Let's Talk Wine: Discovering Italian wine
By JoAnn Actis-Grande The Pope's recent visit here was a historic event for America, but it also turns our eyes toward Italy. Italy's wines are among the world's finest. They are wines that exude class, diversity and style. Their red wines are perfect companions for autumn dining. With its wine heritage dating back more than...
NOIAW Remembers Baronessa Mariucca Zerilli-Marimò, our Distinguished Board Member
The National Organization of Italian American Women has lost a dear friend and a great lady, the Baronessa Zerilli-Marimò, who passed away on October 18, 2015. Mariuccia, as I called her, was a past NOIAW honoree and a Distinguished Member of our Board. She was the patron whose kindness, generosity and vision developed the Casa Italiana at NYU, whi...
A new day, a new restaurant for the Desiderio family
By Mary Kunz Family tradition is continuing for the Desiderios, a name well known to the Buffalo dining crowd. On Oct. 28, Bobby and Jay Desiderio opened Bobby J's Italian American Grille. The restaurant is located at 204 Como Park Blvd. in Cheektowaga, in a building that used to house the popular restaurant Adam's. Jay Desiderio s...
ILICA, l'anno XI si festeggia con la musica
La serata Culturale di ILICA si è svolta sabato, 7 novembre, nella cornice del rinnovato Queens Museum ($70 milioni di maquillage). Il concerto del Maestro Simeone Tartaglione e di Alessandra Cuffaro, moglie e virtuosa del violino (prima donna a suonare in una serata i 24 Capricci di Paganini) ha incantato per 45 minuti oltre 200 invitati. ...
Patti LuPone: Italian of the Week
Patti Ann LuPone was born on April 21, 1949, in Northport, New York. Her family came to the United States from L'Aquila and Sicily. As a child, she knew she wanted to act. She was in the first graduating class at the Julliard's Drama School in 1972. Patti was also one of the founding members of John Houseman's The Company, and toured with the organ...
LVMH Invests in Italian Jewelry Brand Repossi
by Chantal Fernandez The LVMH Group announced Monday that it will take a minority stake in luxury jewelry brand Repossi. The Italian company is led by Artistic and Creative Director Gaia Repossi, who took the lead at the company her great grandfather founded in 2007, at only 21 years old. Under the direction of her father, Alberto Repossi...
Italian gardens: Villa Gregoriana
WTI Magazine #74 2015 December 11Author : Italian Botanical Heritage Translation by: Villa Gregoriana is named after Pope Gregory XVI, who inaugurated it on October 7, 1835. The park, located in scenic location at the foot of the Roman acropolis of Tivoli, is part of the Italian natural, historical and archaeological heritage, an env...
Joseph Sciame works hard to help others, appreciates his many blessings
by Sr. Camille D'Arienzo Joseph Sciame. Title: Vice President for Community Relations at St. John's University. Lives in: New Hyde Park, N.Y., and employed in Queens, N.Y., at the university, which is located in the Diocese of Brooklyn. Sister Camille: Mr. Sciame, you recently received Knighthood in the Order of Pope St. Sylvest...
Press Italian street food brings a little bit of Italy to metro Phoenix
By Arren Kimbel-Sannit Press Italian Street Food owner T.J. Coffey may not be Italian, but he says the food his truck serves is Italy's traditional street fare — with a personal, in his case, American twist. He was inspired to start the truck by his love for Italian cuisine, and after cutting his teeth at restaurants including the now-clo...
Historic Alta House in Little Italy springs to full life as a Montessori school
By Steven Litt A $1.6 million renovation has brought the historic but underused Alta House in Little Italy back to luminous vitality as the new home ofCleveland Montessori School, previously housed at nearby Holy Rosary Church. On a gray Wednesday morning, the school's second day in its new home, parents pulled up at the East 125t...
Book Presentation: THE GUARDIAN OF MERCY
FEBRUARY 08, 2016. 06:00 PM. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011. The Guardian of Mercy. How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today (2016, Arcade Publishing) by Terence Ward. Introduced by Stefano Albertini (NYU) and Pellegrino D'Acierno...
Here at last: North End’s story on film
by James Pasto In July 2013, I wrote about the North End Historical Society's documentary. I had thought that the film would be premiered in early 2014. I was optimistic. Nevertheless, good things come to those who wait, and the film was finally premiered on Jan. 20, 2016 at Suffolk University's Modern Theatre on Washington Street – and wi...