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In a historic launch, Red Sauce Studio is putting the Italian back in Manhattan’s Little Italy by introducing a unique podcast studio that celebrates Italian-American culture. At the helm of this exciting venture is John M. Viola, a passionate advocate for preserving Italian-American heritage. John M. Viola is a renowned Italian-American entreprene...

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New York’s oldest person turned 112 last week, and she shared her secret to a long, fulfilling life. Louise Jean Signore, a 4-foot-5 Italian-American, was born in Harlem in 1912 and moved to the Bronx at age 12, where she still lives today. She worked for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for 39 years. The eldest of five siblings, she...

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Joe Germanotta is the owner of Joanne Trattoria, an Italian restaurant in New York City. He chatted about being a restaurant owner in the digital age, and the latest entertainment and lifestyle events. He is the husband of Cynthia Germanotta, and the father of Grammy award-winning global pop music star Lady Gaga, and Natali Germanotta. “We opened 1...

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Saturday, August 10, 2024. 11:00 am - 6:00 pm. North Canal Street, Canastota, New York, 13032. The Canastota Italian Ancestry Organization (CIAO) will be hosting an Italian American Festival on North Canal Street in the Village of Canastota on Saturday, August 10, 2024. The festival will kick off next to the historic Erie Canal at 11:00 am and will...

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Clear skies for majority of the day meant for a clear view of planes! Saturday was day one of the two-day 2024 A.P. Property Services Rochester Airshow at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport. The airshow, returning this year with an Italian twist that had annual attendees even more excited. “I love the airshow. I come her...

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A 2,000-pound bronzed statue of Christopher Columbus has been relocated to the Rockland Sons of Italy Lodge in Blauvelt, NY. The nearly 100-year-old statue, created in 1925, was previously vandalized and defaced during protests in Richmond, Virginia, in 2020. An Italian-American organization fundraised to restore the statue, which arrived at its ne...

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Lega Serie A USA has announced a community partnership with South Bronx United, a New York City nonprofit organization that seeks to use soccer as a tool for social change in the South Bronx. The partnership - launched at an event at South Bronx United’s facility before Saturday’s friendly between AC Milan and Manchester City at the neighboring Yan...

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On a recent Friday at Daphne’s, a new Italian restaurant in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, the red sauce was green, made from chartreuse-colored tomatoes and a splash of vodka. The lasagna came in the form of noodles fried into chips, broken over a dish of beef tartare topped with shoyu-cured egg yolk. There was a Milanese cutlet, but...

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You’re familiar with Charles Lindbergh, but probably not Giuseppe Mario Bellanca. The Italian aviation pioneer, designer, and engineer who ran a flying school in Mineola, NY, for a period of time was born in Sciacca, Italy, and left an indelible mark on aviation and Long Island history in the 1920s. He is most notable for building the plane that ma...

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Towards the end of the 19th century and the turn of the 20th, one New York immigrant community was terrorized by their own people. Italian immigrants arriving in America in search of a better life were treated as subhuman. On top of that, a secret society known as the Black Hand, which was a loose organization of Italian criminals, terrorized the n...

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