Andrea Bocelli sets Barclays center record
Opera superstar Andrea Bocelli has set a new record by becoming the first artist in history to perform at the Big Apple's Barclays Center twice. The Italian tenor first played at the huge arena in Brooklyn, New York last year (12), and now he's set to return - setting a record as he goes. He tells the New York Daily News, "To be honest, wh...
Business Beat – Belmont BID: Selling Authentic Italian Traditions
For Bronxites and beyond, traveling to the Bronx's Little Italy is often compared to a trek to the old country. It's a destination. The smell of seasoned Italian sausage, blended with sights of Italian-named eateries and singers greeting its customers make the area a must-see. And behind a push to attract visitors to the destination is the Belmont...
Geneva Sons of Italy lodges appoint new councils
Two local lodges of the Order Sons of Italy in America installed their new 2014 councils in a joint ceremony on March 13. For the Geneva Men's Lodge 2397, Michael Cutillo was installed as president, while for the GAIL Lodge 2397A, Cindy Durso-Woodhams was installed as president. Read more Source: http://www.fltimes.com &nbs...
Mike Rossetti 2014 Pedulla Award Recipient For the St. Anthony’s Festival
This year's recipient of the St. Anthony's Festival Pedulla Award is Mike Rossetti. The award is given each year by The Pedulla Family is in honor of D.A. Pedulla, who gave so much time and energy to the Festival but always with a smile and sense of humor. The award is to honor a worker of St. Anthony's Festival who displays a sense of hum...
NYC Culture Guide: The 10 Best Italian Restaurants & Trattorias
Italian food is notoriously the food of the world, loved by all due to its traditional flavours and textures. In bustling New York City, Italian food is never far away. But, whilst the city may be renowned for Manhattan's Little Italy, this updated review of the top 10 Italian restaurants in NYC spreads its net a little wider to find those...
Il film ispirato a Dylan Dog sbarca oltreoceano
Dopo la versione americana del movie di Dylan Dog del 2010, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, arriva a New York la première internazionale di Vittima degli Eventi, il fan movie ideato da Claudio di Biagio e Luca Vecchi che si ispira liberamente al famoso fumetto italiano edito dalla Sergio Bonelli. L'appuntamento è per giovedì 13 novembre alle ore 18:00,...
Mario Fratti interpreting Edoardo de FIlippo - December 02, 2014 at 6:00 pm
In the balmy heat of late '40s of last century in Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her deathbed waiting to marry Domenico Soriano, the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years. But no sooner has the priest completed the ceremony, than Filumena makes a miraculous recovery. As he reels in shock, Domenico discovers that th...
Magic Books - The Secret Art of Book Hacking
Friday, March 13, 2015 - 6PMItalian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York TO RSVP PLEASE CLICK HERE We tune up engines and hack computers to improve their performances. What if we tuned up a book? Altering its structure and content, magical things may happen: volumes with movable parts, pages offering cinemat...
RFR Shows Off 285 Madison with Rare Italian Motorcycles Exhibit
We recently got a chance to take a look at the rare Italian motorcycles on display in the retail space at RFR’s 285 Madison Ave, called "The Art of the Italian Two Wheel.” The bikes belong to the curator of the show, designer and movie producer Stuart Parr, who goes way back with RFR principal Aby Rosen. The two met in 1987, when they bot...
Ecco il nuovo Whitney Museum
Un ritorno a casa: questo per l'architetto Renzo Piano rappresenta il trasferimento del Whitney Museum dalla sede sulla Madison Avenue al nuovo edificio nel cuore del Meatpacking District, a New York. Il nuovo Whitney, a cui sono stati tolti i veli alla presenza dell'archistar genovese che lo ha progettato, della curatrice Donna De Salvo, e del di...
Mayor Luigi De Magistris at the Calandra CUNY on Immigration: Naples Will Never Be a City Intolerant of Race or Culture
by Vincenza Di Maggio "He who loves cannot help but create better societies," said Luigi De Magistris, mayor of Naples, on Thursday evening at the Calandra Italian American Institute of the City of New York, directed by Dean Anthony Tamburri and where Italian-Americans gathered to hear him speak about the controversial issue of immigration...
Il ministro Galletti all'Onu e al Fancy Food
La lotta ai cambiamenti climatici e alla fame nel mondo: due sfide sulle quali l'Italia vuole agire da protagonista. Questo il messaggio del ministro dell'ambiente, Gian Luca Galletti, nel corso della sua missione a New York, dove ha visitato il Fancy Food 2015 e partecipato a una serie di incontri all'Onu. "Con Expo abbiamo fatto vedere a...