Wine tasting and competition
Sunday, March 15, 2015 @ 3:00PM - Italian American Club of Mahopac Members: Bring your homemade wine to enter the contest! Join us at the Italian American Club of Mahopac for an afternoon of fun, food and tradition! Members: bring one gallon of your white or red homemade wine for the judging contest and, of course, to share...
Mike the Barber
by Alfonso Guerrero jr. Old Italian barber shops in the United States are on the verge of extinction. For much of the 20th century, most big cities had many Italian barber shops. These barber shops and their trademark red, blue and white helical stripes or "barber's pole" signifying whether the shop is open or closed, was as ubiquitous as...
Evviva i Santi Medici!
By Giovanni di Napoli Sunday morning (Oct. 4th), I took a subway ride to Most Precious Blood Church (113 Baxter Street) in Manhattan's Historic Little Italy to attend the 112th Annual Feast of Saints Cosma and Damiano, patrons of San Cosmo Albanese in Calabria. This year, returning to their roots, organizers decided to forgo the annual Latin rite...
Presentation of the book "10 Italian stories"
Date: Saturday, December 05, 2015 - Hours: 11:30am Venue: Italian Cultural Institute of New York Organized by: ICI - In collaboration with: RAI Cinema- MoMa Film 10 ITALIAN STORIES is a table book created in collaboration with Rai Eri (RAI's publishing company), which includes the best images taken from the backstage of the ten movies th...
Meet the Italian Street Artist Who Paints Superheroes For Valentino
On Friday afternoon at the Valentino flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the Italian street artist known as Solo, 32, was puting the finishing touches on his "Wonder Woman" mural. He stood in the store's shimmering marble lobby wearing a paint-splattered jeans and a hoodie, looking up proudly at his work while customers looked inquisitively at t...
LUCA CIARLA violin, vocals live loops & electronics
When: Friday, June 17, 2016 From 6:30 pm to 8:00 pmWhere: Italian Cultural Institute of New York, 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021 Italian musician Luca Ciarla redraws the borders of jazz violin with a loop pedal, his voice and electronics. One by one, he performs live all the roles, playing his instrument like a guitar, a bass, or a percussion, u...
Regata di Salerno, la proposta di Arcobelli: 'Portiamola a NY per il Columbus Day'
Sport, storia e spettacolo si incontrano ad Amalfi (SA) in occasione della 61a Regata delle Antiche Repubbliche Marinare in programma domenica 12 giugno al clou di una serie di appuntamenti pronti a rendere la città della "Divina" Costiera, già ambita meta turistica, ancora più magica da visitare. Proprio in vista del ritorno sul Tirreno della sfi...
NYCFC’s Andrea Pirlo has top-selling jersey in MLS, David Villa and Frank Lampard also in top 10
Things are finally going well for NYCFC (if you don't count the stagnant stadium search): the second year club is first in the Eastern Conference and have three of the top-10 best-selling jerseys in MLS. NYCFC midfielder Andrea Pirlo has the No. 1 selling jersey on MLSSoccer.com, according to the midseason data, overtaking Seattle's Clint...
Suffern Italian Chef Launches Own Web Store Food Line
Suffern chef/owner Marcello Russodivito says cooks are at a disadvantage when cooking their regional Italian dishes without using quality ingredients. So a natural progression for the affable chef/owner of Marcello's Ristorante was to launch a gourmet food line, Chef Marcello Gourmet Imports. The web store features pastas, gluten-free...
Luigi's Restaurant, a popular Syracuse tradition for 62 years, is for sale
By Don Cazentre Luigi's Restaurant on Valley Drive, one of Syracuse's oldest Italian restaurants -- and probably one of the oldest of any kind -- is for sale. A real estate listing posted this week shows an asking price of $750,000 for the restaurant and building at 1524 Valley Drive. Luigi's has been operated by Louis "Luigi" Savastino a...
Viaggio nella cucina italoamericana: Buca di Beppo a Times Square
Quando Buca di Beppo ci ha invitati a provare il suo nuovo ristorante, proprio nel cuore di Times Square, sapevamo che avremmo fatto un'esperienza diversa dal tipico ristorante italiano. Vista la location e il nome, e il tripudio di tricolori, stavamo entrando esattamente in quell'altrove affascinante della cucina italoamericana! Mi rendo...
A New York un’esibizione di musica “Valtaro Musette”
L'Italian American Museum di New York (Mulberry street 155) ospiterà il 1° agosto alle ore 18.30 il duo musicale di fisarmonicisti formato da Dominic Karcic e Ray Oreggia per una performance dedicata alla musica "Valtaro Musette". I due da tempo si esibiscono e presentano questo tipo di tradizione musicale, rivolgendosi in particolare ad a...