Si prepara la Expo Milano 2015 dai grandi numeri, promozioni speciali per le visite degli italiani all'estero
by Riccardo Chioni A New York come in altre 180 sedi diplomatiche del mondo, nella ricorrenza del 2 Giugno l'Italia ha promosso l'esposizione universale delle grandi sfide, la Expo Milano 2015 che si svolgerà dal primo maggio al 31 ottobre del prossimo anno. L'Italia fa sistema sull'esposizione che vuole dare risposte alle sfide alimentari del mi...
Via Carota Turns Out To Be Mainly Italian and Mainly Delicious
After many thoughtful delays, adjustments of décor, menu tweakings, and downright experiments of all sorts on the part of chefs Rita Sodi and Jody Williams, Via Carota opened somewhat stealthily last week with little fanfare. A companion and I dined there Friday night, arriving when the door swung open at 5:45, figuring that was the way to...
A Kid from Philadelphia: Mario Lanza “The Million Dollar Voice”
The Italian American Club of Mahopac Is Proud To Feature An Audio-Visual Presentation On: A Kid from Philadelphia, Mario Lanza "The Million Dollar Voice"By Professor Emilio Iodice, Vice President of Loyola University ChicagoDirector John Felice Rome Center When: Friday, March 13, 2015Time: 7:30 PMWhere: The Italian American Clu...
First Look: Rocky Slims Brings Italian-American to Kips Bay
by Kelly Dobkin The gist: Brooklyn restaurant-hopping chef Angelo Romano (The Pines, Masten Lake) has surfaced at this new Italian-American inspired eatery in Kips Bay, owned by Drena and Tim Gashi of GL Hospitality Group. The space: The 45-seat spot was designed by Josh Held and sports an industrial look with reclaimed wood, retractable...
A Look at the 2015 Festa di San Giuseppe in Ridgewood, Queens
Hundreds gathered at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Ridgewood, Queens on Sunday (March 22nd) to celebrate the annual Festa di San Giuseppe. Mass was held in Italian by Father Thomas, followed by a procession through the neighborhood with marching bands and the saint's statue. Sponsored by the Associazone Cattolica Italiana di Miraculou...
Fiamma to open second restaurant in Rochester
by Mary Chao I just discovered Fiamma Pizza e Vino at 1308 Buffalo Road in Gates and found out that a second location will open in the Neighborhood of the Arts at Russell Street. It will be in the old factory building where Fashion Week hosted a runway show two years ago. Owner Giuseppe Paciullo confirmed that the second location...
MaxMara's 'architectural' clothing: The Italian fashion label has themed a collection around New York's Whitney Museum
by Kiki Georgiou MaxMara's camel cashmere double-breasted 101801 coat is a classic. Marcel Breuer's 1966 design for the now-old Whitney Museum of American Art on the Upper East Side's 75th street is a classic, too, in a different medium – one in which the new downtown Whitney, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, is currently joc...
CIMA closing weekend Festa!
Friday 26 – Saturday 27 June / 11:00 am – 8:00 pm Center for Italian Modern Art - 421 Broome Street, 4th floor - New York, NY 10013 - Tel. 646 370 3596 - email info@italianmodernart.org The Center for Italian Modern Art invites you to a Free Open House to celebrate the closing weekend of the Medardo Rosso/ Cy Twombly exhibitio...
Irish and Italian Catholics in New York – the definition of love/hate
If you visited Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last week, you will have seen a colorful reminder that certain sections of that borough were not always colonized by tattooed, pierced and bearded hipsters, with their bicycles and skateboards and skinny jeans. The parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel hosted its annual feast. It runs over a week and is...
Celebrate on September 8th the 12th Annual Festa for the Sicilian Black Madonna del Tindari
Il Comitato per il Ripristino della Festa della Madonna Nera cordially invites you to the Twelfth Annual Festa in Honor of the Sicilian Black Madonna del Tindari - Tuesday, September 8, 2015, 6PM at the Phoenix Bar, located at the former site of her devotion - 447 East 13th Street, off of Avenue A - Manhattan For t...
BMCC's Italian Program Enrollment is Among the Largest in the Nation
Professor Tom Means of the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Modern Languages Department recently discovered that the BMCC Italian program, in which enrollment has quadrupled since 2000, is the largest Italian program among community colleges, nationwide. Professor Means has also just published an article examining language learnin...
Restaurant Week pick of the day: Zero Otto Nove, Armonk
Zero Otto Nove brings classic, comforting Bronx Italian to Armonk. It's a spot that's just as friendly to families as it is to date nights or a post-work meal. Pizzas are pulled in and out from the wood-fired oven, a glittering jewel in the back of the dining room, which is flanked with heavy wooden trusses, dark wood, white marble counter tops an...