Honoring Verdi on Seventy-Second street
The statue of Giuseppe Verdi, set high above a patch of daffodils, draws scant attention from people hurrying to the subway at Seventy-second Street and Broadway, or even from people lounging on the nearby benches of what used to be called Needle Park, back in the city's drug-infested era. Impressively spruced up now, Verdi Square, which, like many...
IDACO “ITALIAN DANCE CONNECTION” Second Annual NYC Festival May 24-28, 2016
ITALIAN DANCE CONNECTION, "IDACO nyc," is a platform for Italian artists visiting and living in New York, and for New York artists who want to take part in a dialogue with Italian culture, exploring and sharing their unique paths through movement, choreography and the visual arts. "IDACO nyc" seeks to encourage networking and artistic rese...
Festival to celebrate Italian culture in New Hyde Park
By Gabrielle Deonath The annual Italian Festival hosted by Cellini Lodge of the Order Sons of Italy in America will take place from Wednesday, Aug. 24, to Sunday, Aug. 28, at Michael J. Tully Park in New Hyde Park. The Order Sons of Italy is a nationwide organization whose main goal is to foster, share and educate others on the Italian cultur...
As Italy shakes, Queens stands ready to donate
by Christopher Barca Queens residents have been opening their hearts and wallets in recent days after nearly 300 people were killed and entire towns were destroyed during last week's devastating earthquake in central Italy. Just hours after the quake struck shortly after 3 a.m. local time on Aug. 24, Ridgewood-based Associazione Culturale Ita...
Home for Christmas
December 4 (Sunday) 4:30 pm. Home for Christmas. Our Lady of Hope Chapel / St. Brigids, 101 Maple Ave, Westbury, NY - Admission: $35 regular / $45 premium; open to the public. Contact: Saint Brigid's Church 516-334-0021 or 516-578-8753 [email protected] www.saintbrigid.net A traditional Italian Advent and Christ...
7-restaurant tour of 7 Italian regions begins
By John Cropley Capital Region restaurateur Angelo Mazzone is launching a seven-week, seven-restaurant journey through Italy, and his ancestral homeland is pitching in. Mazzone Hospitality on Thursday announced Angelo's Tour of Italy, during which each of the firm's restaurants will highlight a four-course prix-fixe menu featuring specialitie...
Le calzature Italiane con ICE al FFANY 2012 di New York
L'ICE, in collaborazione con l'Associazione Nazionale Calzaturifici Italiani (ANCI), organizza anche quest'anno una Mostra autonoma di calzature italiane in occasione della fiera Ffany, in programma dal 1 al 3 agosto presso l'Hotel Hilton di New York. La Ffany è la più importante manifestazione per il settore calzature della East-cost degli Stati...
Il Console Generale ha tagliato il nastro nella giornata dell'orgoglio dei parlamentari italoamericani
di Riccardo Chioni Albany si è vestita del tricolore nella ricorrenza dell'annuale Italian-American Day organizzato dalla New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators che si ritrovano per celebrare le proprie origini con una festa e, nell'Anno della Cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti, alla cerimonia ha partecipato il console g...
Announcing NYC's 10th Annual Feast of the Black Madonna di Tindari
For a decade we have gathered each September 8th at the Phoenix Bar where we have recounted stories, recited poetry, sketched chalk drawing on the sidewalk, built an outdoor shrine, sung hymns in the open air, and danced to the rhythms of pizzica and tarantella. In doing so we have created a new sense of the past and our connection to it,...
The 10 Best Italian Restaurants in NYC
By Zachary Feldman For decades, Italian cuisine in New York meant red sauce and lots of it. With the opening of Bamonte's in 1900 and Ferdinando's Focacceria four years later, tomato-heavy Neapolitan and Sicilian restaurants enjoyed a certain sustained verisimilitude, carrying the torch for their motherland while paving the way for other r...
Il Festival della Canzone Italiana di New York sabato su Rai Italia
Il sesto Festival della Canzone Italiana di New York andrà in onda su Rai Italia sabato 12 ottobre alle ore 4:00. Un appuntamento televisivo molto importante per l'Associazione Culturale Italiana, organizzatrice del Festival, poiché mette in vetrina uno spettacolo musicale, visibile a tutti gli italiani, che vivono nei 5 continenti del mondo. Il p...
Il jazzista dei sapori
di Maurita Cardone A trasferirsi a New York Antonio non ci aveva mai pensato. Voleva imparare l'inglese, sì, ma gli piaceva stare nella sua Calabria e lavorare nel ristorante di famiglia. Eppure oggi Antonio Mermolia, 30 anni, originario di Gioia Tauro, è uno dei giovani chef più promettenti nel panorama della ristorazione italiana a New Y...