The Italian American Museum Cordially invites you to attend the opening reception for "Who Do You Think I Am?/Chi Pensi Che Io Sono?" Solo Exhibition by Antonio Petracca Friday, March 27, 2015 - 6:30 P.M. Refreshments will be served R.S.V.P. 212.965.9000 info@ItalianAmericanMuseum.org   Artist's Statement:...

by Michael Traversa   Ask any actor, they will always say that theatre is their first love. There is nothing like doing a play in front of a live audience. Seeing Annabella Sciorra on stage Off-Broaway in A Month in the Country alongside Anthony Edwards and Peter Dinklage, reminded us how much we've missed this great actress, proud to call h...

La Dott.ssa Silvia Formenti, membro del Board of Trustees di ISSNAF e presidente dell'Advisory Board di Medicina e Biologia, ha ricevuto il 2 giugno 2015, durante le celebrazioni delle Festa della Repubblica, l'onorificenza di Grande Ufficiale dalla Console Generale d'Italia a NY Natalia Quintavalle per il suo illustre contributo nel campo della ra...

The Clute Park Community Center in Watkins Glen will be transformed into an Italian oasis as one of the many new attractions for the 36th annual Schuyler County Italian American Festival from Friday through Sunday at Clute Park.   Marionette shows, new vendors, new musical performers and the "Salami Shack" are other additions. "Our goal is...

by Jon Caramanica The other day, I was waiting for a text to let me know to leave the house to meet a person for a thing, but the person was late, or being made late, and so for about 20 minutes I was in a sort of limbo, a purgatory state between ready-to-go and out-the-door.   Confronted with a similar scenario, some people would respond t...

Mercoledì prossimo, 14 novembre, il funzionario itinerante del Consolato generale a New York sarà a Staten Island per la raccolta delle impronte digitali per il rilascio dei nuovi passaporti biometrici. L'incontro avrà luogo presso The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, (79 Howard Avenue). Si tratta, ricordano dal consolato, "di un'in...

L'ENIT di New York ha ospitato la presentazione dell'offerta SINA Fine Italian Hotels ad operatori turistici, agenti di viaggio e giornalisti, rappresentanti delle più conosciute e stimate organizzazioni dell'industria turistica Americana come Virtuoso, American Express Traveler, MAPTA, Valerie Wilson Travel, Liberty Travel e dei Media che, anche n...

St. A's gets a Big C.The thriving Brooklyn church known as St. Athanasius turns a century old this year.When other churches in New York are struggling, padlocking schools and closing down, St. Athanasius of Bensonhurst will celebrate its 100th feast of its patron saint this Thursday with a 7 p.m. Mass.Come see why this parish flourishes in a time w...

by Tom Greaney   Alidoro, on Sullivan Street in New York, is a place famed for rude service as much as it is for Italian sandwiches. On my first visit I walked in, it was unusually empty; I stepped up to the counter, stood there for 5 minutes until the grumpy sandwich man casually walked over to me and muttered "No bread."   Other tim...

Knowing the existence of a few books about the literary production of the Italians in America - from 1776 to World War II - written by a Neapolitan professor named Francesco Durante, we asked him to be interviewed, not knowing that thanks to him we would discover a world. An exceptional world, information very interesting and known by only a few, w...