“In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura” at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
A completely illustrated scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition, which is underwritten by Christie's. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. 124 Raymond Ave Box 703. Poughkeepsie, NY 12604. (845) 437-5632. Admission is free and open to the public. All galleries are wheelchair accessible. Francesco de Mura (1696-1782) could be termed the last g...
Josephine Milani, 100, Ossining
Josephine Milani, an Ossining resident, died Monday at the age of 100. Milani was born in Illinois and raised in New York City. She received a BA from Hunter College and an MA from Columbia University. Her main subject of study was foreign languages and was licensed to teach French, Spanish, Italian and English. She taught for 25 years in various h...
Italian restaurant Meta Osteria & Barra opens in Oceanside
Meta Osteria & Barra is bringing a new spin on Italian cuisine to Oceanside. Meta opens in the former site of Sole, with a colorful menu that seasons traditional Italian and Italian-American fare with contemporary accents. It’s under the same management as Sole, which arrived in 2000. Dennis Durdaller is the managing partner; Robert Carmosino is ch...
Carla Sozzani: I’ll Take Manhattan
Looking down from far above, the port seems like a toy town, with its tiny boats, old brick warehouses with signs reading “Seafood” and “Shellfish”, and – across the East River – the jagged outline of Brooklyn’s high-rise buildings. Many floors up in the Howard Hughes offices, there are models of Space Age structures and then a more familiar curved...
Cuoppo NYC opens in Merrick serving bite-size fried Italian food in paper cones
Cars may outnumber pedestrians on Merrick Road, but both can now stop for one of Naples’ most popular street foods. Louis Fontana and his wife, Lauren, opened Cuoppo NYC this week at one end of a Merrick strip mall, selling paper cones filled with bite-size, feather-light fried food. “I learned to cook from my family,” said chef Louis Fontana, whos...
The Hunger Saint at the American Italian Heritage Museum in Albany, NY
June Monthly meeting and Cultural Presentation: Thursday, June 13th at7:00pm. The business meeting begins at 7:00pm, followed by a presentation by Olivia Kate Cerrone, who has received various literacy honors including a “Distinguished Fellowship” from the National Endowments of the Arts. She currently resides in Boston, MA. Her topic “The Hunge...
Sofra Grill: How a former Waldorf chef makes a new Italian restaurant stand out
When the Waldorf Astoria restaurant closed in March, chefs like Dominick Di Napoli picked up other cooking gigs. Di Napoli, for instance, landed at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. In the meantime, he also opened a restaurant with a friend, fellow Staten Islander Jimmy Kelmendi. "Sofra is my baby," Di Napoli enthuses. "It's fun Italian...
Jack Calcagno – New York chiama Trieste
ELLIS ISLAND, SWING E IL SOGNO AMERICANO. Jack Calcagno – New York chiama Trieste. Uno spettacolo scritto e interpretato da Leo Zannier. Al pianoforte, il maestro Antonio “Tony” Kozina. Giovedì 25 maggio 2017, ore 7pm presso il Carmine Street Theater di New York. Ingresso libero Un viaggio spensierato, musicale, comico e struggente insieme a Jack...
Italian Center hosts 23rd annual Festa Italiana
Baked ziti, spaghetti and homemade cannolis will all be on the menu this weekend at the Italian Center’s 23rd annual Festa Italiana. Volunteers are preparing close to 1,000 portions of eggplant rollatini, chicken parmigiana and meatballs for the 15,000 guests anticipated to attend the event, which will run from Thursday to Sunday, according to the...
Pre-Father’s Day Celebration in NYC: “A Bronx Tale” and Serafina
Father’s Day is coming up, and Robert and I celebrated in advance by being invited to attend A Bronx Tale at the Longacre Theatre on West 48th Street in Manhattan. Although primarily set in a tough Italian neighborhood in the Bronx of the 1960’s, you could tell from the response by the apparently sold-out audience that the story struck a more unive...
City Bites: An Intimate Salon of Italian Art
The inaugural exhibit at the Alessandro BerniGallery held at Italian Green Design Center in Chelsea presents blue chip names alongside less familiar Italian artists in a sumptuous and intimate loft of fine crafted furniture. The overall effect is like stepping into a well appointed apartment of an aesthete’s salon. The exhibition was masterfully cu...
Be Italian: A New York il meglio delle eccellenze lombarde a tavola
Mille miliardi di dollari in cibo, di cui 493 nei ristoranti, un mercato di “food specialities” che vale 85,87 miliardi, con tassi di crescita a doppia cifra. Negli Stati Uniti il prodotto alimentare italiano di qualità gioca sempre più un ruolo da protagonista, facendo leva sulla grande considerazione che i consumatori americani mostrano per il ma...