Cultural Italian American Organization to host Christopher Columbus Testimonial Dinner
The Cultural Italian American Organization announces it will honor His Excellency Bishop Salvatore Matano, the ninth bishop of the Rochester Diocese, at its second annual Christopher Columbus Testimonial Dinner. The bishop is also the first Italian-American bishop in the history of the Rochester Diocese. The testimonial dinner is set...
Lavazza – Official Coffee Of The US Open
Lavazza announced details of a new global collaboration featuring tennis legend, Andre Agassi. The partnership positions Agassi as Lavazza's spokesperson for the world of tennis, and officially kicks off this years US Open with a special event and promotion for spectators, along with teasers taking place around New York City. The 120-year-old authe...
From the Heart - A Treasury of Italian Songs
September 20 (Tuesday) 7:00 pm. From the Heart - A Treasury of Italian Songs. A one-hour video presentation by Bill Ronayne, featuring a collection of some of the most beautiful and beloved songs including "O Sole Mio," "Torna a Surriento," "Mattinata," "Core'ngrato" and "Santa Lucia" from movie and television performances and featuring c...
Entrepreneurship Opens The Door To Heritage and a Dual Life
By Beth Connolly Is New York the most Italian city in the United States? For over one hundred years her harbors and airports have accepted (though not always welcomed, at first) millions of Italian immigrants who settled in enclaves across Brooklyn, the Bronx, and all of the boroughs, establishing restaurants, bakeries, and grocery stores that suc...
Italian eatery serving up fried dough opens on McDougal St.
By Jennifer Gould Fried dough is a favorite of many cultures, from America's sweet donut to the versatile churro that dominates simple fast food options from Spain and Portugal to the South of France. The Italian version is a panzerotto. The fried dough specialty has a new haven at 124 McDougal St., with the opening of Mr. Panzerotto.&nbs...
Italian-Americans outraged over Mayor's plans for Columbus Circle art project
Hey, show a little respect for Christopher Columbus! Italian-American activists are outraged over a new plan to place an art installation around the statue of the explorer that stands in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The planned installation, by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi, is supposed to give New Yorkers a new perspective on Chris by enclosing hi...
Two Tenors & a Lady
The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, located on Staten Island, N.Y., offers a wide variety of educational and cultural events. This month, its calendar includes a Christmas Concert and Reception—a Staten Island Sandy Relief Benefit featuring "Two Tenors & a Lady" with VETRO tenors Christopher Macchio, Elio Scaccio and soprano Mari...
Altamura Center For The Arts
Inter-Cities Performing Arts is a New Jersey/New York-based, philanthropic arts company founded for the purpose of improving ethnic, social, professional, and cultural relations throughout the world. It grew out of the Altamura School for the Fine and Performing Arts, which served many students with financial needs in and near in Union City, NJ. It...
IAM presents the traditions of Saint Joseph
The Italian American Museum will present, "The Traditions of St. Joseph" on Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 PM, a talk and pastry-making demonstration that will examine the centuries-old celebrations that honor the patron saint of Italy. IAM president Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa will offer a historical perspective of St. Joseph's Day, and the evening'...
Massimo Vignelli, a Visionary Designer Who Untangled the Subway, Dies at 83
Massimo Vignelli, an acclaimed graphic designer who gave shape to his spare, Modernist vision in book covers and shopping bags, furniture and corporate logos, even a church and a New York City subway map that enchanted aesthetes and baffled straphangers, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. His death, after a long illness,...
Tumulto futurista a New York
di Gloria Schiavi Sono stata inondata di parole, suggestioni, frasi troncate e destrutturate, in quella stanza senza luci o macchinazioni sceniche che riproducessero la dinamicità e il movimento suggeriti dal titolo dell'evento Gran serata futurista. Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, regista e attore unico, l'uomo monocromatico in bianco e ner...
A Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco presidente di GE Europa il premio "Corporate Social Resopnsability" della FPA
di Riccardo Chioni L'eccellenza italiana sul podio della Foreign Policy Association, in occasione del World Leadership Forum Dinner al Pierre Hotel, che ha visto protagonista Ferdinando "Nani" Beccalli-Falco, presidente e Ceo di GE Europe e Ceo di GE Germany. All'ingegnere chimico laureatosi al Politecnico di Torino, Cavaliere del Lavoro,...