Screening: Bertolucci's ME AND YOU. A Conversation with NICCOLÒ AMMANITI
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 - November 6, 2015 - 06:30 PMPart of the New Literature from Europe Festival: Me and You [Io e te] (2012, 103 min.). In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles - Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - Based on the novel by Niccolò Ammaniti. Followed by a convers...
A New York lo street food all'italiana
di Claudio Moschin Si dice che nessuna città al mondo possa competere con New York quanto a street food, il cibo venduto per strada, grazie a centinaia di piccoli e grandi furgoni, posizionati ogni giorno nei diversi quartieri cittadini, davanti a uffici, banche, studi di avvocati, ospedali, scuole. Dunque, se è vero che la metropoli ameri...
Iconic Italian Restaurant and Celebrity Hangout Da Silvano Has Closed for Good
By Chris Crowley After 41 years in the West Village, frequent Lindsay Lohan paparazzi destination and Italian trailblazer Da Silvano has served its last osso buco. Owner Silvano Marchetto tells the New York Post that the restaurant is "closed forever" following last night's service and it sounds as if he's simply tired of the grind. Operating cost...
Scatto dell'export di moda verso gli Usa (+21%). A gonfie vele l'abbigliamento maschile
Soprabiti fluo, giacche leggere, sahariane nei toni pastello, blazer stampati: dalle vetrine scenografiche dei department store fanno capolino le collezioni primaverili di alcune tra le più note griffe italiane. Per strada, tra i grattacieli e gli inconfondibili taxi gialli, c'è invece chi si ripara dal freddo sfoggiando cappotti, piumini e mantell...
La Italy-America Chamber of Commerce premia la baronessa Zerilli-Marimò
La cornice è quella della nave da crociera "Poesia" della società Msc attraccata al Pier 88 sull'Hudson. L'evento è lo "Spring Luncheon" della Italy-America Chamber of Commerce svoltosi ieri, che ha visto protagonista la baronessa Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò che ha ricevuto l'annuale "Business & Cultural Award". Alla cerimonia di premiazione che...
New York’s “Other Little Italies”
Most of the immigrants went to the cities. New York, Buffalo, Rochester and other cities in the State of New York received large contingents. It must be remembered that immigrants almost always came to join others who had preceded them – a husband, or a father, or an uncle or a friend. In western New York most of the first immigrants from...
Festival will feature singer Micheal Castaldo ITALIAN INVASION
By Guy D'Astolfo The Greater Youngstown Italian Festival had been trying to book singer Micheal Castaldo for several years, but the timing was never right — until this year. The Italian-born tenor will sing Saturday and Sunday inside the Roma Tent, which holds 1,000 people, and his performance will be different both nights. The festival,...
Il ministro Cecile Kyenge al GEI di New York
Il presidente del Gei (Gruppo Esponenti Italiani), Lucio Caputo ha dato il benvenuto al ristorante Le Cirque al ministro Cecile Kyenge. Cecile Kyenge ha parlato delle problematiche legate all'immigrazione sottolineando che l'Italia non è un paese razzista, ma manca una informazione corretta con ancora troppi sterotipi legati al fenomeno che devono...
An Italian American Tells His True Story, ‘Surviving the Warzone’
In the 1960s, East New York, Brooklyn made the Wild West look like Disney World. East New York was in such a lawless state. Street gangs dominated Brooklyn like the New Lots Boys, Fulton and Rockaway, the Crescents, Liberty Park Boys, Fountain and Pitkin, and Hemlock and Sutter. The black and Puerto Rican gangs took cool names, like the Chaplains,...
Torrisi Boys to Open Parm Location Near Barclays Center
by Greg Morabito The unstoppable Italian-American culinary force of nature that is the Major Food Group is getting ready to take Flatbush Avenue by storm. A Times article from earlier this year about the group mentioned plans for a location of Parm across the street from the Barclays Center, and now, the Daily News reports that Mario Carbo...
Staten Island's Sundog makes good on sad story of Antonio Meucci; last show Sunday
Few stories sound like less fun than that of the luckless inventor Antonio Meucci (1808-1889), the Rosebank resident who was unrecognized for inventing a pre-Alexander Graham Bell telephone and spent much of his life in grinding poverty. And yet, "Meucci's Message," a new play by James Armstrong, injects warmth and humor into the material....
Onondaga Historical Association seeking photos, artifacts for Italian heritage exhibit
By Rick Moriarty The Onondaga Historical Association is looking for old photos and artifacts for an upcoming exhibit on the Italian heritage of Syracuse. The exhibit will be displayed in the association's second-floor gallery at 321 Montgomery St. from Sept. 12 through March 16. Dennis Connors, the association's curator of history, said i...