Rinasce il Genoa Club New York: “Il fascino del Grifone negli USA”
Il 22 maggio 1991, presso il ristorante “Il Barolo” di SoHo, si festeggiò la fondazione del Genoa Club New York. Quattro giorni dopo il Grifo battè 2-0 la Juventus nell’ultima di campionato conquistando l’accesso in Coppa Uefa: il battesimo portò una discreta fortuna ai ragazzi di Bagnoli. Il club ha subíto le ingiurie del tempo ma un volenteroso d...
The New Italian American Museum (Thurs, 1/11/18)
The Italian American Museum cordially invites you to attend the opening reception for "The New Italian American Museum: Architectural Renderings and Model for the Forthcoming Newly Designed Museum". Presented by Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, Founder and President. Thursday, January 11, 2018. 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Italian American Museum 155 Mulberry Street (Co...
Providence man heading to NY for one-man play
A Providence comedian, actor, and writer is headed to New York City for a 10-day run of his one-man-play, "The Last Sicilian." Nick Albanese grew up the son of Sicilian immigrants on Charles Street in Providence, with the whole family living on the second floor above his father's bakery, and rolls those funny but true-life experiences into his show...
Food Truck ‘Wandering Dago’ Wins at Free-Speech Case
A New York food truck whose name includes an old-fashioned slur for Italians won a First Amendment challenge Wednesday against state regulators. Wandering Dago is the food truck business in question, and its menu is similarly themed, hawking sandwiches with names like Goombah and Polack. A popular wedding caterer, the company sued in Albany after N...
Panzerotti Bites coming to Brooklyn
How about an Italian snack that’s packed like a French crepe with either sweet or savory goodies before it’s fried like a Spanish empanada? It’s panzerotti we’re talking about, of course, and Panzerotti Bites is coming to Brooklyn at 235 Smith St. to serve up the half-moon shaped pockets of doughy goodness. Vittoria Lattanzio and Pasquale De Ruvo,...
IAWA 2nd Saturday Reading Series
January 13, 2018 (Saturday) 5:45 - 7:30 pm Sponsored by The Italian American Writers Association. Cornelia St. Cafe - 29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan. Admission: $10 (includes one drink); open to the public. Contact: Maria Lisella 718-777-1178 [email protected] Joseph Salvatore, author of the story collection To Assume A Pleasing Shape, is a frequ...
Joe Campanale is reinventing high-low dining all over again
The hottest reservation in New York City right now isn’t some old-school grand dame or Michelin-starred Manhattan boite. It’s Fausto, a laid-back Italian restaurant on a wide, commercial avenue in Brooklyn, tucked between two quiet, residential neighborhoods. Fausto opened on December 9. It was a curious move for owner and beverage director Joe Cam...
Pizza mitzvah! Marine Park pizzeria goes kosher
A Marine Park pizzeria with a long tradition in the Brooklyn pizza scene has decided to adopt a tradition that’s even older — it’s going kosher. Vinny Fontana’s father Francesco opened up the first The Original Pizza location in Canarsie back in 1964, and the family still has pizzerias in Canarsie, in Bay Ridge, and in Flatlands, as well as the Ave...
Former Buffalo Common Council member Michael LoCurto has died
Former Buffalo Common Council member Michael LoCurto has died. LoCurto’s mother, Joan Feroleto LoCurto announced his death in a Facebook post early Friday morning. “I lost a part of my heart tonight. My precious Michael LoCurto has passed,” Feroleto LoCurto stated. LoCurto was serving as the deputy commissioner in the Erie County Department of Env...
The Lonely Scrivener: GAY TALESE
Gay Talese tells me it feels strange not to begin a Monday morning in “the Bunker.” By this he means his Manhattan workspace. At eighty-five, the author has lost none of his formidable discipline. His 2016 book, The Voyeur’s Motel, has been picked up by Hollywood, and his current projects include a new look at Frank Sinatra, written with Pete Hamil...
The Museum of Modern Art Gallery Sessions: Giorgio de Chirico
January 2, 2018 (Tuesday) 11:30 am; January 5, 2018 (Friday) 1:30 pm. The Museum of Modern Art - 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan (please enter at 18 West 54 Street). Gallery Sessions: Giorgio de Chirico. Contact: 212-708-9400 https://www.moma.org/ Join a discussion on Giorgio de Chirico and the enigmatic paintings of the scuola metafisica ("metaphysic...
This Queens bakery is making doughnut cannoli
Holy Donnoli! Just when you thought cannoli couldn't get any better, a Queens bakery is giving the classic confection the hybrid dessert treatment. At Astoria's Vaccaro's Bakery, chef Vinny takes the Italian classic and turns it up to 11 by switching out the flaky fried pasty shell for a fluffy donut exterior. But the the self-professed Cake King o...