Boys’ & Girls’ Towns of Italy 68th Annual Spring Ball Raises over $600,000
Boys' & Girls' Towns of Italy a non-profit that empowers war refugee, migrant, and at-risk youth living on the streets of Italy, is thrilled to announce that it raised over $600,000 at its 68th Annual Spring Ball on Thursday, April 11th, 2013 at The Pierre Hotel. The funds will be used for BGTI's innovative youth development program where young...
$50 veal parm and why Carbone is New York's hottest restaurant right now
An actual person answers the phone at Carbone and tells you that they book tables 30 days out. The person is even affable. This is notable because Carbone, on the premises of an old Italian-American joint named Rocco's in Greenwich Village, is easily the hottest restaurant of the moment in New York and getting a reservation is only slightly less di...
A Look at the 6th Annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Corona, Queens
By Giovanni di Napoli Saturday, I made my way to Corona, Queens for the 6th Annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, an intimate celebration with plenty of delicious food, fun games and live entertainment. Warmly welcomed, I met many good-hearted and friendly people. I especially enjoyed talking to some of the older participants who glowi...
Italian-Americans Return to East Harlem So That St. Anthony’s Tower Can Rise Again
Among the items raised on Sunday at a festival in East Harlem — aside, of course, from the giglio, an 83-foot-tall wooden tower built in honor of St. Anthony of Padua — was a question of moral geography: Do New Yorkers actually have to live in a neighborhood to claim it as their own? The overwhelming answer, at least according to the members of th...
Fundraising dinner: Wounded to death
The Confederation of Italian Entrepreneurs Worldwide (CIIM) and Mismaonda invite you to a fundraising dinner to support Ferite a Morte (Wounded to Death), a project that aims to sensitize people and institutions about violence against women. Proceeds from this event will go towards funding a future reading of this work at the United Nations. Seren...
La Puglia Center of America organizza la rinomata cerimonia di premiazione, alla sua quarta edizione
La Puglia Center of America è felice di annunciare che il prossimo 13 Marzo 2014, presso il ristorante Etcetera Etcetera di Manhattan, si terrà la quarta edizione del Puglia's Italy Award of Excellence in America". Il Puglia Center of America award è riconosciuto a personalità nate od originarie della Puglia, che attraverso la loro carriera hanno...
Un vino maturo per un'America matura per il vino
di Maurita Cardone È profondamente radicato nel territorio da cui ha origine e che gli regala quel sapore così distintivo. Viene da una ristretta zona dell'Umbria di cui è diventato uno dei migliori biglietti da visita. Il Sagrantino di Montefalco è un vino di carattere ed è con tutta la sua ricca personalità che si presenta agli americani...
Commemorating the Lives of Italian-American, Non-Traditional Social Workers, From East Harlem
by Joseph LoGiudice The social work profession has a history in the United States for promoting the dignity, diversity, inclusion, and equality for those individuals, families, and communities who have experienced oppression, discrimination, and injustice. My experiences with poverty, homophobia, ethnic prejudice, and stigma were...
Closing: Portraits of a Sicilian Family by Thomas MacPherson (2)
Source: Exhibition Closing: Friday, June 13, 2014 On view from March 20, 2014–June 13, 2014 Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm Portraits of a Sicilian Family is an exhibition of egg-tempera portraits focused on the exploration of painter Thomas MacPherson's Sicilian-American identity. The paintings are composite images derived fr...
Famed Brooklyn sandwich shop comes to Staten Island, opens this weekend
by Pamela Silvestri Construction is almost complete on Defonte's Sandwich Shop in Stapleton. The family operation, known for its original store in Red Hook established 93 years ago, plans to open Saturday, Dec. 13. "The first couple of weeks will be a little hectic," predicts co-owner Phil Defonte. But with a staff of seasoned wor...
Book Presentation: ITALIAN FASCISM'S EMPIRE CINEMA – April 9, 2015
In Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema, Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy’s African and Balkan colonies. These “empire films” were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The fil...
Bronx Little Italy Art Show
Sunday June 28 - 11 am/4 pm EDT - Bronx Little ItalyArthue Avenue & East 187th St, The Bronx 10458Bronx Little Italy will host its first Art Show on Arthur Avenue between East 187th Street and Crescent Avenue on Sunday, June 28th from 11am-4pm. Come to the neighborhood for a day filled with great art and of course the great produc...