Quality Italian recently opened just around the corner from parent restaurant Quality Meats, and like its predecessor, it's also inspired by old-world butcher shops in its design. "I think the space is kind of really different than any other restaurant I've ever seen because they have these really cool pictures, but they're all backwards,"...
READ MOREBy Beatrice Bondi Bergamo si presenta a New York. Il 21 novembre la Provincia di Bergamo e l'agenzia di promozione turistica Turismo Bergamo, in collaborazione con l'ENIT di New York, hanno presentato al pubblico americano le bellezze e le opportunità turistiche che la provincia bergamasca offre: dallo storico centro cittadino alle montagne, dagli...
READ MOREby Carol Sugarman Joe's Pizza, the Greenwich Village institution owned and operated by Naples-born Joe Pozzuoli since 1975, has been visited by a host of celebrities over the years. But its latest claim to fame was its inclusion in the movie Spider-Man 2. Actor Tobey Maguire, aka Spider-Man, plays a Joe's delivery guy. Our tour gu...
READ MOREBy Laura Caparrotti Theater for the New City è uno di quei teatri che fanno parte dell'era leggendaria di New York, di quando la città era ancora un luogo pieno di artisti di tutti i tipi che ne facevano una fucina d'idee, di nuove visioni, di parole altre. Fondato nel 1971, il TNC, com'è conosciuto ai più, si trova su First Avenue fra la nona e l...
READ MORENEW YORK ITALIANS is HIRING!! Italian language children PLAYGROUP LEADER [part -time] Job description: The Playgroup Leader will be responsible for the day to day running of the playgroup sessions to ensure safe, stimulating play and to provide for the needs of the children. This will involve planning, preparing and delivering play- bas...
READ MOREArtist Francesco Arena (The Olnick/Spanu Program) in conversation with:Lorenzo Benedetti, director of De Appel Arts Center, AmsterdamVincenzo De Bellis, curator, founder of Peep Hole Milan, and director of MiartAra H. Merjian, Associate Professor of Italian Studies, NYU Francesco Arena was born in Torre Santa Susanna, Brindisi, in 1978, no...
READ MOREThe applause from a sold-out audience enjoying the family friendly comedy "How Alfo Learned to Love Women" last week (at the National Opera-America Center) should reassure all Italian-American dramatists that you don't need gangsters, molls, or mob bosses to draw a crowd. Like the character Guido Contini in "Nine" by Mario Fratti, New York...
READ MOREIn cooperation with Aspen Institute Italia, the Italian Embassy in US and The Council for the United States and Italy, Italian Business & investment Initiative's Summit will be held on February 10 at Bloomberg's headquarters in Manhattan. This summit's theme will be "Italy: we are open for business". As customary it will host CEOs, inv...
READ MOREBy Leslie Brody My late husband Elliot used to rhapsodize about childhood visits with his grandmother to Bronx's Arthur Avenue, where they would eat, shop and eat some more. We never had a chance to go there together before he died of cancer seven years ago. After getting married again this summer, I heard my new husband's cousin,...
READ MORELìolà is not your typical neighborhood Italian restaurant in Queens. Owner and Chef Angelo Alaimo is serious about providing sophisticated, thoughtful dishes, fine wines and exceptional customer service that rival the top Italian restaurants in the entire New York Metropolitan area. Dinner commences with a plate of cubed parmesan, green and bl...
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