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The first Rome Through Richmond Town festival last October served as the replacement for the annual Columbus Day Parade, which had recently seen a drop in attendance. "I think it was an absolutely phenomenal time," Oddo said of last year's event. "It was so much broader in its scope, so much richer and fuller. The people who were there absolut...

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By Tony Farina   It is just about time for the annual Buffalo Italian Heritage Festival which will hold court on Hertel Ave. between Colvin and Delaware next week beginning Thursday (July 16) and running through Sunday (July 19), featuring all the great Italian food you can eat in addition to top local entertainment and the Miss Italian Fest...

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By Leslie Albrecht   There won't be a statue of an old man with an enormous moustache holding a "sad-looking pizza" at the new Italian restaurant opening on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 11th Street, the co-owners told DNAinfo New York.   The team behind Pastificio Flora say they plan to destroy that outdated stereotype at their eat...

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This past June, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz swore in Astoria resident and Queens native Maria Lisella as the new Queens Poet Laureate. Maria will be joining us at Central Library on Sunday, October 11 at 2:00 p.m. for our Open Mic for Poets. Maria Lisella is the sixth poet to serve as the borough's Poet Laureate.   Born in S...

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Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò24 West 12th StreetNew York, NY 10011 OCTOBER 21, 2015 - 06:00 PM With Rapsodia Italiana, pianist Alessandra Garosi returns to Casa Italiana to perform and present music for solo piano written by various female composers active in Italy during the 20th century. The styles of these composers range from post-Romanticism...

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By Noah Remnick   Just after 1 a.m. on July 28, Leonora Russo woke to a commotion at her home in Howard Beach, Queens. First came the yelps of her daughter's Chihuahua, then the crash of her front door slamming shut. By the time she reached her window, Ms. Russo saw only a black Dodge Dakota receding into the night.   At the wheel of...

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Nearly every Italian town has a Presepe but after the events of 9/11, New York received its very own. Named "Il Presepe della Pace" (The Nativity of Peace), craftsmen at the famed Ferrigno workshop in Naples created this 18th century style Presepe that represents everyday Neapolitan life symbolically surrounding the Holy Family. Naples has been th...

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Giovedì 9 maggio 20136.00 in EDT Italian Culture Institute of New York Seguso, the renowned Murano Company producing glass since 1397, along with the Italian Cultural Institute host a very special evening on Thursday, May 9 from 6 pm – 8pm with Mr. Giampaolo Seguso, Murano glass artist, poet and philosopher.

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by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon   For members of the Laperuta family, Westchester County's Italian Heritage Celebration at the Kensico Dam Plaza has become a family tradition — one they've honored for some seven years now. So it was no surprise that Dom and Karen Laperuta, both 51, of Yonkers were there with their two children at this year's event on S...

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by Serena Solomon   The Italian American Museum has put its home up for sale — but the cultural institution isn't going anywhere. The three buildings at 185-189 Grand St., which contain the museum as well as residential units and storefronts, recently hit the market for $13 million, with the condition that the museum remain on site. &n...

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