Thursday, March 5th, 6:30PM Italian American Museum - 155 Mulberry Street (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) - New York, NY 10013 Acclaimed author, Anthony Vigorito presents a retrospective of his works including excerpts from Pier 48 South Brooklyn, 17 West and Seeing in 17 at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, March 5th...

If you don’t have the time—or the money—for an Italian holiday, consider a visit to Eataly in New York City where the Italian tastes and scents are the real thing. An upscale 50,000-square-foot Italian food hall, Eataly has become a mecca for foodies from around the world. “We’re a food temple,” declares international celebrity chef Mario Batali, a...

By Christian Araos The Order Sons of Italy will host its annual Italian Feast starting Wednesday Aug. 26 at Michael J. Tully Park. The festival will open at 6 p.m. on the Aug. 26 and will run through Sunday Aug. 30. It will be open from 6-11 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 3-11 p.m. on Saturday and 3-10 p.m. on Sunday. There will be fire...

The Members Dining Room and Jan D'Amore Wines invite you to enjoy this special chef's tasting menu that will explore the rich culinary heritage of Southern Italy—including Lazio, Calabria, and Puglia—and feature exceptional wine pairings with each course.   Jan D'Amore Wines specializes in bringing undiscovered Italian wines to the United St...

Titles by Italian authors Elena Ferrante and the late Primo Levi have both made it into the top 100 books of the year compiled by the New York Times, it emerged on Monday.   The books in question - The Story of the Lost Child by the elusive Ferrante (a pseudonym), which is the fourth and final volume in her quartet of Neapolitan novels, and...

The house my husband and I were lucky enough to buy in Carroll Gardens came with an Our Lady of Mt. Carmel; a large statue of Mary holding baby Jesus enclosed in a heavenly blue dome. It had been cemented to the ground because the first statue had been stolen during Carroll Gardens' more crime ridden days (God help you if you're going around steali...

WTI Magazine #79    2016 May 13Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Here in Italy, soccer is more popular than all other sports combined. It is becoming stronger and stronger in America, too. Many strong Italians play for the American league today, such as Andrea Pirlo for the New York City league and Sebastian Giovinco for the Toronto l...

In a cemetery on the outskirts of New York City, a Jewish city council member, Italian-American dignitaries and history buffs honored a contemporary of Mozart. The gathering of such a diverse group of people and the twist of the story that ended in this old New York City cemetery on October 20, 1987 mirrored the various turns in the life of the hon...

New York's Luhring Augustine is to present "The Minus Objects 1965-1966″, and exhibition of early works by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. The exhibition will be on display at Luhring Augustine's Bushwick space until 11 May 2014.   The Minus Objects – first exhibited in 1966, in the artist's studio in Turin – comprise a group of disp...

By Filippo Brunamonti La linea scelta dall'ENIT Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo di New York per rendere omaggio alla femminilità, italiana e non solo - in occasione dell'evento Why Women Love Italy (4 marzo scorso) - è una pedina indispensabile all'eterno duetto donna-uomo, campo contro-campo dalle imperdonabili banalità di giudizio. Difficile parla...