It began its life as a computer chip warehouse facility off of Route 9 in Cold Spring, New York, a small town with a Metro-North train station and a few restaurants on its main street. Magazzino means “warehouse” in Italian, playing off this industrial past of the site, but the Magazzino Italian Art museum has been committed to refined elegance sin...
READ MOREThe Beacon City School District is changing the name of Columbus Day on all its calendars and documents. The Beacon School Board was recently approached by a resident about concerns over Columbus Day. That one resident's concerns led the board to create a special six-person committee to figure out how the district should recognize the second Monday...
READ MOREHuddled together on a snakeskin couch in a New York hotel, their euphoria was infectious. Måneskin just played a pop-up lunchtime show in Times Square, and now they learned their Madison Square Garden show scheduled for later in the week was a sellout. Pleasantly surprised, frontman Damiano David called the news “very special.” “It’s one of the mos...
READ MOREThe New York City cultural and culinary landmark Delmonico's reopened Monday following a three-year closure from the COVID pandemic. City officials say Delmonico's was the first fine dining restaurant in the city when it opened in 1837 on Beaver Street. It has since survived the Prohibition Era, September 11th and Hurricane Sandy. Over the years, i...
READ MOREMichael Mann’s racing drama “Ferrari” is set to close the 61st annual New York Film Festival. The sports biopic, starring Adam Driver as automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari, will make its North American premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Oct. 13. Michael Mann (“Heat,” “The Last of the Mohicans”) directed “Ferrari,” which is adapted from the 1991 biography “...
READ MORERossana Russo’s rich history in Little Italy dates back to when her parents, both Italian natives, settled on Grand Street and met on Mott St. at a long since gone Five and Dime, and became restaurant owners in the neighborhood in 1984. When they passed away–her mother Gaetana “Lunella” in 2019 and her father Antonio in 2020–she was faced with the...
READ MOREChristopher Columbus received some powerful Old World backing in Manhattan on Tuesday as New York City pols weigh whether to yank statues of him and other now-controversial historial figures. Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni pointedly visited the borough’s famed Columbus Circle to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony honoring Columbus — jus...
READ MORENew York’s Ellis Island Museum pays tribute to the millions of emigrants who sailed into New York harbor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in search of a better life. The largest group of soon-to-be expats came from Italy; their exodus created one the greatest diasporas in human history. A recently opened museum in Genoa, MEI (the National...
READ MOREA Lindenhurst man who rode his skateboard across the country earlier this year is continuing to make gnarly moves. Chad Caruso, who skated from Venice Beach, CA to Virginia Beach, VA, received an official Guinness World Record on Tuesday, for the "Fastest crossing of America (USA) on a skateboard (male)." From March 24 to May 19, Caruso traveled...
READ MOREToday, the Center for Italian Modern Art announces that it is the recipient of a $60,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Spring 2023 grant program recognizes arts organizations and museums for their visual arts programming, exhibitions, and research initiatives that provide critical support to artists. CIMA joins a ri...
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