Columbus Citizens Foundation Announces 2023 Columbus Day Parade Line-Up and Performers for World's Largest Celebration of Italian American Culture
On Monday, October 9, the 79th Annual Columbus Day Parade will be held in New York City. The Parade celebrates Italian American heritage, culture and achievements and is the largest celebration of Italian heritage in the world. Grand Marshal Beth Paretta will lead the Parade up Fifth Avenue from 47th to 72nd Streets from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM. 2023 H...
The history of legendary Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso is now part of the permanent collection of the Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere
Caruso (1873-1921) sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. He was also one of the first major singing talents to be commercially recorded. Many theatrical and personal items once owned by Caruso were collected by Commendatore Aldo Ma...
Italian Caucus: “We’re Calling It Columbus Day.”
On October 12, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially recognized October 12th as Columbus Day. It was enshrined as a national holiday by Congress and President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Uniform Holiday Act of 1968. To our understanding, Congress has not changed Columbus Day to “Italian Heritage Day” or “Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” yet the Ci...
Lidia Bastianich Opens Her Home to Celebrate 25 Years on Public Television: ‘I Never Felt Pressure to Conform’
For Lidia Bastianich, taking care of people is second nature. While on set of her PEOPLE photo shoot (on newsstands Friday), a sanitation truck passes by the chef’s sprawling home in Queens, and the driver honks the horn to say hello. “They’re nice to me because I feed them,” says Bastianich, 76, who makes to-go packages for the workers to eat on t...
Details of 64th Annual Columbus Day Parade and Festival Announced
Binghamton's 64th Annual Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival is on Monday, October 9th. Mayor Jared Kraham was joined by members of Binghamton's Italian-American community, Italian Exchange students and members of Union-Endicott High School's Italian Club. The festival kicks off at 9 a.m. with a flag raising outside City Hall, followed by the...
Columbus Citizens Foundation announces Grand Marshal and Honorees for the 2023 Columbus Day Parade
Columbus Citizens Foundation is proud to announce Beth Paretta as Grand Marshal of the largest parade celebrating Italian American heritage in the United States. Ms. Paretta, the founder of Paretta Autosport, has broken barriers in the field of auto racing and has made a special commitment to STEM Education for Girls. She is the first female dire...
Morris Park’s Columbus Day parade to honor longtime Bronxite Louise Delucia as deputy grand marshal
The upcoming annual Columbus Day parade in the Morris Park section of the Bronx is set to honor a local advocate who has given back to her community through hard work, dedication and even some humor. This Sunday’s parade, along Morris Park Avenue, will highlight longtime Bronxite Louise Delucia as the parade’s deputy grand marshal. DeLucia will ser...
With sausage ‘n’ peppers sizzling, Columbus Day festival celebrates for four days on Staten Island
With cannoli and steak-eating contests at the Italian Festival at The Mount, “abbondanza” food is part of the draw to Mount Loretto’s fall fundraiser. This year, the Columbus Day weekend revelry runs four days straight, from Oct. 6 through Oct. 9. “In the crisp autumn air, this is a tremendous event for borough residents, a great crossroads for mee...
Review: Pappardella Serves Authentic Italian on the Upper West Side
If you like hearty, home-cooked meals that are consistently good (who doesn't?), then Pappardella is your jam. Located on the Upper West Side close to the Museum of Natural History, this Italian hotspot has been going strong for 40 years, serving its local clientele and tourists, too. They are obviously doing a few things right as this space is usu...
Utica Flag-Raising Ceremony for Italian American Heritage Month
There was a flag-raising ceremony in the City of Utica in honor of Italian American Heritage Month. Every October, Italian American Heritage Month is celebrated. According to the Census's website, “Although Italy as a unified nation did not exist until 1861, the Italian peninsula has sent millions of its people to the shores of North America. These...
The Guggenheim Is Helping the Blind Experience Art—a Luxury Italian Winery Is Part of the Effort
During the height of the Covid pandemic, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum not only expanded its reach to visitors with low vision through a dial-in program, it created a sensory guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure that walks listeners down the sidewalk to the Fifth Avenue building in New York, through the threshold and up the swirlin...
The Grand Italian Vision. The Farnesina collection
“The Grand Italian Vision. The Farnesina Collection” is an enthralling journey through the history of Italian art from the 1900s to the present day, by means of 71 works selected from the extraordinary art collection at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic. The only public institution in the world t...