American vs Italy competition kicks off
The American vs Italy Friendship Competition kicked off at Monticello Raceway on the warm and sunny afternoon of August 17 with the amateur harness racing drivers competing in both a pace and a trot on the betting card. The pacing race went to USA's Bobby Krivelin who reined Five Star Stud to a 2:00.2 victory while Giancarlo Moretti scored a 2:01.1...
Italian company to take over Chautauqua County cheese plant, saving 80 jobs
80 Chautauqua County jobs will be saved after an Italian company agreed to purchase the Empire Specialty Cheese plant in Ashville. The plant, which makes mozzarella and ricotta cheese, was previously "in a difficult financial situation" due to constraints and needed improvements. Nuova Castelli Group will invest several million dollar...
Al Dente: Food in Italy between the Local and the Global
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute | Queens College, CUNY - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036. 212-642-2094 | [email protected] | www.qc.edu/calandra Thursday, November 10, 2016, 6pm. Al Dente: Food in Italy between the Local and the Global (Fabio Parasecoli, The New School) Food products and p...
Baci e Vendetta Brings Old-World Elegance to the East Village
Here's a stunning bar and trattoria with Old World bronze-trimmed elegance that outclasses its East Village location. It's the work of the Church Group, which creates themed bars, several in the same neighborhood. Nearby, the group's Kingston Hall is Jamaican, Shoolbred's is as Scottish as its hot toddies, and Ninth Ward, which is closed temporaril...
Verplanck Italian Feast Celebrates 90th Year
VERPLANCK, N.Y. - Verplanck's traditional Italian Feast, a 90-year-old summer staple, will take over Highland Avenue and 8th Street through Sunday.Starting today, the festival opens each night at 6 p.m. and includes rides, games, live music and Italian-American food."It's unique; it's one of the oldest-running feasts in New York. People come back e...
A New Italian Spot? You’ve Been There Before
For Italian-Americans, it was the moment when the meatballs got big.We speak of the 1950s, when at least some of the thousands of immigrants who had poured into New York City from impoverished regions of Italy finally began to see the postwar fruits of their sacrifice. Prosperity was within reach, and they expected their meal at the neighborhood re...
Ciro e Fabio Casella, i guru della pizzeria San Matteo nell’Upper East Side
di Piero Armenti La Pizzeria San Matteo, nel cuore dell'Upper East Side, rappresenta un motivo d'orgoglio per la città di Salerno. Lontano dalle sponde del Mediterraneo, i suoi guru culinari, i fratelli fondatori Ciro e Fabio Casella, sono riusciti in un'impresa importante: ricreare qualcosa della piccola città capofila della costiera amal...
Sights and sounds of Italy
The Schuyler County Italian-American Festival returns for its 34th consecutive year this weekend at Clute Park in Watkins Glen. Carnival rides and games, music, marching bands, skate park stunts, a huge variety of food, a pasta-eating contest and a motorcycle show all are part of this year's event. New this year: entertainment on Friday by...
Little Italy fest returning to Schenectady
Food including a pig roast from six restaurants and caterers, family fun, cultural activities and continuous live music highlight the eighth annual Schenectady Little Italy StreetFest from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, in Schenectady's Little Italy (North Jay Street). Singer/actor/winemaker Gianni Russo of "The Godfather" fame will mak...
Organizzata dal Puglia Center of America la premiazione di pugliesi eccellenti alla Columbus Citizens Foundation
By Riccardo Chioni Presso la sede della Columbus Citizens Foundation nella Upper East Side si è svolta giovedì la cerimonia organizzata da Puglia Center of America per la premiazione delle eccellenze professionali pugliesi in America, alla presenza dell'on. Fucsia Nissoli eletta al parlamento nel Centro e Nord America.Ha fatto gli onori di casa il...
LOOKING SOUTH: Three Centuries of Italian Paintings - to be presented by scholar-dealers Otto Naumann and Robert Simon
A major exhibition of Italian paintings will open at the 22 East 80th Street gallery of Otto Naumann Ltd. on January 6 and remain on view until February 15. "LOOKING SOUTH: Three Centuries of Italian Paintings" will feature more than forty Renaissance and Baroque masterworks dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, including seve...
Kitty Genovese murder still fascinates 50 years later
Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers' seeming callousness toward their neighbors. The case "caught the spirit of the time," said Thomas Reppetto, a police historian. "It seemed t...