Pop's Espresso Bar: Now serving breakfast
Pop's Espresso Bar, the pastry shop and coffee bar in New Rochelle that's garnered a cult following for superbly rich coffee and its dannoli -- a doughnut stuffed with cannoli cream -- will start serving an all-day breakfast on April 19. And this is no ordinary bacon, egg and cheese joint. For the bacon, owner Giovanni Cucullo will braise...
Celebrating 40 Years of Italian Culture in America
by Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri and Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame Dear Friends and Colleagues: Each year, the Board of Directors of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc. (IHCC-NY, Inc.) selects a new theme and then proceeds to create a theme poster and publish its "Calendar of Events" for the annual October month celebrat...
Central New York Playhouse offers tough, challenging 'Melagrana' (Review)
By Neil Novelli Central New York Playhouse's newest production, Len Fonte's "Melagrana," which opened on Friday, is possibly their toughest, most challenging production to date. It is certainly among the most intense and gripping shows that have been performed in the area. Directed as well as written by Fonte, and set in modern Sicily near a...
Aromi Wine and Food taps into online grocery market
By Macaela J. Bennett Aromi Wine and Food launched its website in September, and it offers Italian meal packages and individual ingredients hand-picked by father and son team Fiore and Michael Screnci. The Screnci family moved from southern Italy to the United States in 1992. Fiore Screnci, father to three, described himself as a lifelong en...
L’Italian American Museum celebra la Festa di San Gennaro
L'Italian American Museum ricorda le celebrazioni che dal 13 al 23 settembre prossimi renderanno omaggio a San Gennaro. Il Museo in particolare proporrà la proiezione continua a più riprese di un video di durata di 10 minuti sulla storia e sul significato culturale della festa di San Gennaro. Tra gli appuntamenti segnalati dal Museo: nel pomerigg...
NEW YORK - 30 anni Fondazione De Fornaris, collezione in mostra
Per celebrare il suo trentesimo anniversario, la Fondazione De Fornaris, in collaborazione con l'Istituto italiano di cultura di New York e il Museo Gam di Torino, ha organizzato una mostra con una selezione dei pezzi migliori della sua collezione di arte moderna e contemporanea.Giorgio Morandi e Felice CasoratiL'esibizione, che verra' inaugurata i...
Al Pierre Hotel un Gala Italia di richiamo per centinaia di operatori del vino di qualità, ristoratori e stampa
By Riccardo Chioni Sul pennone del Pierre Hotel su Fifth Avenue giovedì sventolava il Tricolore in occasione della 29.ma edizione del Gala Italia svoltosi nella cornice della Grand Ballroom, con la partecipazione delle più qualificate aziende produttrici di vino. Al Gala Italia, a fare da contraltare al vino di qualità è stato il cibo proposto da...
American opera singer wants judge to unseal grandfather’s adoption records so she can get Italian citizenship
An aspiring American opera singer hoping to perform regularly in Italy is asking a Manhattan judge to unseal her grandfather's adoption records so she can prove that she is entitled to Italian citizenship. Kenneth Rose, a San Diego lawyer, says in a petition to Manhattan Surrogate Court that his whole family could benefit professionally from dual...
"Gli italiani nel Queens", dalle difficoltà alle conferme
Emigrazione e integrazione sono temi attuali. Oggi più che mai. Ed è giusto allora, soffermarsi a riflettere, studiare e analizzare temi legati alla tolleranza, all'accoglienza, al multiculturalismo e alla convivenza. Specie alla luce dei fatti, visto che sono più di quattro milioni i cittadini iscritti all'Anagrafe degli Italiani Resident...
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society's eight-day feast gets under way in Rosebank
On Friday evening, Steve Gross sat at his fish pond booth drawing on his pipe and waiting for customers, while the air was filled with the scent of grilled hamburgers and the sound of rock 'n' roll from DJ Vin D. Once again, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society's anniversary feast breathed life into the quiet little Rosebank neighborhood betwe...
Falls getting ready to celebrate its three-day Italian Festival
Three days devoted to Italian heritage are coming to the city next weekend. The annual Italian Festival runs Friday through next Sunday. Centered around the intersection of Pine Avenue and 15th Street, the event is billed as "Three Days of Tradition, Food & Music." The event includes more than 20 vendors selling food and other items....
Hip NYC Chefs Team Up With Italian Counterparts For Wine-Fueled Cooking Seminars
It's almost time for the fifth iteration of Identitá New York, the weekend of seminars and fancy dinners meant to nurture the collaboration of local chefs and their contemporaries in Italy. Eataly plays host to this gathering, which begins this year on October 9th and concludes on the 12th, during which time many plates of pasta, tomatoes, meats an...