Sights and sounds of Italy
The Schuyler County Italian-American Festival returns for its 34th consecutive year this weekend at Clute Park in Watkins Glen. Carnival rides and games, music, marching bands, skate park stunts, a huge variety of food, a pasta-eating contest and a motorcycle show all are part of this year's event. New this year: entertainment on Friday by...
Little Italy fest returning to Schenectady
Food including a pig roast from six restaurants and caterers, family fun, cultural activities and continuous live music highlight the eighth annual Schenectady Little Italy StreetFest from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, in Schenectady's Little Italy (North Jay Street). Singer/actor/winemaker Gianni Russo of "The Godfather" fame will mak...
Organizzata dal Puglia Center of America la premiazione di pugliesi eccellenti alla Columbus Citizens Foundation
By Riccardo Chioni Presso la sede della Columbus Citizens Foundation nella Upper East Side si è svolta giovedì la cerimonia organizzata da Puglia Center of America per la premiazione delle eccellenze professionali pugliesi in America, alla presenza dell'on. Fucsia Nissoli eletta al parlamento nel Centro e Nord America.Ha fatto gli onori di casa il...
LOOKING SOUTH: Three Centuries of Italian Paintings - to be presented by scholar-dealers Otto Naumann and Robert Simon
A major exhibition of Italian paintings will open at the 22 East 80th Street gallery of Otto Naumann Ltd. on January 6 and remain on view until February 15. "LOOKING SOUTH: Three Centuries of Italian Paintings" will feature more than forty Renaissance and Baroque masterworks dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, including seve...
Kitty Genovese murder still fascinates 50 years later
Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers' seeming callousness toward their neighbors. The case "caught the spirit of the time," said Thomas Reppetto, a police historian. "It seemed t...
The Health Benefits of Eating Italian Style Presented by Fiorella DiCarlo
You are cordially invited to attend a special presentation by Fiorella DiCarlo RD, CDN titled, The Health Benefits of Eating Italian Style at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, May 29. Fiorella is a Registered Dietitian in private practice in New York City and born in Naples, Italy. She is also founder of a food blog called Fiorella...
Endicott church's Italian feast is a 'community event'
by Sara Tracey When Mary Spinelli started attending the local St. Anthony of Padua Italian Feast Days 80 years ago, she remembers food being a humble addition to the festivities. Baskets of goodies and wine were carted to the Buffalo Street shrine of the patron saint of Spinelli's parish. Lamb spiedies were roasted over coals. Th...
An Evening: Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora - Thursday, November 14, 2014, at 6:00PM
For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. The lives of these Italian women are woven into the artifacts of memory and imagination: embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlew...
Marco Paoli Photography
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2015; Hours: 6PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065 Organized by: ICI In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia. The works take as raw material th...
Gala Italia. Gli Usa terra di conquista
Il Gala Italia compie 30 anni con una rassegna al Pierre Hotel che racconta lo straordinario successo del vino italiano che negli ultimi tre decenni ha visto passare le proprie esportazioni da 44 milioni di dollari ad oltre un miliardo e trecento milioni. Organizzato dall'Italian Wine & Food Institute diretto da Lucio Caputo sotto l'alto patro...
Comedian Rocco Deserto Talks Italian Parents, Growing Up In Bensonhurst & Being Fat
The last time we wrote about Rocco Deserto, his wedding party had just been photobombed by a giant plume of smoke. Most of the time, Deserto’s life is not that eventful. The Xaverian High School alum and proud six-time college dropout spends his the bulk of days at a boring office job in Manhattan, and evenings with...
Babbalucci Bringing Wood-Fired Italian Fare and Aperitivo to Harlem
By Sara Ventiera Andrew LoPresto grew up in the restaurant industry; both his father and grandfather were bread bakers most of their lives. Following in their footsteps, LoPresto made a career out of cooking himself, working at respected eateries such as Le Madri, Ovest, and Blue Duck Tavern. Later this month, LoPresto is finally...