The Bookstore That Bewitched Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Greta Garbo
When Rizzoli bookshop closed this past year on 57th Street, many people lamented its loss. It was the last really elegant shop of its kind left in Manhattan. But for some of us, while its closing was sad, it was a tempered sadness. After all it wasn't the real Rizzoli bookstore that had opened at 712 Fifth Avenue in the 1960s. That particu...
Massimo Didonna to Make Off-Broadway Debut in MY BIG GAY ITALIAN FUNERAL
Massimo Didonna is set to take on the role of "Ezio" in the hit Off-Broadway comedy "My Big Gay Italian Funeral" now in it's second year, opposite creator Anthony J. Wilkinson. Didonna is certainly no stranger to knowing how to entertain an audience and is ready to take on his first official acting role as the outspoken nightclub and funeral home o...
Al Westchester Italian Cultural Center Abruzzo e Molise in vetrina per un mese e mezzo
Per un mese e mezzo, dal prossimo ottobre, le eccellenze di Abruzzo e Molise saranno in vetrina a New York presso il Westchester Italian Cultural Center (WICCNY). Abruzzo & Molise, Yesterday and Today 2015: arte, cultura, tradizioni, artigianato, enogastronomia, rassegne espositive: il meglio delle due regioni, che fino al 1963 sono st...
Gei. A Cottarelli il Friendship Awar
Il direttore esecutivo del Fondo Monetario Internazionale, Carlo Cottarelli, è stato ospite del Gei - Gruppo Esponenti Italiani - a una colazione, tenutasi venerdì nella Stella Room del Ristorante Le Cirque di Manhattan. Nel corso dell'incontro il dott. Cottarelli ha ricevuto da Lucio Caputo, presidente della prestigiosa organizzazione che...
114 Year Old Tradition Returns To Little Italy Church
The Craco Society announces the feast of San Vincenzo, Martire di Craco will be held at the Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood after a 113 year hiatus. The Craco Society, a non-profit organization seeking to preserve the culture, traditions, and history of Craco, a southern Italian hill town located in the Province of Matera and the re...
Russo’s New York Pizzeria Opens 44th Restaurant in South Padre Island
South Padre Island, TX (Restaurant News Release) "Mangia Bene" South Padre Island! The most authentic Texas-based Italian eatery has just opened. Together with two sister locations in Galveston and Corpus Christi this 3rd New York Pizzeria strengthens the brand presence along the Texas Gulf Coast. One of South Padre Island's most highly an...
New Italian restaurant opening in East Hampton this fall
By Jennifer Gould East Hampton diners will soon have a new place to go after the beach. Sag Harbor's Dopo La Spiaggia, which means "after the beach" in Italian, will open a larger East Hampton outpost this October, Side Dish has learned. Chef and co-owner Maurizio Marfoglia will open the locally sourced, southern Italian-centric eate...
Review: Lemoncello mixes traditional, modern Italian food
By Amanda Antinore When the snow outside is furiously falling and temperatures are dropping by the minute, certain kinds of cooking can warm the soul from the inside out. For me, Italian comfort food is surely one of them, so I was happy when my friend and I found ourselves at Lemoncello in East Rochester during the very first big snowfall of the...
Primo summit Italy-Usa col ministro Grilli e gli AD di grandi aziende italiane per parlare di investimenti
di Riccardo Chioni Per spiegare agli americani l'Italia che sta cambiando, l'ideatore del primo summit annuale Fernando Napolitano, ha schierato ieri alla Peterson Hall nella Upper East Side i nomi più risonanti di leader e politici italiani al centro dell'attenzione per l'incontro "Italy Meets the United States of America", l'avvio di una...
Gianni Russo to Be Honored as Little Italy's 'Man of the Year' at Mulberry Street Mall Ribbon Cutting, 5/25
Summer in Little Italy will officially start on Saturday, May 25, with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 12 Noon marking the opening of the Mulberry Street Pedestrian Mall, it was announced by Ralph Tramontana, President of the Little Italy Merchants Association (LIMA) which has operated the Mall since its creation 25 years ago. The ceremony will take p...
Molto Bene! The Italian Festival rises again Aug. 2-4
Carmine Bianco is determined to revive the city's flagging Italian Festival, even if he has to do it single-handedly. And that may actually be how it plays out. The Niagara Falls High School gym teacher, who put on a mini-festival last year that revived the 35-year tradition of a festival in the city's Italian district, is returning this year...
The toughest restaurant reservation in the US
Think getting a reservation in your city's hot spot is tough? Just try to nab a meal at Rao's, which is so popular with its regulars that the phone lines never open. The tiny eatery in New York's East Harlem is "the toughest restaurant reservation in this country," writes Forbes' Larry Olmsted. The Italian restaurant only has about a dozen...