Appuntamento con il paesaggio italiano alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò. Dal paesaggio nell'arte alla geologia del territorio con Ann Pizzorusso
"Chi è il primo che viene in mente quando si pensa alla parola di genio? Le probabilità sono che la risposta sia: Leonardo Da Vinci. Ebbene c'è anche chi partendo dall'arte di Leonardo da Vinci ha approfondito un argomento molto importante: la geologia del territorio. Il prof. Stefano Albertini, Direttore Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò alla...
Award-Winning Cristina Fontanelli Promotes World Peace Through Song
Award-winning singer and PBS/WNET and NY affiliates host for "Andrea Bocelli: Live From Central Park" and "Il Volo Takes Flight" Cristina Fontanelli brings her second-annual concert program of the world's best-loved classic songs during her "The Great International Songbook, plus wine reception" at Engelman Recital Hall at the Baruch Perform...
An evening in Lazio - Benefit dinner
Celebrating 35 Years of the Calandra Institute at PICCOLO FIORE RISTORANTE - 230 EAST 44TH STREET, Manhattan (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) - Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 7pm to 9pm Lazio is a region of central Italy bordered by the Tyrrhenian Sea, traversed by the waters of the Tiber River, and characterized by...
'An Unlikely Union' author Paul Moses on his book, about Irish and Italian immigrants' rivalry in NYC
by Ginger Adam Otis Any journalist who has ever been an author has lived through that uncomfortable moment when, for the first time, the tables are turned and you become the interview subject who's put on the hot seat. I wrote about my experience with that for Page Views last month with the publication of my first book — and it se...
Beyond Modigliani – alternative histories of modern Italian art in New York
by Rosalind McKever Amedeo Modigliani, his Nu couché (1917-18), and its £170.4 million price tag, have been attracting attention in New York, but the city has a lot more Italian modern art to offer. Alberto Burri's abstract burlap, plastic and celotex compositions are on show at the Guggenheim and the ever-popular still lifes of Giorg...
I 109 anni della San Pasquale
Con costanza, passione, fede ed entusiasmo, domenica 13 marzo si è svolto il 109mo gala della San Pasquale Society di Airola (Benevento). Un sodalizio socio-comunitario, creato dagli emigrati della città di Airola nel lontano 1907 con scopi sociali, di assistenza e di beneficenza. Era il vecchio mondo dell'emigrazione italiana, fatta di du...
Syracuse Italian American Athletic Club donates 500 cases of water to Flint
By Katrina Tulloch The Italian American Athletic Club of Syracuse has donated 500 cases of water to the people of Flint, Michigan. News of the Flint water crisis broke in 2015, but Anthony Catania, the treasurer of the IAAC, hadn't heard about it until he saw Flint residents on the "Steve Harvey Show" last spring. "People fro...
The Holocaust in Italy: The Life and Times of Primo Levi
September 13 (Tuesday) 7:00 pm. The Holocaust in Italy: The Life and Times of Primo Levi. A presentation by Francesco Bonavita. Primo Levi is perhaps one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. As a survivor of the Holocaust, he went on to document the horrors of his experiences in The Periodic Table, If Not Now, When? and The Monkey...
Duo to present 'Christmas Music with an Italian Flair' at Auburn church
Auburn Italian-American music duo Paolo & Felice will present Christmas Music with an Italian Flair at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, at Willard Memorial Chapel, 17 Nelson St., Auburn. The duo, consisting of Paolo Saltarello on mandolin/vocals and Felice Mucedola on accordion, has performed at festivals in Buffalo, Rochester, Watertown and mor...
MONDOMUSICA NEW YORK: L'ÉLITE DELLA LIUTERIA INTERNAZIONALE ENTUSIASTA DELL'EVENTO
Dopo due anni intensi di lavoro da parte di CremonaFiere e dopo avere gettato solide basi di collaborazioni importanti negli Stati Uniti, si è finalmente concretizzata la prima edizione di Mondomusica New York. Le premesse per un evento straordinario c'erano tutte: 164 espositori da tutto il mondo, 17 eventi collaterali di alto livello tra...
Italian American Veterans Club to hold Italian Festival July 20-21
Elmira, N.Y. The Italian American Veterans Club, 1070 Magee St., Elmira, will hold its 28th annual Italian Festival from 4 to 9 p.m. on July 20 and noon to 8 p.m. on July 21. The festival will feature Italian-American food, beverages and games. The schedule of festival events is as follows:- 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on July 20, music...
New York's Other Little Italy
Once home to the likes of astronomer Carl Sagan and Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei, Brooklyn, New York's Bensonhurst neighborhood has produced more than celebrities. Its generations-owned pasticcerias, salumerias, homemade bread and mozzarella stores and open-air produce markets have created some of the most authentic Italian specialty foods th...