Italian Luxury Marble Design Co. Kreoo Debuts New Product Designs at ICFF 2015
Kreoo, luxury marble furniture brand to debut new designs at ICFF 2015. Luxury marble-furnishings brand Kreoo (USA) -- parent company, Decormarmi (ITALY) will debut two brand new marble furniture designs at the 2015 ICFF. The new designs are a compliment to Kreoo's lauded Pavè Collection which has been featured in exclusive design eve...
Celebrating Faith, Family and Culture: An Interview With Domenic Varuzza
By Giovanni di Napoli Today we are honored to interview Mr. Domenic Varuzza. I first met Dom years ago during the lifting of the giglio at the Feast of San Paolino di Nola in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I was immediately impressed by the young man's character and his passion for his cultural traditions. Recognizing his leadership skills, the...
Congratulations to York College's Dean Donna Chirico
by Anthony J. Tamburri Cari Amici, We are delighted to announce that Donna Chirico, professor at York College CUNY and Chair of the inter-college Italian American Faculty and Staff Advisory Council, has been appointed Dean of for the School of Arts and Sciences at York College, CUNY. As Provost Panayiotis Meleties stated in his a...
Viva Italy at Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
On September 12, 2015 Enzo Boscarino, an Italian-American musician entertained the audience of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, historical site located in Rosebank at 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island, with a visual concert around Italy called "Viva Italy". Mr. Enzo Boscarino, a native Italian, was born in Sortino in province of Siracusa. He graduate...
Italian American Writers Association Reading Series
October 10 (Saturday) 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Maria Mazziotti Gillan has authored more than 20 poetry collections, is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ and editor of the Paterson Literary Review and recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Lite...
Una Storia Americana: Two Italian Illustrators Entered the Collective Imaginary of New Yorkers
Once upon a time The America of the Modern Age, the "everything's possible kingdom" where prosperity and fictitious collide, conceptual and urban grids coexist, and individualism, celebrities, and myths evolve. And, then there was its "shadow side" with irony and contraction, madness and melancholy–suspended atmospheres, alienating suburbs...
Columbian Lawyers Association honors Frank Seddio with Rapallo-Scalia Award
There was plenty of Italian-American pride at the Waldorf Astoria on Friday as Mayor Bill de Blasio was in the house to help the Columbian Lawyers Association, First Judicial Department recognize Hon. Frank Seddio with the Charles A. Rapallo and Justice Antonin Scalia Award during its 51st annual luncheon. Not only was the Italian-American...
Italian Eatery, Car Shop Vacating 10th Ave. Building After Sale, Reps Say
A longtime Italian restaurant and a decades-old custom car shop are moving from their 10th Avenue building after being told its new owner plans to demolish it, reps for the two businesses said. Pepe Giallo at 253 10th Ave., at the corner of West 25th Street, plans to leave by end of the year, restaurant owner Gaspare Villa said. The 1...
Italian-themed dinner-concert to benefit artist colony
The sounds and tastes of Italy will fill the The Horned Dorset Inn as the next featured dinner concert gets underway on Sunday. "An Evening of Italian Song" will feature arias and selections performed by maestro Charles Schneider at the piano, with lyric tenor Jonathan Howell as vocalist. The event will begin at 4 p.m. with cocktails...
Williamsburg’s Giglio Feast takes starring role in new mob movie
It is ready for its close-up! The Giglio festival will dance its way onto the silver screen in the new mob film "The Brooklyn Banker," opening Aug. 5. The flick, which follows a bank official from Williamsburg with ties to a local organized crime family, features scenes set during the 113-year-old Italian-American festival, and to get the right lo...
New York Loves Italy
Parallelamente al ciclo di incontri "Meet the New Italians of New York", a Park Avenue 690 nasce un nuovo progetto promosso dal Consolato Generale d'Italia: New York Loves Italy. Il progetto si articola in un ciclo di incontri – a cadenza tendenzialmente bimestrale, ospitati a Park Avenue 690 dal Consolato Generale d'Italia – dove affermati espone...
La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic
On Friday, October 28 at 2:30PM the Consulate General of Italy in New York (690 Park Avenue) will host a press conference for La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic. The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, His Excellency Armando Varricchio, and the Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall, Mr. Clive Gillins...