Nessuna conferma sulla visita del Papa in Usa dalla Santa Sede, ma la città si prepara ad accoglierlo
di Riccardo Chioni Personalmente, Papa Francesco recentemente ha espresso il desiderio di compiere un viaggio negli Stati Uniti e nonostante la Santa Sede non abbia ancora confermato la missione apostolica, nella Big Apple c'è già chi è in fermento e si sta adoperando per stendere il "tappeto bianco" al Citi Field, lo stadio dei Mets. Com...
FILM: Divorce Italian Style + Live Monologue: The Man From the South
Italian American Museum Presents SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE Divorzio all'Italiana (Divorce Italian Style) - Film Screening (Italian with English Subtitles) - Directed by Pietro Germi - Starring Marcello Mastroianni and L'Uomo del Sud (The Man From the South) "Man From the South" "Because I'm m...
Jazzin' around Barocco project
Paola Quagliata is a singer who has worked in many of Italy's most important opera houses. Her repertoire consists mostly of baroque and 18th century music, both of which she has studied in-depth and performed with renowned musicians such as Ottavio Dantone, Gabriel Garrido, E. L. Banzo, Rubèn Dubrovsky and Roberto de Simone. However, she als...
Vivaldi Restaurant and Ballroom in Bayside Queens a short trip from Bronx on Throgs Neck Bridge
By Patrick Rocchio A quick trip over the Throgs Neck Bridge brings locals still another option for dinning and catering, just minutes from Pelham Bay and surrounding communities. With a group of recent and upcoming events and a catering for families and parties on Thanksgiving Day, Vivaldi Ristorante, located in Bayside, Queens, is on...
Italian American Experience Lecture Series: Clash of Civilizations in Italy
Amara Lakhous, author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, examines the theme of identity through the descriptions of idiosyncrasies in multicultural Italy by way of a story of a murder in Rome. This is the last of 5 lectures in the Italian American Experience Series Fall 2014, New Books on Italian Americana pres...
Eugene Louis Faccuito, Creator of Jazz Dance Style, Dies at 90
Eugene Louis Faccuito, a dancer and choreographer whose physical reawakening after a paralyzing accident became the wellspring of an internationally renowned jazz dance technique, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause was cancer, said Francis J. Roach, the director of Luigi's Jazz Center, the school Mr. Faccuito founde...
Local Italian-American vets posts named for war dead
By Donna Thompson The names of some of the area's war dead are kept alive through the names of local veterans posts, including a pair of Italian-American veterans posts. The post now known as DeCarlo-Staffo Post No. 8 in Little Falls got its start in 1937 when a group from the Department of New York came to Little Falls and organized a...
Sicis a Manhattan: nuovo showroom sulla 5th Avenue
SICIS The Art Factory aprirà a breve un nuovo showroom di 5 piani sulla Fifth Avenue di New York. L'azienda ravennese leader nell'arte del mosaico, ha acquistato un building di 5 piani situato a 240 Fifth Avenue, nel cuore di NOMAD, il quartiere di Manhattan famoso per le atmosfere artistiche e gli eventi culturali. Lo showroom, che sarà pronto en...
Secrets of Eataly: Smuggled yeast, free wine and more
By Melissa Kravitz Here's why Eataly is so big: It's full of secrets. The 50,000-square-foot Italian food emporium serves around 15,000 visitors on weekdays and up to 25,000 visitors on weekends -- and that's not counting holidays! While you may have eaten your way through Eataly -- check out the Wednesday morning tours for the full...
Celebrate Italian Restaurants with Brindiamo! Restaurant Week from October 12-19, 2015
Please join us in wishing a happy 10th anniversary to public television show Brindiamo!, created by NOIAW member Ornella Fado. Brindiamo! shares the culture, lifestyle and cuisine of Italy in the U.S. with its viewers. This October, in honor of its 10th anniversary and Italian Heritage Month, the show will host the Brindiamo! Restaurant We...
A New York i tour operator si incontrano per promuovere il percorso arabo-normanno
Il riconoscimento di 9 monumenti di Palermo, Cefalù e Monreale come Patrimonio dell'Umanità da parte dell'Unesco e l'attrattiva turistica della Sicilia sono stati al centro di una serie di appuntamenti negli Stati Uniti cui hanno preso parte tra gli altri il sindaco Leoluca Orlando, il presidente di Gesap, Fabio Giambrone e l'As...
The Honorable Nissoli Welcomes a Group of American Students at Montecitorio
by Fucsia Nissoli "This morning, I hosted, in the Sala della Lupa in Montecitorio, a group of American university students led by Professor Mario Mignone of Stony Brook University, Professor Franco Maddalena of Westchester Community College, and Professor Matilde Fava of Farmingdale State College. Professor Mignone carries on a study abro...