San Carlino Theatre Company Presents The Three Little Pigs
Italian American Museum and San Carlino Theatre Company present: The Three Little Pigs. Saturday, June 25th, 6:30 P.M. Light refreshments will be served Children and their parents are cordially invited to attend a performance of The Three Little Pigs (in Italian) by the San Carlino Theatre Company at the Italian America...
An Italian Architect's Wild American Dream
Renzo Picasso shared his last name with legendary Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and his first name with another, more well-known Italian architect: Renzo Piano. But Renzo Giovanni Battista Picasso, born in 1880 in Genoa, Italy, was clearly his own man. An inventor, engineer, and designer with a taste for the fantastical, his whimsical and w...
Industria Superstudio Renovates West Village Spaces and Opens Two New Venues
As Industria celebrates its 25th anniversary, founder Fabrizio Ferri is remodeling his existing venues and introducing two additional spaces in Williamsburg. Industria Superstudio is changing and expanding. Both of the West Village photo studios and event spaces, which are located at 775 Washington Street and 356 West 12th Street, have been r...
3rd Bilingual Fair Celebrates The Bilingual Education Revolution
The 3rd Bilingual Fair in NYC will be held on October 15, 2016 at Hunter College (9am to 5pm). For the third year in a row, the bilingual education community will be in a single space. Founder, Emmanuel Saint Martin comments, "All over the US, more and more parents realize giving a bilingual education to their children is an amazing gift. We f...
NOZZOLIO'S NIGHT: Community pays tribute to retiring state senator
Politicians are known for "tooting their own horns," but Mike Nozzolio didn't have to do that during a tribute to him Thursday night at the Smith Center for the Arts. A brass band called the Hitmen did it for him, as did a number of speakers who paid homage to the retiring state senator, who at the end of 2017, will end a 34-year career in...
Una festa perfetta per lanciare la Italian American Baseball Family
di Marco Landi Incontri, sorrisi, abbracci, qualche occhio lucido, in una parola: emozioni, parola che può essere il titolo e la perfetta sintesi della serata di lancio della Italian American Baseball Family a Brooklyn, New York, l'8 dicembre, in un Carmine's Restaurant veramente gremito. Si celebrava l'inizio del percorso di avvicina...
Italians In America -- Lorenzo Da Ponte collaborated with Mozart
In a cemetery on the outskirts of New York City, a Jewish city council member, Italian-American dignitaries and history buffs honored a contemporary of Mozart. The gathering of such a diverse group of people and the twist of the story that ended in this old New York City cemetery on October 20, 1987 mirrored the various turns in the life of the hon...
Michelangelo Pistoletto at Luhring Augustine
New York's Luhring Augustine is to present "The Minus Objects 1965-1966″, and exhibition of early works by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. The exhibition will be on display at Luhring Augustine's Bushwick space until 11 May 2014. The Minus Objects – first exhibited in 1966, in the artist's studio in Turin – comprise a group of disp...
Donne che amano l'Italia (e 'odiano' lo stereotipo)
By Filippo Brunamonti La linea scelta dall'ENIT Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo di New York per rendere omaggio alla femminilità, italiana e non solo - in occasione dell'evento Why Women Love Italy (4 marzo scorso) - è una pedina indispensabile all'eterno duetto donna-uomo, campo contro-campo dalle imperdonabili banalità di giudizio. Difficile parla...
Legislature says Tony Danza is an outstanding Italian-American
Who says the state legislature can't agree on anything?Monday there was widespread support that Tony Danza, star of "Taxi" and "Who's The Boss", deserves an award. "You can be an Italian-American but you can't be an Italian-Russian or an Italian-Swede or an Italian-Frenchman, only in America," Danza said to an assembled crowd in the Legislative Of...
Vincent Pastore, actor, to lead Bronx Columbus Day Parade
A familiar face to many will be heading up Morris Park Avenue in a few weeks. The grand marshal of the 2014 Bronx Columbus Day Parade is Vincent Pastore, the actor best known for his role on The Sopranos. Pastore, a 3rd generation Italian-American, said he's proud to represent Italian culture and history at this year's Columbus Day Parade...
'My Italian Secret': Hamptons Review
Yet another fascinating, little-know story about the Holocaust is movingly related in Oren Jacoby's documentary about the role that Italians played in rescuing their Jewish neighbors during the height of the Nazi occupation. Relating the tales of such largely forgotten heroes as Italian cycling champion Gino Bartali and physician Giovanni...