From Venice With Love - filming television special
by Giada Valenti Thursday, March 19 - 8 PMMadison Theatre, Rockville Centre, NY Come and join me for the filming of my show From Venice With Love as a television special to air on PBS this summer. I will be performing with a 26 piece orchestra conducted by the incredible Chris Walden composer-arranger. Music producer is Grammy Award winne...
Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City
Thursday, May 7, 2015, 6pmJoseph Sciorra, Calandra Institute, Queens College, CUNY For more than a century, Italian-American Catholics in New York City have developed a varied repertoire of devotional art and architecture to create sacred spaces in their homes and neighborhoods, spaces outside of but in relationship to the consecrated halls of loc...
Ciao Napoli Author & Culture Night at Casa Belvedere Wed. 5/20/15
Ciao Napoli. A Scrapbook of Wandering in NaplesAuthored by Antoinette Carone, Photographs by Jim Mauro Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 7:00 PM When Antoinette Carone and her husband hatched a plan to relocate to Naples, Italy, they had no inkling that every trip to the market would be a sojourn dating back as far as 2500 years....
Mangia! Bravo Italiano Festival Kicks Off Friday With Plenty Of Food
The 31st Annual Bravo Italiano Festival kicks off Friday. At the Italian American Club in Watertown, volunteers are busy whipping up more than 600 meals. They're cooking up plenty of pasta and sauce. Usually the event is held at the Fairgrounds Arena, but with the work going on, there they're moving the event in-house. "We're ho...
Katerina Ristorante to bring authentic Italian cuisine to Great Neck
Cary Rosner said most Italian restaurants do not offer real Italian cuisine."When you go out to a restaurant, you're not being served Italian food, you're being served an Americanized version of Italian food," Rosner said. "Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I believe it has veered so far right that it's time to bring simplicity back to I...
Così l'hi-tech italiano trova i fondi negli Usa
AAA tecnologia italiana cerca investimenti americani. Con tre parole chiave con cui, l'Italia si è presentata all'elite del business americano, in un summit dal titolo esplicito: "Influence, relevance and growth" (influenza, rilevanza e crescita). Opera di Fernando Napolitano - già amministratore delegato di Booz Allen Hamilton in Italia,...
John Cristiano to lead Goshen parade as grand marshal
Heroes are everywhere, if we look hard enough. The honor of being grand marshal for Monday's Memorial Day parade in Goshen has been bestowed on John B. Cristiano, 87, of Goshen, N.Y. Cristiano immigrated with his family from Castlegrande, Italy, in 1947. His father had been crossing the Atlantic to earn money in the United States to send h...
Arthur Avenue Celebrates Ferragosto
By Kathryn Roberts It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. As a nation mourned the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, an aroma of spices and sweets drifted down Arthur Avenue Sunday for the 19th consecutive year at the annual Ferragosto Festival. Tourists, neighborhood locals and students navigated through crowde...
La prima di "Pinocchio" rivisitato in forma teatrale da Finazzer Flory alla Casa Italiana della NY University
di Riccardo Chioni Aveva fatto l'ingresso trionfale con la Columbus Parade in ottobre, una sorta di preview in vista del tour a stelle e strisce che mercoledì ha portato il "pezzo di legno made in Italy" più famoso al mondo alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò per la prima di "Pinocchio" nell'interpretazione di Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. &...
New York Italians Scholarship Fundraising Campaign
New York Italians in collaboration with Fordham University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Department is pleased to announce that starting September 2013 we will create a fund to encourage the study of the Italian language, preserve Italian traditions and benefit students enrolled in Italian programs at Fordham University providing...
Grande successo per "Those of Bagheria" a New York
Elisa Martorana, fotoreporter bagherese, sta riscuotendo un grande successo oltreoceano presso la prestigiosa galleria d'arte Casa Belvedere di NY. Martorana è arrivata alla Italian Cultural Fondation con il suo progetto fotografico Quelli di Bagheria dopo Baarìa, già patrocinato dal Mibac e dal Parlamento della Legalità, conquistando pubb...
Al Fancy Food Show le eccellenze del Made in Sicily
Una delegazione di aziende siciliane presenti a New York in occasione del Summer Fancy Food 2013 ha partecipato ieri ad un incontro organizzato presso l'ufficio di rappresentanza di Banca Popolare di Vicenza al 595 di Madison Avenue. A fare gli onori di casa Gianni Sellers responsabile del desk dell'Istituto bancario italiano che ha illustrato le...