On a recent evening, Giuseppe Gibboni, a rising violin star from Italy, played a rare 1734 Antonio Stradivari violin for a sold-out crowd on the stage of the Italian Academy's theater, to mark the launch of an important bicentenary--the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Italian opera in the United States. The Italian Academy’s theater was fully p...
READ MOREAssemblyman Angelo Morinello was elected president of the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators for a two-year term, marking a significant achievement in his commitment to celebrating and preserving Italian heritage. The New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators is a bipartisan organization dedicated to promoting...
READ MORESenator Andrew Lanza & The New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators are now accepting applications for scholarships to be awarded at the Annual Italian-American Day in Albany. There are academic and athletic scholarships in the amount of $3,000 each. Scholarships are available to eligible residents of the 24th Senate District who a...
READ MOREDominick’s Italian-American Deli celebrated its 30th anniversary in New Hyde Park this February, marking three decades of serving some of Long Island’s most beloved chicken fingers and classic deli dishes. “I started those chicken fingers about 28 years ago,” said Dominick Grosso, the deli’s founder. “People come in every day from all over Long Isl...
READ MOREThe Italian American Women’s Center (IAWC) hosted its annual International Women’s Day celebration, “Festa Della Donna,” on Sunday at Umberto’s of New Hyde Park. The event honored the contributions of women in the arts, particularly from the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods to the present. It featured a luncheon, an art exhibition, and speec...
READ MOREThere are so many sandwiches listed on the menu boards all over Sorriso Italian Salumeria that it would take several blissful, if high cholesterol-shortened lifetimes to try them all. But we’d be willing to give it a shot. At this cash-only deli—an Astoria institution since 1976—you can count on the structural integrity of the sandwiches, with eve...
READ MOREThe first United States retrospective dedicated to the titular artist, Magazzino Italian Art’s Maria Lai: A Journey to America is exceptional. Born in 1919 in Ulassai, Italy, and passing at the age of ninety-three in the nearby Nuoro commune of Cardedu, Lai bore witness to decades of art history and its myriad constituent avant-garde movements. Des...
READ MORELike a good marinade, Casa Stellina has had time to let feedback from the Farmingdale community seep in. Michael Catania, general manager of the restaurant, located at 300 Main Street, said the response has been "great" from Dalers, as well as visitors. Casa Stellina Ristorante's menu features Naples-style dry pasta; house-made pasta; entrees wi...
READ MORESacco & Vanzetti Are Dead! July 17-July 27th (minus July 22nd) - The American Theatre of Actors — Sargent Theatre — 314 W54th St New York, NY. Joey DeFilippis, Matt Ferrara, Michael Gardiner, Francesco Baldino, Ilana Schimmel, Danielle MacMath, Dan Yaiullo, Ryan O’Toole. TICKET PRICE: $35.00. RUNNING TIME: 120 min (15-minute intermission). TICKET P...
READ MOREDear friends, I am posting this to inform you about an event promoted by We the Italians together with Fondazione Migrantes (a pastoral organization of the Italian Episcopal Conference which since 2006, has been publishing the annual Rapporto Italiani nel Mondo) and ACLI (the most important social promotion association in Italy, which also has an o...
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