ISSNAF award for the humanities
In the framework of "2013: Year of Italian Culture in the US", ISSNAF - Italian Scientistsand Scholars in North America Foundation will award the 2013 ISSNAF Award for theHumanities. The purpose of the Board of Trustees is to acknowledge the research ofyoung Italian scholars in North America, whose commitment to their discipline of studyis innovati...
Parata di stelle al Russo's
Si aprono le porte di Russo's on the Bay ormai dal 2009, anno della fondazione di una delle più attive associazioni culturali italiane nella Grande Mela e precisamente nel cuore del Queens: l'Associazione Culturale italiana di New York (ACINY). Molti i partecipanti desiderosi di vivere una giornata all'insegna della tradizione italiana e pronti ad...
New York’s Eataly Will Celebrate its Third Birthday with a Food & Wine Festival
by Vivian Mac There's nothing like celebrating a birthday with a food festival. Eataly, an Italian gourmet marketplace in New York's Flatiron District, is organizing their first food and wine festival for their upcoming third birthday, which will be held on on September 6th from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. During the twelve hours of the ev...
Luca Santaniello concert: 'Naples in my heart'
Luca Santaniello, New York based drummer since 2001, is presenting a new project on the fusion between Neapolitan traditional music and American Jazz. The most famous songs from the Neapolitan folk tradition such as Maruzzella, A rumba re' Scugnizz, and Scalinatella longa longa, are given a jazz flavor through Luca's deep knowledge of the Be Bop ja...
Calcio: il tifo italiano trova la sua isola felice a New York
"United colors of soccer". Questo il nome dell'evento che ha visto protagonisti i fan club newyorchesi di Sampdoria, Genoa, Roma, Fiorentina, Milan, Juventus e il neonato fan club "Pepito Rossi", dedicato al giocatore della Fiorentina nato e cresciuto in New Jersey. Il tifo organizzato italiano ha voluto testimoniare come si possano vivere...
Fabrizio Ferri: negli Usa l’imprenditore è aiutato, in Italia è un nemico
"Ho ricevuto un premio dalla città di New York per avere contribuito a riqualificare l'area di Meatpacking grazie all'apertura del Superstudio. A Milano ho fatto lo stesso ma non ho avuto alcuna gratificazione". Vita densa di esperienze diverse quella di Fabrizio Ferri, classe 1952 e un'attività professionale focalizzata sulla fotografia m...
An afternoon with Vera Colitti
An afternoon with Vera Colitti - sunday, september 14, 2014 - 2:00—4:00 P.M.Meet the Woman... Hear the Stories... See the Clothes! Hear how a young girl from Milan came to Millburn, started her boutique,Colitti Collection, and brought European couture and the "Ready to Wear" collections, including Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Misson...
Local documentary brings in the donations at WMHT
History was made when WMHT-TV (PBS) premiered the local documentary, "The Neighborhood That Disappeared" on December 12. Viewers contributed more dollars during a single fundraising broadcast than ever before. Nearly $40,000 was raised to support public television when WMHT aired the new documentary that tells the story of the neighborhood...
Expert gelato makes cones to Luna Park from Italy!
Luna Park – the amusement district on Coney Island – now has a gelato maker from Italy making fresh artisanal gelato daily for Coney's Cones. He name is Daniele Del Sasso from Vincenza (in the Northeast of Italy) and his gelato's creative flavors and dense, rich texture is drawing crowds. Three year ago, Alberto Zamperla (owner of Zamperla...
Meet the New Italians of New York
10 Dicembre 2015, ore 18.30. Meet the New Italians of New York - KICK OFF EVENT. Meet the New Italians of New York è un progetto promosso dal Consolato Generale d'Italia a New York con l'obiettivo di coinvolgere la nuova generazione di migranti italiani e favorirne la partecipazione alle attività delle Istituzioni del...
Art & Artists of the Renaissance: Raphael
February 26. 6:30 pm — 8:00 pm. Westchester Italian Cultural Center. 24 Depot Square - Tuckahoe, New York Raphael, the greatest painter of the Renaissance, took all that was great from the traditions of the Ancient Greco Roman art world and transformed it into works of unparalleled beauty, refinement and grand aesthetic...
My favorite car from the New York Auto Show is an underestimated Italian convertible
They're calling it the "Fiata" — a slight at its Mazda Miata underpinnings. But it might be so much more. The little Fiat 124 Spider and the sportier Abarth versionwere hidden away in a corner of the New York Auto Show past a replica of the car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and a selection from Toyota's soon-to-be-defunct Scion brand. But...