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Poultry pioneer Teressa Bellissimo inspired a delicious all-American bar-food phenomenon. The late restaurateur cooked the first batch of Buffalo wings, the most iconic of all barroom bites, by happenstance one winter night in 1964 at Anchor Bar in Buffalo. Her invention soon upended an entire multi-billion-dollar sector of American agriculture.  T...

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Magazzino Italian Art, 2700 US-9, Cold Spring, NY 10516. Seventy-Two Names – Italian Garden, a site-specific work by Marco Bagnoli, opened this summer, May 20, 2022, in the park surrounding the Medici Villa Ambrogiana in Montelupo Fiorentino. Magazzino will be featuring the film, documenting the creation and history of Bagnoli’s exhibition, on our...

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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...

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The late Larry (Lawrence) Ambrosino, a passionate educator who touched the lives of thousands of borough children in at-risk communities and mentored many of them through adulthood, will be honored at a street renaming ceremony next month. The longtime Staten Island educator died at the age of 72 at home in Annadale on Aug. 29, 2020, following a tw...

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Neapolitan neighborhood staple Pasquale Jones has officially expanded its Little Italy footprint with the debut of Bar Pasquale, a vibrant new wine bar and eatery paying homage to Sicilian culinary and winemaking traditions. And since it comes from Delicious Hospitality Group, the team behind buzzy hot spots including Charlie Bird and Legacy Record...

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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...

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The new episode of Italian Innovators is a fascinating conversation on Italian jewelry with Alberto Milani (entrepreneur & creator of the jewelry & lifestyle luxury brand Alberto Milani "a love affair with Italy", president of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of New York, and co-founder of Piazza Italia Market in New York City). We explored th...

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After 2 years absence, we are back! In the great tradition of the last 31 years, opera and Broadway favorites will once again come to the North Fork of Long Island through the annual favorite concert/winetasting event “Cristina Fontanelli and Her Fabulous Friends” taking place on Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at the Duck Walk Vineyard North,...

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When: 13 ago, 15:00 - Where: Staten Island, 420 Tompkins Ave., Staten Island, NY 10305, USA Meet Julio Vincent Gambuto, director and writer of the critically acclaimed Team Marco!  "Giulio” grew up in a large Italian family on New York’s Staten Island, where aunts, uncles, and cousins gathered often around Mom's seafoam-green formica kitchen table...

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Officials with the Manhattan District Attorney's office formally turned over almost $14 million worth of seized artwork and historical artifacts back to Italian authorities on Wednesday as part of a yearlong effort to repatriate such goods that have been circulating on the black market. The 142 pieces were seized by authorities from art galleries a...

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