2013 Long Island Columbus Day Parade
The Parade will take place on Sunday, October 13, 2013 in Huntington, New York on Main Street (Route 25A) at 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm in celebration of Columbus Day. Grand Marshals:Joan Rondinelli, First Lady New York State OSIADon K. Reed, Radio PersonalityPaul Richards, WHLI Radio PersonalityJoe Satta, WHLI Radio Personality Parade sponsored...
Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Vito Marcantonio's Death
August 9 (Saturday) 1:00 pm - * Rain date on 8/16/14 The commemoration of Vito Marcantonio's death will take place at his gravesite, where he is buried next to his wife, Miriam Sanders, and nearby his mentor, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Bring flowers and share your thoughts about Vito Marcantonio at the ceremony. The ceremony will feature: Gera...
Poets of the Italian diaspora, by Luigi Bonaffini and Joseph Perricone
Poets of the Italian Diaspora is part of a long-range project, by the editors and contributors, to expand the boundaries of the Italian literary canon. In the century between 1870 and 1970, about twenty-seven million migrants left Italy to work and live abroad. As a result, the worldwide Italian diaspora reportedly numbers more than sixty million p...
Staten Island. Italoamericano ucciso da un rapinatore
Un anziano italoamericano è stato brutalmente ucciso da un rapinatore al rientro da una festa per il suo compleanno e quello della moglie, anche lei ferita di coltellate. Marito e moglie sono rincasati a Staten Island domenica sera trovandosi di fronte un ladro che stava razziando la casa, è scaturita una collutazione e il ladro ha infierito sull'...
Gabriele Tinti - Chants, Boxers, Wounds
Chants, Boxers, Wounds is an evening where Gabriele Tinti, the Italian writer, will read his poetry on boxing and will present, Poetry Films, based on his text. Immediately following, there will be a discussion with Edoardo Ballerini (an actor of Italian origin and lead actor The Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, I Shot Andy Warhol and reade...
Celebrating Faith, Family and Culture: An Interview With Domenic Varuzza
By Giovanni di Napoli Today we are honored to interview Mr. Domenic Varuzza. I first met Dom years ago during the lifting of the giglio at the Feast of San Paolino di Nola in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I was immediately impressed by the young man's character and his passion for his cultural traditions. Recognizing his leadership skills, the...
Italian American Writers Association Reading Series
October 10 (Saturday) 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Maria Mazziotti Gillan has authored more than 20 poetry collections, is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ and editor of the Paterson Literary Review and recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Lite...
Una Storia Americana: Two Italian Illustrators Entered the Collective Imaginary of New Yorkers
Once upon a time The America of the Modern Age, the "everything's possible kingdom" where prosperity and fictitious collide, conceptual and urban grids coexist, and individualism, celebrities, and myths evolve. And, then there was its "shadow side" with irony and contraction, madness and melancholy–suspended atmospheres, alienating suburbs...
Italian-themed dinner-concert to benefit artist colony
The sounds and tastes of Italy will fill the The Horned Dorset Inn as the next featured dinner concert gets underway on Sunday. "An Evening of Italian Song" will feature arias and selections performed by maestro Charles Schneider at the piano, with lyric tenor Jonathan Howell as vocalist. The event will begin at 4 p.m. with cocktails...
Williamsburg’s Giglio Feast takes starring role in new mob movie
It is ready for its close-up! The Giglio festival will dance its way onto the silver screen in the new mob film "The Brooklyn Banker," opening Aug. 5. The flick, which follows a bank official from Williamsburg with ties to a local organized crime family, features scenes set during the 113-year-old Italian-American festival, and to get the right lo...
New York Loves Italy
Parallelamente al ciclo di incontri "Meet the New Italians of New York", a Park Avenue 690 nasce un nuovo progetto promosso dal Consolato Generale d'Italia: New York Loves Italy. Il progetto si articola in un ciclo di incontri – a cadenza tendenzialmente bimestrale, ospitati a Park Avenue 690 dal Consolato Generale d'Italia – dove affermati espone...
La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic
On Friday, October 28 at 2:30PM the Consulate General of Italy in New York (690 Park Avenue) will host a press conference for La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic. The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, His Excellency Armando Varricchio, and the Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall, Mr. Clive Gillins...