Floriano vince il titolo di Pesi Piuma a NYC e sul ring chiede a Stefania di sposarlo!
Giovedì 22 gennaio, Floriano Pagliara ha realizzato uno dei suoi sogni: all'incontro di boxe tenutosi al Webster Hall, "l'italiano" (così lo chiamano qui a NYC) ha sconfitto Antwan Robertson conquistando così il titolo di campione Wbu. Con la gioia e l'entusiasmo della vittoria ancora in gola, ha chiesto a Stefania di raggiungerlo sul ring...
Rome Through Richmond Town
The first Rome Through Richmond Town festival last October served as the replacement for the annual Columbus Day Parade, which had recently seen a drop in attendance. "I think it was an absolutely phenomenal time," Oddo said of last year's event. "It was so much broader in its scope, so much richer and fuller. The people who were there absolut...
DiPaolo’s, Lombardo’s to Mark Anniversaries at Italian Festival
By Tony Farina It is just about time for the annual Buffalo Italian Heritage Festival which will hold court on Hertel Ave. between Colvin and Delaware next week beginning Thursday (July 16) and running through Sunday (July 19), featuring all the great Italian food you can eat in addition to top local entertainment and the Miss Italian Fest...
New Park Slope Eatery Promises Not To Serve 'Fake Italian Food'
By Leslie Albrecht There won't be a statue of an old man with an enormous moustache holding a "sad-looking pizza" at the new Italian restaurant opening on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 11th Street, the co-owners told DNAinfo New York. The team behind Pastificio Flora say they plan to destroy that outdated stereotype at their eat...
Meet Maria Lisella, the New Queens Poet Laureate!
This past June, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz swore in Astoria resident and Queens native Maria Lisella as the new Queens Poet Laureate. Maria will be joining us at Central Library on Sunday, October 11 at 2:00 p.m. for our Open Mic for Poets. Maria Lisella is the sixth poet to serve as the borough's Poet Laureate. Born in S...
RAPSODIA ITALIANA: Music by Contemporary Italian Female Composers
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò24 West 12th StreetNew York, NY 10011 OCTOBER 21, 2015 - 06:00 PM With Rapsodia Italiana, pianist Alessandra Garosi returns to Casa Italiana to perform and present music for solo piano written by various female composers active in Italy during the 20th century. The styles of these composers range from post-Romanticism...
For a Local Sinatra, Construction, Crooning and Despair
By Noah Remnick Just after 1 a.m. on July 28, Leonora Russo woke to a commotion at her home in Howard Beach, Queens. First came the yelps of her daughter's Chihuahua, then the crash of her front door slamming shut. By the time she reached her window, Ms. Russo saw only a black Dodge Dakota receding into the night. At the wheel of...
Announcing the exhibition "Ancient Inspirations: Paintings by Vincent Baldassano" opening Feb. 18
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, February 18, 2016, 6pm. On view February 18, 2016-May 13, 2016. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. RSVP by calling (212) 642-2094. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - Queens College, CUNY - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor - New York, NY 10036 The paintings on ex...
A New York va In Scena! il teatro italiano
di Maurita Cardone New York sta per aprirsi un intenso maggio di cultura e l'Italia farà la sua parte portando in città una ventata di teatro. Torna infatti per il quarto anno il Festival di teatro italiano In Scena!. Dal 2 al 16 maggio cinque compagnie sfileranno nei teatri e nelle istituzioni dei vari distretti di New York per raccontare l...
Italian American Museum Presents “A Presepe For New York”
Nearly every Italian town has a Presepe but after the events of 9/11, New York received its very own. Named "Il Presepe della Pace" (The Nativity of Peace), craftsmen at the famed Ferrigno workshop in Naples created this 18th century style Presepe that represents everyday Neapolitan life symbolically surrounding the Holy Family. Naples has been th...
The home of heartbeats
Giovedì 9 maggio 20136.00 in EDT Italian Culture Institute of New York Seguso, the renowned Murano Company producing glass since 1397, along with the Italian Cultural Institute host a very special evening on Thursday, May 9 from 6 pm – 8pm with Mr. Giampaolo Seguso, Murano glass artist, poet and philosopher.
Festival in Valhalla harkens Italian roots
by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon For members of the Laperuta family, Westchester County's Italian Heritage Celebration at the Kensico Dam Plaza has become a family tradition — one they've honored for some seven years now. So it was no surprise that Dom and Karen Laperuta, both 51, of Yonkers were there with their two children at this year's event on S...