Italian Club of Staten Island celebrates 2015 honorees
At age 65, The Italian Club of Staten Island Foundation, Inc., is still going strong. The time-honored organization played host to its 64th annual Dinner Dance Friday, April 10 in Nicotra's Ballroom of the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield, where some 170 revelers came out to party heartily, laud the evening's honorees and to raise their glasses i...
“The Italian Chicks” Variety Show Opens Tour at Bellmore Movies & Showplace
Presented by actor Danny Aiello, The Italian Chicks Musical-Comedy Variety Show opens its East Coast tour on June 7tht, 2015 at the Bellmore Movies & Showplace at 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY. It is a one-night only comedy and song event that kicks off their east coast tour which will continue in major cities in New York, Rhode Island, Massa...
Italian Nude for $30.5 Million at Sotheby's
by Katya Kazakina A sumptuous painting by the 17th century Italian artist Orazio Gentileschi, showing a young nude woman about to be showered with gold, sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum for $30.5 million at Sotheby's in New York. The price for "Danae," which was commissioned in 1621 and recently hung at the Metropolitan Museu...
The touch behind the image: on New Imagery in Italian Art at the Guggenheim Collection
What becomes of contact in a world of images? With the advent of mass culture in the 1960s, the image became the basic unit of consumption. Television sets, billboards and flimsy magazine spreads extended promises of opulence that remained, by design, out of reach. Imagine: New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969, a thoughtful show at the Peggy Guggen...
Boglioli chooses New York for first mono-brand store
According to fashionnetwork.com, Italian fashion label Boglioli has opened its first mono-brand store in New York's NoHo district. New York is the perfect city for our project, stated Boglioli's President and CEO Giovanni Mannucci. We could not hope for a better setting: 10 Bond Street - he continued - is the right location to g...
Empire State Building. Agli italiani il contratto di manutenzione
Chissà cosa avrebbero detto i fondatori della CPL Concordia, cooperativa storica della provincia di Modena, se nel 1899 avessero loro detto che 114 anni dopo la società avrebbe fatto la manutenzione del più famoso dei grattacieli di New York, l'Empire State Building. A un anno dal terremoto che sconquassò l'Emilia, la coop ha annunciato la costituz...
Tributo Ferrari An Iconic New York Rally From Battery Park To Bridgehampton
Ferrari is hosting owners and admirers of its mythic sports cars on a rally from New York's Battery Park to Bridgehampton on the East End of Long Island. Today over 60 models of the Italian performance car and their owners are expected to run in the Tributo Ferrari, with the ultimate destination being the Bridgehampton Polo Club to celebra...
Tutto quello che l'Italia ha da offrire
By Maurita Cardone La promozione dei territori italiani è l'obiettivo delle attività dell'Enit, Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo, che da tempo ci ha abituati a eventi organizzati per far conoscere le regioni della penisola e le loro ricchezze. Ma questa volta l'agenzia del turismo ha deciso di fare le cose in grande e riunire tutta l'Italia in un uni...
Bronx's Arthur Avenue Offers True Taste Of Italy
By Valarie D'Elia Don't get me wrong, I loved my recent trip back to my Italian roots. But when I learned that NYC & Co, the city's tourism arm, was reaching out to feature Arthur Avenue in the Bronx as part of its Neighborhood By Neighborhood campaign, I was there in a New York minute. It might seem like central casting, but it's the rea...
Nazareth's Casa Italiana Brings Italian Film Maker to Rochester, Jan. 29-30
Nazareth College's Casa Italiana is teaming up with Italian Cultural Institute in New York City and the University of Rochester's Modern Languages and Cultures to bring film director Fred Kuwornu to Rochester for screenings of his films Inside Buffalo and 18 IUS Soli on January 29 and January 30. Both screenings are free and open to the pu...
5th Annual Italian Feast and Carnival, Hosted by the Blauvelt Sons of Italy, Scheduled for September 11–14; Live Entertainment, Italian Food, Rides, Games, Artisans
The Blauvelt Sons of Italy will host the 5th Annual Italian Feast and Carnival this September 11th through the 14th. The event draws thousands of people from around the tri-state area during the four day celebration of all things Italian. Opening Day, Thursday, September 11th, will feature a tribute to the fallen heroes of 9/11 at 5:30pm....
On Columbus weekend: 'Rome Through Richmond Town'
By James S. Oddo Several times since I began working at Borough Hall, my Mom has welled up with emotion, telling me how proud my grandfather would have been to see me become the Borough President. She was speaking of her Dad, Edward Galbo, who left Sicily in 1902 for the promise of a better life in a new land. When he arrived, he...