"My Father's Fish": Book Reading by Mimi Aloia - October 30th, 6:30PM
You are cordially invited to attend a reading of Mimi Aloia's latest book titled, "My Father's Fish" at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, October 30th. The book is a compilation of poems, prose and original drawings that Mimi describes as a reflection of memories, thoughts, incidents and feelings from her life. Her autobiographical journey g...
StoryCorps in Rochester: Rosita Caridi-Miller, Italy
by David Riley She had to make a choice. If she had stayed in Italy with my father and me, then she would have lost the right to come to America because she would have been 21 the next year, and no longer a minor. So she made the choice of leaving my father and me in Italy and coming here to join her family and find work, pretty m...
Raising of the Italian and American Flags Ceremony
Italian Heritage and Culture Month 2015 Tribute To Italian Creativity: Celebrating 50 years of Italian Creativity and Technology "New York World's Fair 1965- Expo Milano 2015". You are cordially invited to attend the Raising of the Italian and American Flags and a special recognition to Elisabetta Calello, Sp...
Dog tag of Buffalo GI killed in 1945 discovered near Italian coast
Pasquale Gentile's life was hard, short and soon forgotten. He was one of five children of Italian immigrants, and they were separated after their mother died young in Buffalo. During World War II, he returned to his parents' homeland as a GI and was killed in action April 24, 1945, just days before the war in Europe ended. His body...
A New York "Pirandello 150"
Una rassegna di teatro, danza, cinema e video per rendere omaggio al premio Nobel italiano per la letteratura Luigi Pirandello. È quella che avrà luogo per un'intera settimana, da venerdì 13 a giovedì 19 gennaio, a New York presso il Film Forum di Manhattan. Ad organizzarla lo stesso Film Forum in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura...
In giro per New York alla “scoperta” di Colombo
Ristorante italiano, pizza, mozzarella, provola, addirittura il culatello: sapori e termini che stanno quasi scomparendo in alcune parti d'Italia, ma che restano impressi nelle insegne della "piccola Italia", Little Italy di New York. La Grande Mela degli italiani, oggi si è ridotta a una strada, nel cuore di Chinatown. Nonostante il numero e l'in...
Presentation of "Long Island Italian Americans: History, Heritage and Tradition"
Monday, March 23, 2015, 6pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - 25 West 43rd Street 17th floor - New York, N.Y., 10036Long Island Italian Americans: History, Heritage and Tradition (The History Press, 2013) by Salvatore LaGumina For Italian immigrants and their descendants, moving from "the city" to Long Island was more than a c...
Social scene: Staten Island native lauded for charitable deeds by ATU
Grant City native Marie L. Alfano's name has made headlines once again for her contributions to humanitarian causes. Alfano was lauded by the Amalgamated Transit Union Division 726 for her fundraising efforts and generosity during the organization's third annual Family Fund Golf Outing and dinner at the Richmond County Country Club, Dongan Hil...
IAWA’s Open Reading Series–Saturday, December 10, 2016–Featuring Trio of Emerging Writers from New Jersey City University
WHERE: Sidewalk Café, 94 Avenue A (6th Street) East Village, NYC-10009 WHEN: Saturday, December 10, 2016 @ 5:30 – 7:30 pm WHO: Gina DiRenzi is pursuing a Master's Degree in Urban Education and a certification in administration. She teaches high school English for NJCU's University Academy Charter High School. She has presented her work at...
Celebrating the External Solemnity of the Epiphany at Our Lady of Peace Church in Gowanus, Brooklyn
I made a long overdue pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Peace Church (522 Carroll St.) in Gowanus, recipe Brooklyn, Sunday morning for the external solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord. Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Missa Cantata) was sung by celebrant and homilist Fr. Christopher Cullen, who was assisted by several attentive altar servers. Ar...
La poesia di scena a Brooklyn
È stata un'indimenticabile serata quella tenutasi al Social Club di Castellammare Del Golfo, a Brooklyn, interamente dedicata alla cultura siciliana. Ricco programma di poesie presentate dal noto poeta Nino Provenzano, vice presidente di Arba Sicula, al quale hanno partecipato anche il prof. Gaetano Cipolla, presidente della medesima Assoc...
Words Matter: Mario Cuomo's 1984 Tale of Two Cities Relevant to Today's Politics of Disappointment
by Karen Hinton At the recent unveiling of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's portrait in the Governors Hall at the State Capitol, I recalled the first time I heard him speak. The elder Cuomo, after two decades of resisting, finally gave into his family's urging to follow tradition and allow the hanging of his portrait, painted last ye...