Eataly Hosts Italian And American Chefs For Cooking Demos, Six-Course Dinners
American chefs and their Italian counterparts are teaming up once again for the fourth annual Identita New York, a three day series of cooking demonstrations and fancy dinners taking place in early October at Eataly. Mario Batali, Daniel Boulud and Sara Jenkins are a few of the chefs representing the States with Massimo Bottura, Mauro Ulia...
Saks selects winning men's fabrics
The competition was stiffer this time around and Dormeuil and Fratelli Tallia di Delfino came out on top, as reported by wwd. The mills were chosen by a panel of experts at Saks Fifth Avenue and The Woolmark Co. in the store's second annual Fabric No. 1 Awards. The contest is designed to choose the season's finest made-to-measure fabrics for suits...
Bill de Blasio Goes Into All-Out Italian Mode for Columbus Day Parade
by Colin Campbell "Buongiorno!" Bill de Blasio exclaimed as he began a speech today. "Viva Italia!". The front-running mayoral candidate's Italian heritage was on full display this afternoon when he made an appearance at the end of the annual Columbus Day Parade in Bensonhurst, a neighborhood that was once the heart of Brooklyn's Ital...
Angiolillo, una rielezione doverosa
Sembra che tutti quelli che conoscono Daniel Angiolillo, giudice del nono distretto della Corte Suprema di New York siano d'accordo non solo sulla sua personalità, umile e decorosa, sul suo ruolo di marito premuroso e padre affettuoso, ma anche sulla sua carriera professionale, quella di un giurista e giudice che negli ultimi vent'anni ha servito e...
Grande successo per Vinitaly International a New York
Grande successo per la prima tappa 2014 di Vinitaly International che, proprio ieri, ha animato il Metropolitan Pavillion di New York con la presenza di oltre 110 cantine italiane affiancate dai principali importatori locali. Nel corso dell'evento, inaugurato con la tradizionale Cerimonia d'apertura alla presenza del Console Generale della...
Tenure Track Position in Italian Studies at Stony Brook University
The Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of Stony Brook University invites applications for a tenure track position in Italian Literature and Culture at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning Fall 2014. The candidate should have a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree, matched by a strong publication record with primary exper...
Siciliana: Studies on the Sicilian Ethos and Literature by Gaetano Cipolla
The present volume, which has a moving image by Giulia Di Filippi on the cover and which the author dedicated to his wife Florence, is number 27 in the "Sicilian Studies" series, published by Legas and directed by Gaetano Cipolla. This is a revised and expanded edition of the volume published with a slightly different title in 2005. Following the...
Dante Society offering trip to NYC
When former Dante Society President Lou Toscano was recovering from knee replacement surgery he had more than some time on his hands. He had a good idea. Why not a society-sponsored trip to New York? "The Dante Society used to regularly run bus trips to museums and events and we hadn't done it in quite a while," said Toscano, who is on the ema...
Presentation of the book: My Two Italies
Presentation of the book: My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014), by Joseph Luzzi. A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this Bel Paese, "Beautiful Land," where artistic genius and political corruption have gone hand in hand from the time of Michelangelo to The...
Staten Island’s Tough-Guy Congressman Faces Somebody His Own Size
Domenic Recchia thinks there's something for everyone to loathe about the man he wants to unseat in Congress, Michael G. Grimm. There is that 20-count federal indictment, for starters, that accuses Mr. Grimm, a two-term Republican from Staten Island, of employing illegal immigrants and hiding around $1 million in sales and wages at his Man...
Nazioni Unite: Giampaolo Pioli nuovo Presidente dell'UNCA
Al Palazzo di Vetro, l'Associazione dei corrispondenti alle Nazioni Unite (UNCA) ha eletto come nuovo presidente Giampaolo Pioli, corrispondente del "Quotidiano Nazionale" dagli Stati Uniti. Con un largo consenso, Pioli torna alla guida dell'organismo di rappresentanza e tutela dei giornalisti che lavorano alle Nazioni Unite. Pioli, che av...
La storia della sartoria italiana raccontata da Vicki Vasilopoulos
Il mistero della creatività dei grandi maestri sarti italiani, la loro passione e devozione per un'arte che rasenta la religiosità e che nei secoli ha insegnato lo stile italiano al mondo, sono gli ingredienti primari del documentario "Men of the Cloth" di Vicki Vasilopoulos, la cui prima newyorkese sarà tenuta giovedì 8 gennaio 2015 presso il Vill...