Operating Chef/Partner for a New Italian-American Restaurant
Operating Chef/Partner for a new "Old-School" Italian-American restaurant in Union Square. The restaurant opens mid-August so the position starts immediately. This individual must exude pride in culinary excellence and demonstrate creativity and breadth in Italian cuisine. The chef must be capable of sound and profitable management techniq...
The Robert D. Cess Concorso d'Eleganza IX: Celebration of Italian Automotive Excellence
In recognition of Robert Cess, Marine Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Stony Brook University, whose interest in Italian automobiles, especially the Alfa Romeo, served as the inspiration and impetus for having this show initially and as a continuing annual campus event. The Concorso d'Eleganza is a display of art forms on wheels...
Ferragosto 2014
The Belmont section of the Bronx will host their annual Ferragosto festival that draws thousands of visitors from the tri-state area and beyond to the intersection of all-things-Italian at world-famous Arthur Avenue and East 187th Street on Sunday, September 7, from noon until 6pm. This ancient Roman festival dates back to 18 B.C. when the gatherin...
Floating plastic garbage 'state' to make entrance at UN
The artist behind the Garbage Patch State - a country without borders made of plastic detritus that floats in the oceans - is debuting with an installation in the lobby of the United Nations (UN) headquarters on September 29. Designer, architect and artist Maria Cristina Finucci is making her artistic and environmental statement coincide w...
Round table "Marconi and his intuitions" - November 20, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Born in Bologna, Italy in 1874, died in Rome in 1937, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi did the groundbreaking work necessary for all future radio technology. Through his experiments in wireless telegraphy, Marconi developed the first effective system of radio communication. In 1899, he founded the Marconi Telegraph C...
Gioachino Rossini’s Barbiere Di Siviglia at Tilles Center - Friday, April 17, 2015 at 6:45pm
Gioachino Rossini's comedic opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) will be performed by New York City's Dicapo Opera Theatre (Michael Capasso, General Director) in Italian with English supertitles and with a full orchestra. The Barber of Seville was the first opera to be sung in Italian in New York City in 1825. The event begins a...
GEZA incontra Marc Thorpe, un nuovo ponte tra Italia e America a Soho
di Daniela Tanzj e Andrea Bentivegna In un periodo in cui il Bel paese sta faticosamente cercando di tirarsi fuori dal pantano di una crisi non più solo economica ma anche morale, fa ben sperare vedere che proprio dal design, antico vanto del nostro paese, arrivino incoraggianti segni di rinascita visto che proprio in questo ambito si vann...
Italian American Museum says evictions aren't hypocrisy, just business
by Ben Fisher New York's rapid redevelopment is bound to cause fights over evictions, rents and gentrification. But for sheer unfortunate irony, it's hard to top the ongoing saga of the Italian American Museum in Little Italy. In the last week, the museum has evicted two tenants of the Lower East Side enclave, both the very embodiment...
A Look at the 2015 Festa Della Madonna Dell'Arco in Ridgewood, Queens
Sunday, April 12th, dozens of pilgrims and fujenti (devotees of the Madonna of the Arch) gathered at St. Matthias Church in Ridgewwod, Queens for the Third Annual Festa Della Madonna Dell'Arco. Mass was celebrated in Italian with Father Vincent Miceli, followed by a short procession around the parish to the nearby Peter Cardella Senior Citizen Cent...
‘A Queen For A Day’ Starring Vincent Pastore Opens At St. Clement’s Theater
Set in an abandoned warehouse in New Jersey, Michael Ricigliano Jr.'s new play, Queen for a Day, is a story about organized crime, family, loyalty, and love. The play follows mafia member Giovanni "Nino" Cinquimani (David Proval) as he agrees to meet with prosecutor Patricia Cole (Portia) for a "queen for the day" or proffer agreement under the gui...
Dancing of the Giglio & The Feast of Saint Anthony
Bronx Little Italy. Arthue Avenue & East 187th St, The Bronx 10458The Feast of Saint Anthony starts on Wednesday, June 10th and goes thru Sunday, June 14th. The Dancing of the Giglio is Saturday, June 13 from 4-6pm and the Procession is Sunday, June 14th at 5pm. The feast will be full of games, rides, raffles, amusements and of course food...
Bittersweet Move
By Giovanni di Napoli Last Monday morning (July 27th) I joined members of the Craco Society and Saint Rocco Society of Potenza at St. Joseph's Church in Chinatown for the big move to Most Precious Blood Church in Manhattan's historic Little Italy. Sadly, after nearly 90 years, St. Joseph's will be shutting its doors as part of the latest w...