Cristina Fontanelli: "Be Italian Tu”
Tuesday September 20. Feinstein's/54 Below - 254 West 54th St. Cellar, Manhattan, NY. Tickets & Info: 646- 476-3551 or click here. Showtime: 7:00pm (Doors open at 5:00pm for dinner). Back by popular demand, award-winning Italian singer/PBS-TV host for Andrea Bocelli, Il Volo, and Michael Buble, Cristina Fontanelli carries the Italian “torch” back t...
American Celebrations for the Centenary of the Birth of LEONARDO SCIASCIA
When: Tuesday September, 20 at 6pm - Where: Rizzoli Bookstore 1133 Broadway, NYC Book launch of the most comprehensive monograph in English by Joseph Farrell: Leonardo Sciascia. The Man and the Writer, with an introduction by Giuseppe Tornatore. Florence, Italy, Leo S. Olschki, 2022 (Series «Sciascia Scrittore Europeo», 5)
Musica Sotto le Stelle with Francesca Cavaliere and Antonio Guarna
Musica Sotto le Stelle. The final one of the season! Antonio Guarna & Francesca Cavaliere perform Italian-American favorites! Register here for Musica dinner at Casa Belvedere, 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY. Tuesday, Sept. 13 • 6:30 to 9:30 pm; doors open at 6 pm. $125 members, $135 non-members. Four-course dinner includes wine, Flagship Brew...
After Dinner Opera Company Presents SACCO AND VANZETTI Opera By Blitzstein And Lehrman
After Dinner Opera Company presents the New York and Orchestral staged premiere of Sacco and Vanzetti, begun by Marc Blitzstein, completed & conducted by Leonard Lehrma, and directed by Benjamin Spierman. Playing Saturday, Sept 10, 2022 at 7 pm, and Sunday Sept 11, 2022 at 3 pm at Lehman College Studio Theatre, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, The...
Opera & Broadway of Hamptons : A Southampton Salute to Summer
Sunday, September 4, 2022. 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT. The Basilica Parish of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary - 168 Hill Street - Southampton, NY 11968. This annual concert will continue the tradition of highlighting famous arias/duets from Opera and Broadway showstoppers, plus famous Italian such as “O Sole Mio,” Spanish and ethnic favorites, takin...
An offer you can’t refuse: Free ‘Godfather’ 50th anniversary tours in Little Italy
Fans of “The Godfather” already know that the award-winning movie is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Voted among the best Hollywood films of all time, the popular flick sports one of the best casts to ever hit a screen and a story line set in Little Italy. To celebrate, Little Italy is holding a “birthday party,” this coming weekend, Sa...
Italians one-two in first Italy/USA Friendship race
The Italy/USA Friendship Competition kicked off at Yonkers Raceway tonight with Italy’s Daniele Orsini winning with Hobbs (Credit Winner) in 1:57.3. And Italy’s Maurisio Biasuzzi finished second giving the visiting Italians a solid point-lead in the three race competition. In that $20,000 contest USA’s Bob Krivelin zipped to the lead with Crews Hil...
Yankees get 'boost of energy' with deal for Benintendi
It was around this time last year that pinging sound effects and glowing screens filled a charter flight from Tampa to Miami, gossip filtering throughout the cabin that the Yankees were acquiring Anthony Rizzo from the Cubs. The move provided a welcome spark, prompting celebration in the aisles. Rizzo and his teammates were in a pin-drop silent vis...
‘Hardest working’ 7-year-old golfer from Staten Island heads to world championship
When AJ Galli was just 2 years old, his dad handed him a baseball bat. But instead of swinging to hit home runs, AJ was using it as a golf club. “So then he got me some golf clubs and I kept hitting the balls,” said the now 7-year-old from Bulls Head. From there, it was history and AJ has been playing golf ever since. AJ went viral in early 2020 wh...
Big Apple Film Festival 2022 - Italian Andrea Careri Wins
The Roman screenwriter and writer (La Mia New York, Un Giorno senza Kobe, Ultra edizioni) won the prestigious Big Apple Film Festival, which had more than 30,000 participants from all over the U.S. and Canada in 2022. After winning with his original screenplay, Forget New York, he signed with KMC, Hollywood Talent Agency that will represent Careri...
Vanessa Racci, The Jazzy Italian
Tuesday, August 9 • 6:30 to 9:30 pm; doors open at 6 pm. Casa Belvedere, The Italian Cultural Foundation | 79 Howard Ave., Staten Island, NY 10301. Come and savor fine dining 'al fresco' style while Vanessa Racci serenades you with her unique brand of Italian Jazz. She will perform music from her first album Italiana Fresca, which reinvents Italian...
Here’s a unique summer camp experience -- bocce ball at Msgr. Farrell for a week
The age-old game of bocce has been a staple in Italy for as far back as anyone can remember. It was common to see Italians playing on courts in quaint towns of their native land as they tested their mettle against the “pallina” — or the bocce ball. Fast forward to today’s “bocce boom” and young adults are playing Italy’s hottest sport on our shores...