After a pandemic cancellation last year, Festa Italiana will return to Downtown Syracuse this September
The organizers of Festa Italiana announced this week that the annual late-summer event will return this summer to its normal spot on the calendar and normal location in front of Syracuse City Hall. The 2021 event is scheduled for the weekend of September 17, 18 and 19. Organizers of the festival, which usually hosts up to 20 restaurant vendors, hav...
Masculinity and faith intersect at a Brooklyn parish festival
Professor of religion Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada says that growing up in New York City she was always fascinated by street fairs. “There’s just a certain sort of magic about them,” she says. “You’re walking down the street, thinking it’s just a normal day, and all of a sudden you happen upon a saint’s procession or celebration. There are tents, speci...
Spotlight on: the Italian Cultural Institute of New York
With Fabio Finotti, the new Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, we continue our series of interviews with Directors of Italian Cultural Institutes for the ‘Spotlight on’ column on italiana.esteri.it. Fabio Finotti studied at the Scuola Normale in Pisa, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where he held th...
Frances Brigandi, known for her keen fashion sense, celebrates birthday No. 104 at the famed Palm Court at The Plaza
They say the third time is the charm. So when it came time for Frances Brigandi to celebrate birthday No. 104, her daughter, Rosemary Klein, and granddaughters Dr. Diane Klein and Dr. Christina Klein, who practice dentistry at Dynamic Dental in Great Kills, thought, ”Why not celebrate times three?” The awesome foursome initially celebrated at the P...
Exhibition at The Met to Explore Politics, Patronage, and Power in Medicean Florence
Opening June 26, The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570 will feature more than 90 works of art by some of the most celebrated artists of the Italian Renaissance, including Bronzino, Pontormo, Cellini, and many others Some of the greatest portraits of Western art were painted in Florence during the tumultuous years from 1512 to 1570, when the...
The Italian American Experience by OSDIA coming soon to the Italian American Museum
The New York State Order Sons of Italy Grand Lodge Foundation Inc. made their final installment of $40,000 on their $100,000 grant to the Italian American Museum for their new permanent exhibition, 'The Italian American Experience' which is scheduled to open Spring 2022 and will highlight the role of NYSOSIA in the community. This exciting commitme...
Washington Square Park statue of famous Italian vandalized
The statue of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi in Washington Square Park was vandalized, police said Friday. Cops say illegible graffiti was found Thursday spray-painted on three sides of the statue of Garibaldi, an Italian leader credited with helping to unify Italy in the 19th century. The Greenwich Village park has recently been embroile...
Fabrizio Di Michele a New York e il senso di appartenenza alla famiglia degli italiani
Da circa un quarto di Secolo, ogni quattro-cinque anni, varchiamo il portone del palazzetto signorile che a Park Avenue ospita il Consolato Generale di New York, per intervistare il nuovo “generale in capo” da poco arrivato. Prima per America Oggi, da otto anni per La Voce di New York, di consoli generali ne abbiamo visti tanti, tutti accoglienti,...
National Kidney Donation Organization appoints retired NYPD detective Michael Lollo as President
The National Kidney Donation Organization (NKDO) announces the appointment of retired NYPD Detective and Good Samaritan Kidney Donor, Michael Lollo to the position of President of NKDO. Michael Lollo is a 21-year veteran of the New York City Police Department who donated his kidney to a stranger in 2018, through the National Kidney Registry (NKR)....
Film about life of Mother Cabrini to be shot in Buffalo, hundreds of extras sought
The life of an Italian immigrant who later founded one of the largest charitable organizations in the world will be captured in a film that includes scenes to be shot in Buffalo beginning next month. Hundreds of people are sought to be hired as paid extras. The film, Cabrini, will be a biopic of Francesca Saviero Cabrini, who was later known as Fra...
A Taste of Little Italy Endicott
When: Wed, Jun 23rd 2021 at 5:00 PM EDT - Where: Little Italy Endicott Heritage Center, 109 Odell Ave, Endicott NY, 13760 - Organized By Little Italy Endicott A collaborative takeout meal from some of your favorite Northside restaurants. One price to have one offering from each of the following restaurants, all in one dinner.
Items from the Life and Times of the Marvelous Vito Marcantonio
Introduction to a series of remembrances about poet and Vito Marcantonio Forum co-founder Gil Fagiani, for the current edition of “Italian American Review,” which is created by the City University of New York’s Calandra Italian American Institute and published by University of Illinois Press: Gil Fagiani: Objectively Speaking The French existenti...