the day it began to welcome 12 MILLION immigrants hoping to start a new life
From a mother with her seven children to a man staring longingly at the New York skyline, haunting photos show the faces of some of the 12 million immigrants hoping to achieve the American dream. Men, women, and children are pictured, many with solemn faces after travelling thousands of miles in poor conditions and knowing that they could be t...
"My Sicily": Francesca Mignosa ospite dell’Italian American Museum
Sarà presentato sabato 2 febbraio all'Italian American Museum di New York il libro "My Sicily: Life in the Cusp of the Mediterranean Sea", durante un incontro con l'autrice siciliana Francesca V. Mignosa. "My Sicily" è una raccolta di memorie e riflessioni dell'infanzia dell'autrice e dei suoi viaggi in Sicilia. Nata e cresciuta a...
Lo scatto del leopardo 1963-2013: le foto di Ralph Toporoff sul set del Gattopardo
di Beatrice Bondi Venerdí sera si è tenuta presso la Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò l'apertura ufficiale della mostra fotografica The leap of the leopard, una splendida esposizione di foto inedite scattate da Ralph Toporoff sul set del film il Gattopardo di Luchino Visconti, capolavoro del cinema italiano con un grande cast internazionale, c...