Columbia University was sued by a group of families for allegedly failing to use their donations to promote Italian culture as the benefactors intended. Several Italian-American families in 1927 donated $400,000 (worth about $5 million today) to the Manhattan-based university to erect La Casa Italiana, the "Italian House," on school land, accordin...
READ MOREBy Adele Bossard Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York City, is organizing In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, the first Italian theater festival to take place annually in all five New York City boroughs and beyond. The inaugural festival will be June 10 to 20, 2013. All events are free. The fest...
READ MOREBy Laura Caparrotti È lei che, in soli due minuti, ci dà consigli validissimi su gite fuori New York o su viaggi da sogno, dagli schermi del canale NY1. Si chiama Valarie D'Elia, ma è probabilmente più conosciuta grazie al nome della sua rubrica come Travel with Val. Ha lavorato per The Travel Channel, Outdoor Life Network, CNN's Travel G...
READ MOREThe lights in the auditorium dimmed and the noise level dropped to zero as Cristina Fontanelli entered the stage. With just a few sentences of introduction, she started to sing, bright and powerful, casting a feeling of serenity and awe over the whole Tribeca Performing Arts Center. "It's very peaceful. It's like you're in an open vessel,"...
READ MOREÈ stato scelto tra 6 chef di fama internazionale presenti a Identità Golose Milano 2014 il testimonial del Consorzio Grana Padano a Identità New York 2014. And the winner is... Denny Imbroisi, sous-chef di Alian Ducasse al Jules Verne di Parigi. Sarà il 26enne chef italiano alla corte di Re Ducasse, infatti, a portare la bandiera del made...
READ MOREThis concert is dedicated to Italian and American composers of contemporary music that brought electric guitar to its extremes. From the soft and groovy minimalism to the rock, psychedelic, noise and electronic music, electric guitar is such a versatile instrument that can be played and used as a tool in different musical contexts. This so...
READ MORESono 2.829 e la Lombardia si colloca al primo posto con 609. Sono le startup italiane, un universo nuovo che in pochi anni ha preso piede anche nella penisola. Fino a pochi anni fa nessuno immaginava il futuro dell'economia italiana in mani che non fossero quelle della tradizionale impresa, oggi invece i numeri del Registro Imprese di Infocamere ap...
READ MORECharlie's calls itself "A New York Italian Joint," which isn't quite right. It's a good deal more affable, cheerful and neighborly than the dark and crammed madhouse restaurants I grew up going to in New York City. By contrast, Charlie's Italian Joint in Redondo Beach is bright and spacious, with a groovy bar with a lot of big screens tune...
READ MORESi avvicina ormai il tradizionale ed atteso appuntamento con la Columbus Day Parade, che, giunta alla sua 68.ma edizione, si terrà il prossimo lunedì 8 ottobre a New York. La parata, che sarà trasmessa in diretta televisiva dalla Abc, avrà inizio alle 11.30 e, partendo dalla 47th Street, si snoderà lungo la Fifth Avenue per giungere infine alle 15...
READ MOREDear Friends,New York Italians in collaboration with Fordham University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Italian Honor Society C.I.A.O. is very happy to invite you to:"Tech and the City". Based on over 50 interviews with entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, university professors, members of the Bloomberg adm...
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