It’s Official! Weekend Walks Coming To 18th Avenue This Summer
by Rachel Silberstein Save the dates! Weekend Walks are coming to Bensonhurst's 18th Avenue in July. Every summer, the Department of Transportation [DOT] partners with community groups to present multi-block neighborhood events, by temporarily closing commercial streets to vehicles and opening them to walking and other activities. &n...
Hidden Treasures of Italy Through the Photographic Lens at Casa Belvedere
Casa Belvedere Presents: "Hidden Treasures of Italy Through the Photographic Lens". A Presentation by Anita Sanseverino. Tuesday, June 16th @ 7:00 PM Join award-winning photographer Anita Sanseverino for an insider's narrative and photographic journey of the hidden treasures of Campania, Puglia and Lazio. Through Anita's kno...
Festa Italiana: Food, heritage, socializing off to a rousing start
By Amanda Nichols A large crowd was already gathered at Festa Italiana, eating their share of rigatoni and cannoli, just an hour into the three-day event Thursday afternoon. Scott Weinaugh, 54, was under the beer tent awaiting the start of the opening ceremony when he spoke with The Era. He said he lives in Allegany, N.Y., but makes sure to v...
Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945
Date: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 - Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Hours: 6pm Venue: Italian Cultural Institute of New York In collaboration with: IIC-San Francisco Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945, an exhibition of photographs by Alfonso Carrara (1922-2012). Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-pho...
Italian eatery opens at Rochester Public Market
by Kerry Feltner A new restaurant has opened at the Rochester Public Market. Fiorella is a casual Italian eatery that focuses on sustainable cuisine, with Gino Ruggiero as its chef. He worked as the head chef at Restaurant 2Vine for more than a decade, has co-authored a cook book and won awards from Best Chefs America in both 2013 and...
Calandra Community Book Club Wants You!
Begun two years ago, the Calandra Institute's Community Book Club has read together and engaged in fun, funny, argumentative, dynamic, and critical conversation about a whole slew of the greatest Italian American books ever written. And we want you to join us as we continue exploring classic Italian American literature! Come to our next me...
New York - Robert Gallo receives Leonardo da Vinci Prize
The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee (IHCC) has conferred the 2015 Leonardo da Vinci Award on Robert Gallo, an Italo-American and an internationally renowned researcher in the field of immunology. The Director of the Institute of Human Virology and Professor of Medicine at the Maryland School of Medicine, Dr Gallo played a key role in determi...
Sagra del libro: The Italian American book festival in Little Italy
The Lt. Joseph Petrosino Lodge of Little Italy(OSIA) and IAWA - The Italian American Writers Associationare joining forces to host the "Sagra del Libro" (Italian-American Book Festival) that kicks off IAWA's year-long 25th Anniversary Celebrations. WHEN: Friday, February 26, 2016 from 6 to 10 pm. WHERE: Lodge Hall...
tredici North Opens in Nearby Purchase, with a Spin on Classic Italian Dishes in a Drop-Dead Gorgeous Modern Space
Executive chef Giuseppe Fanelli has found a new home to showcase his talents with fresh riffs on Italian favorites. This chef, who has been cooking in Manhattan for 20 years, a Sleepy Hollow resident, told us, "I would like to give back to the Westchester community I grew up in, and bring classic dishes to all – updated for the 20th centur...
Claudio Del Vecchio e Brooks Brothers: "Più Italia nella camicie che usava l'Avvocato"
Claudio Del Vecchio ripensa al suo arrivo negli Stati Uniti e ricorda sorridendo: "Immaginavo che sarei rimasto qui per non più di due anni, non vedevo l'ora di tornare in Italia, a casa. Invece...." Invece di anni ne sono passati 34. Spedito a New York dal padre Leonardo, patron di una Luxottica allora lontanissima dalle dimensioni odiern...
Inside Apizza Regionale: Dinosaur owner's new joint opens Thursday
by Don Cazentre The smell of the wood fire tells you this is a place with local restaurant legend John Stage's signature on it. When you get to the blackened and blistered Neapolitan-influenced pizzas and the long list of Italian-style Negroni cocktails on the bar menu, you know it's a little different. Apizza Regionale opens at 5 p.m. Th...
He helped make Patchogue what it is
The call came when Artie Fuccillo was seated at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts. Would he consider being St. Liberata's Italian American of the Year? It was an ironic moment because Fuccillo, with his friend Al Chiuchiolo, helped negotiate the purchase of the theatre when it needed help and put up the money, along with others...