Fig Fest 2015: It's about to happen on Staten Island
by Pamela Silvestri Staten Island's elusive Fig Fest is back again for its fifth year. As the crowd grew too large for the original venue (the Turtle Fountain at Midland Beach), a private venue has been sought ever since. The celebration will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 15, starting at 6 p.m. — that's an hour earlier than usual — at...
Step Inside La Mangiami, New York's Coolest Disco Dining Hang Out
by Josh Baines New York, New York. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. The home of the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, and a branch of M&M's World. We've never been but we've heard all about it. Our friends have told us it's really cold in the winter and really hot in the summer and that you can buy face-sized slices of pizza...
Cerame's serves old-school classic Italian
Offering old-school classics made with family-tested and -approved recipes and techniques, Cerame's Italian Villa in Brighton has been in business for 40-plus years. Upon entering the restaurant in Winton Place Plaza, we were greeted by a dimmed display case, filled with pre-sliced cakes and cannoli and serving as a partition between the b...
Making Sauce, Chasing Chickens Is My Destiny
By Gina Barreca Destiny: Those parts of your life you can't escape no matter how hard you've worked to avoid them. I was making tomato sauce the other afternoon just as my Sicilian grandmother taught me: searing the sausage and the chopped meat in separate frying pans while getting the olive oil, garlic, parsley and the oregano ready in other...
Curveballs and Cannolis
Enzo Idello is a baker who wants to pitch in the major leagues. To achieve his dream, Enzo must defy his father, who runs the family bakery, and the ghost of his great grandfather, who founded Idello Bakery in Italy in 1829. Will curveballs bring Enzo more fulfillment than cannolis? Or will the love of family and a childhood crush make Enzo feel fu...
Renzo Arbore chiude la locandina degli avvenimenti per la festa della Repubblica al Consolato Generale
di Riccardo Chioni Bagno di folla al Consolato Generale nella serata di domenica per lo showman Renzo Arbore, giunto per la presentazione di Umbria Jazz, a conclusione della giornata di festeggiamenti per la festa della Repubblica, evento inserito nel quadro dell'Anno della Cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti. Il console generale N...
New dates for Santa Rosalia festival
by Helen Klein In a turnaround from prior plans, the Santa Rosalia festival will run for as many days and as many blocks along 18th Avenue as it had previously, but it will be held in the middle of August, instead of the end of the month, which community activists hope will ease problems that have been associated with the long-running even...
Italian Feast Preparations
A massive Italian feast will be served in Utica this weekend. Thousands will make the pilgrimage to St. Anthony's church for the 102nd annual feast, all to honor the saints Cosmas and Damian. To feed the thousands, preparations are now in full swing. People at the feast will be asking St. Cosmos and Damian's for good health. One local Ital...
Arnaldo Mondadori: a Publisher's mark across the history of Italy
The Mondadori, Italy's largest publishing group, has a history, as is the case for almost all large industries, closely linked to the life of one man, in this case the "boy printer" Arnoldo Mondadori who in 1907, when he was still very young, began his career as a publisher in Ostiglia, a small village in the Lombardy countryside. The expa...
An evening with Mario Fratti - November 6, 2014 at 7:00pm
Internationally acclaimed playwright and drama critic Mario Fratti, best known for the musical Nine and winner of seven Tony awards, will present his publications Twenty-Eight Unpredictable Plays. Unpredictable Plays features 28 Plays, and at least 28 Surprises. Dry, sly, provocative plays presented by the master of unpredictability, Mario Fratti....
San Francesco arriva a New York e annuncia Papa Francesco
Quando il cardinale argentino Jorge Bergoglio è stato nominato Papa e ha deciso di adottare, per la prima volta nella storia millenaria della Chiesa cattolica il nome di Francesco, ha inaugurato il suo pontificato con un gesto di alto profilo. Come è noto infatti, il nome che un Papa decide di assumere per la più alta carica del Cristianes...
Zero Otto Nove In Armonk Is Old School Italian, Without Irony
It's hard to do old-school Italian with a straight face nowadays. It's been that way since Manhattan's Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi opened their three odes to Italian-American cuisine: Torrisi Italian Specialties, Carbone, and Parm. These restaurants dared to admit that, sure, the mid-century Italian joints of our grandparents' generatio...