Fratelli's Trattoria offers northern Italian cuisine in Croton-on-Hudson
The experience the newly-opened Fratelli's Trattoria wants to deliver is "basically, home away from home," co-owner John Lluka said. The eatery, which he said specializes in northern Italian cuisine, opened about a month ago in the 8 Old Post Road space that Hopscotch restaurant used to occupy. It's a visible location in the heart of the village's...
Renowned Cosmos soccer team faces possible extinction
The good news for the New York Cosmos is that the storied soccer team's move to Brooklyn has paid dividends, with attendance perking up by nearly 30% this season, to 4,855 per game. Trouble is, that's only about a fifth as much as local rivals NYCFC and the Red Bulls draw. And the Cosmos' dream of playing on equal footing with those franchises suff...
Serving a slice of Pueblo, NY; Angelo's celebrates 20 years in business
It's New York-based pizza with a little Pueblo flare, "And-a-More." Angelo's Pizza Parlor And-a-More, which celebrated its 20-year anniversary on Aug. 14, has become one of the hallmark restaurants along the cool waters of the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk of Pueblo. The name of the popular pizza joint -- which claims to have served 1,642,018 pizzas...
Volunteers Cooking Up A Storm For Italian Festival
It's a big draw at the Bravo Italiano Festival in Watertown - the food. Volunteers are in the kitchen all week preparing Italian dishes for the this weekend's festivities. On Wednesday, they were cooking up meatballs in homemade sauce, making tripe and clam sauce and preparing 270 pounds of Italian sausage. "The sausage torpedo is a booth that's ve...
Pamela Quinzi, Italian Fashion Designer New York Fashion Week 2017
Pamela Quinzi, Italian fashion designer from Rome, based in New York since 2009 presented her new Kilame Collection dresses and shoes during New York Fashion Week 2017. The fashion show took place at Megu, the prestigious Japanese Restaurant and event space inside the famous Dream Hotel, downtown Manhattan in the meatpacking district. Location excl...
A Look at Caffe Marchio, Danny Meyer’s Casual Roman Cafe Opening Monday
It’s been a year of casual restaurant openings for Danny Meyer and Union Square Hospitality Group — places like Martina and Daily Provisions that are intended to feed more people, faster, for less money. Next up in the mix is Caffe Marchio, a new Roman-style stand-up coffee bar in the Redbury Hotel, opening on Monday. Like Union Square Cafe’s siste...
Celebrate All Things Italian at San Gennaro
For the 91st time the Feast of San Gennaro, a faith-based celebration honoring the Patron Saint of Naples, Italy, takes place in the neighborhood of Manhattan affectionately known as “Little Italy” (Mulberry Street between Canal and Houston Streets; the festival stage is located on the corner of Grand and Mott Streets). It is a much-anticipated eve...
Christopher Columbus statue defaced in Central Park
A vandal defiled a larger-than-life statue of Christopher Columbus in Central Park on Tuesday, leaving “blood”-red paint on the explorer’s hands and scrawling “Hate will not be tolerated” on its pedestal. The vandal also left an apparent threat at the base of the 7-foot-tall bronze: “#somethingscoming.” A worker for the Central Park Conservancy, th...
Announcing The Anthony D'Andrea Festa & Motori D'Italia Event 9/23 & 9/24
Dear Friends, on behalf of the Board of Governors of The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, I am honored to announce that the Foundation’s upcoming Festa D’Italia and Motori D’Italia weekend on September 23rd & 24th has been renamed The Anthony D’Andrea Festa & Motori D’Italia. At Casa Belvedere, we're all about honoring and memorializi...
Global Legacies: Pirandello across Centuries and Media
Saturday September 16, 8 Am - 6 PM. Hunter College, 695 Park Ave, New York 10065. This one-day conference, sponsored by the Pirandello Society of America and generously hosted by Hunter College, brings together scholars and performers to celebrate the continuing legacy of Luigi Pirandello's work 150 years after his birth. The conference includes ac...
Italian streetwear label makes 'dream' NY debut
Top-flight American talent may have deserted New York Fashion Week this season, but it's still the dream for at least one up-and-coming Italian designer who made his Big Apple debut Friday. GCDS -- aka "God Can't Destroy Streetwear" -- unveiled a fun, flirty fantasy inspired by Truman Capote's novel "The Swans of Fifth Avenue" on the second day of...
The Pirandello Institute, an Italian Frontier in Upstate New York
To the people of physically and spiritually impoverished Gagliano in the Basilicata, it seemed that Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi wrote in his classic eponymous memoir, and it can feel the same for those seeking Italian culture outside of New York City. Italian-American social and cultural associations abound in the Tri-State area, to be sure...