For the millions of U.S. fans who fell in love with the astonishing talent of IL VOLO following their show stopping PBS Special "Il Volo Takes Flight," or as special guests of Barbra Streisand's fall 2012 tour, the boys will return to North America for a series of 17 concerts. The Live Nation produced tour kicks off August 25th at the Orpheum Theat...

Are you the next Fellini? Are you a video-maker or director in love with Italy and the Italian-American culture? Do you want to showcase your work at the heart of NY's Little Italy?   We are preparing our August-December 2014 Calendar, and we are looking for independent and opinionated artists, who want to showcase their work! We need videos...

St. Luke's Church, 16-34 Clintonville Street, Whitestone, NY 11357 - Tel. (718) 746-8102 We welcome the Holy Image of Our Lady of Romitello from Sicily to our parish beginning August 12th and returning August 22nd. A novena in her honor will be held in Italian and other special events are planned.   We are honored to welcome His E...

By Rob Abruzzese Brooklyn's Italian Restaurant Week kicked off on Tuesday night with a sneak peek at Il Centro, Bensonhurst's soon-to-be-open Italian-American Community Center. Elected officials and local residents gathered to get a glimpse of the new building while chowing down on some of Brooklyn's delectable Italian food.   "Let me welco...

A lecture by Manuele Gragnolati (University of Oxford) In ENGLISH. Focussing on the connection between textuality, subjectivity and politics, this paper explores analogies and differences in the late works by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante.   The aesthetics of both authors resists linearity and allows for the articulation of paradoxic...

PLEASE JOIN US, Bring Family and Friends: FOURTH ANNUAL "AN ITALIAN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK". Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa in Co-Sponsorship With Arthur Piccolo cordially invite you to "An Italian American Christmas in New York"   Friday, December 12, 12PM - 6PM. Please join us anytime during the day to celebrate the...

Please join us for an evening celebrating the traditions and foods of St. Joseph's Day, an annual feast thought to have originated in the 10th century in Sicily. Renowned Chef Vittorio of Trattoria Romana will be our host as he demonstrates and explains time-honored St. Joseph's Day dishes.   We'll enjoy his delicious cuisine while NOIAW mem...

Gelso means mulberry in Italian, hence the name of this newcomer to a high-profile corner of Little Italy, the intersection of Grand and Mulberry. The Italian menu by Cassidy Hallman, who worked at Bouley and Momofuku, hews to the modern Italian canon, and the chef says he depends on the best ingredients, even milling his own flour, for his pa...

by Alyssa Bird   New Yorkers are getting a taste of the French Riviera thanks to the recent debut of Mamo. The Provençal-influenced Italian restaurant, opened by Mike "Mamo" Mammoliti in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, is an offshoot of his family's popular Antibes, France, eatery, Mamo le Michelangelo, which has been a staple of the Côte d'A...

Pizza batte hamburger dieci a uno. Su Instagram il piatto simbolo dell'italianità nel mondo è anche il cibo più fotografato. Con più di 17 milioni di scatti, la pizza conquista il podio della top ten dei cibi più presenti sul social da 300 milioni di utenti.   La ricerca, promossa dallo chef Alessio Mecozzi, ha analizzato i trend culinari de...