My Father's Fish Presentation by Mimi Aloia, Wed. Oct 1st @ Casa Belvedere
The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere presents a book talk and signing with author Mimi Aloia - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 @ 7 PM Q & A with the author will take place after the presentation. Copies of the book will be available and can be autographed. Suggested Donation: $20 pp. (Cash, check or credit card...
Long Island man says town fired him because he’s Italian
A Long Island man booted from his job as a deputy finance commissioner for the Town of North Hempstead announced Wednesday that he is preparing to sue the municipality because, he says, he was fired for being Italian. Angelo Ferrara, 66, has filed a notice of claim and complaint with the state's Division of Human Rights alleging the town d...
Seneca South: Italian American fest seeks new ideas
by Glenda Gephart The Schuyler County Italian American Festival is looking for new ideas and new volunteers. The festival, in its 36th year in 2015, has set this year's dates for Friday, July 31, and Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 1 and 2. Louis Perazzini of Watkins Glen, 2015 committee president, said in a news release that the g...
Bartenura Moscato delivers thousands of blue roses to unsuspecting New Yorkers!
Bartenura Moscato is hitting the streets of New York and handing out thousands of specially grown blue roses that match its iconic blue bottle this Thursday and Friday (2/12 and 2/13) as a thank you for making Bartenura Moscato the best-selling Italian Moscato in America. Locations where Bartenura will be handing out roses throughout the d...
Mommy and Me Bilingual STEM program
by Elisabetta Grasso A resent research has demonstrated that positive cognitive gains are associated with learning a second language in childhood. Starting from this particular statement the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum has decided to initiate a STEM bilingual program for children between two and a half and four years old in a true bilingu...
Italian director Giovanna Taviani comes to RIT
by Greg Livadas Giovanna Taviani, a celebrated Italian film director, will be an artist-in-residence at Rochester Institute of Technology, which sponsored her visit to Rochester to show her film, "Ritorni (Homecomings)," at the High Falls Film Festival. "Other than being a director, she has created a documentary film festival in Sicily an...
Perreca’s baking traditional panettone every day, right up until Christmas
By Karen Bjornland In a small back room at Perreca's Bakery in Schenectady, Maria Perreca Papa is in a jolly mood. The coals in her 100-year-old brick oven are red-hot and the aroma of rum and raisins is in the air. On this morning, the rich, cream-colored dough is rising nicely, and Papa hovers over the 44 round pans, which are big...
Ridendo e scherzando - Ettore Scola
Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 6:00 pm. Italian Cultural Institute of New York. 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10021 - USA. Organized by : ICI. Entrance : Free. Book now! Screening of the documentary film Ridendo e Scherzando, a tribute to the late director and screen-wright by his daughters, portraying an intellectual w...
Italian American Democratic Leadership Council Endorses Bill de Blasio for Mayor of New York City
The Italian American Democratic Leadership Council (IADLC), the voice of Italian Americans in the Democratic Party, endorses Bill de Blasio for Mayor of New York City. As the elected Public Advocate, he is already the highest ranking city official of Italian heritage in NYC. Bill is very proud of his Italian heritage– his family is from east of N...
Linear Genius, Bold and Transformative
by Miriam Bale "Every time we take the subway in New York, we're in Vignelli-land," says Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, in the new documentary "Design Is One." Ms. Antonelli is referring to the Italian couple Lella and Massimo Vignelli, whose firm designed many graphic elements for t...
Federico on my Mind: Fellini in mostra a New York
di Chiara Zaccherotti Se a Ray Charles bastava una vecchia canzone per farsi tornare in mente la dolce Georgia, le suggestioni che si scatenano con "l'artigiano che non ha niente da dire, ma che sa come dirlo" sono innumerevoli e ancora oggi vive in tutto il mondo. Federico on my Mind è il titolo della mostra con cui, nell'ambito...
Groppelo's Itallian food with a Brazilian flavor
Groppelo's is a classic american success story with a great back story. Maury Soares, a youthful hospitality pro, came to america by way of Brazil. His uncle had an italian restaurant for 40 years, near Rio De Janeiro where Maury worked for 6 years and learned the hospitality business. Prior to his emigrating to the U.S., his grandfather t...