La XX Way of the Cross attraverso il Brooklyn Bridge nel Venerdi' Santo seguita da duemila fedeli in una interminabile processione
di Riccardo Chioni Come venti anni fa, quando una trentina di fedeli di Comunione e Liberazione si avviarono sul ponte di Brooklyn per la prima processione del Venerdì Santo, anche ieri il cielo era grigio con pioggia a tratti, che tuttavia non ha dissuaso oltre duemila persone a seguire la Croce nel suggestivo percorso. La processione, p...
Columbus Day at Italian Civic League
The Italian Civic League is hosting its annual banquet in honor of Cristoforo Colombo Oct. 12 at Diplomat Banquet Center,1956 Lyell Ave. in Gates. The ceremony starts at 11 a.m. with the flag raising at noon. The keynote speaker will be State Assembly majority leader Joseph Morelle. The host club is Sons of Italy and there are 15 Ital...
Andrea Bocelli Delivers Impromptu Times Square Performance, Raises $500 For Homeless
After learning of the severe level of homelessness in New York City, wold renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli took to the streets of the city to deliver an acoustic guitar performance. Bocelli managed to raise over $500 from the short impromptu Times Square performance, which he immediately proceeded to donate to a homeless person. The sing...
Gina DePalma, Acclaimed Pastry Chef at Babbo, Dies at 49
by William Grimes Gina DePalma, a pastry chef whose artfully simple Italian desserts helped make Babbo in Greenwich Village one of Manhattan's most beloved and admired restaurants, died on Tuesday at a hospice in the Bronx. She was 49. The cause was ovarian cancer, her sister, Maria DePalma, said. Ms. DePalma credited her mot...
Children Can Learn Italian Culture At Mahopac Club
by Ken Davis The Italian American Club of Mahopac is offering children ages 2 -13 the opportunity to learn all about Italian culture. Classes will focus on different themes and immerse children into the Italian language and culture through hands-on activities, speaking, reading and writing. Classes will be taught by a New Yor...
Michael Capasso and the rebirth of the New York City Opera
Music, an integral part of the Italian who migrates, makes its way through the generations of a new youth, like a gentle reminder and an historical and cultural identity that excites and inspires modern paths of personal development. With his grandparents and great-grandparents from the Campania region as accomplices, the New Yorker, Micha...
Columbian Lawyers Association, 1st Department celebrates Chief Judge DiFiore
by Rob Abruzzese To celebrate the appointment of the first Italian-American chief judge in the state of New York, Hon. Janet DiFiore, the Columbian Lawyers Association, First Judicial Department held a yacht party aboard the Atlantis out of Pier 81 in Manhattan on Monday night. "We are thrilled and privileged to welcome the chief judge,"...
The old Savoia: Now that’s Italian!
by Ron Marzlock The Savoia, steeped in the tradition of great Italian restaurants and superior cuisine, served everyone from monsignors from Rome to Willie Mays of the New York Mets. The building it was in, on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, started out in life as the Hong Hand Laundry. In 1939 The Savoia was born and started serving visitor...
On Chippewa, Frankie Primo’s offers a sophisticated touch of Italy
A restaurateur returns from Italy with dreams of reproducing the trip's most memorable meals. It's a restaurant cliché old as candle-corked Chianti bottles. Yet Frankie Primo's +39, inspired by Jay Manno's tour of Rome and the Amalfi Coast, does more than avoid cliché. It provides a zone of respite and rejuvenation in a sheltered nook off of one of...
A Bronx Tale: Chazz Palminteri's tales of life in the Bronx make their Broadway musical debut.
West Side Story made us believe in ballet-dancing gangs. Les Misérables successfully musicalized the deadly Paris Uprising of 1832. Sweeney Todd even held onto its darkness through songs about pie. So, does Chazz Palminteri's autobiographical account of his 1960s Bronx upbringing translate to a world where mob bosses croon and locals pirouette thro...
Il Molise si presenta a New York
La Regione Molise e la Provincia di Campobasso hanno presentato con enorme successo a New York, di fronte ad un pubblico di oltre settanta fra agenti di viaggio, tour operators e giornalisti specializzati nei campi del turismo e della enogastronomia, le eccellenze naturali, culturali e artistiche della regione, finora non sufficientemente conosciut...
Icona tra gli Italo-americani di New York vi presentiamo la cantante Giada Valenti
La cantante Giada Valenti tornerà in Italia quest'estate per una serie di concerti, il primo dei quali al Teatro Russolo di Portogruaro, in provincia di Venezia, città natale dell'artista. Ancora da definire sono le date e il programma completo dei concerti che seguiranno, ma l'intento è quello di partecipare a festival e rassegne per far conoscere...