You are cordially invited to attend a special program at the Italian American Museum this Friday evening, September 4th. Professor Gaetano Cipolla will present "The Poetry of Giovanni Meli", volume XIV of the successful series "Pueti d'Arba Sicula/Poets of Arba Sicula."   The goal of the series is to present the best poetry written in Sicili...

By Charles Boehm   US Soccer Players - Giuseppe Rossi is back in the USA, and even on holiday, he manages to find the net. It's a warm, rainy night just before Christmas at the Chelsea Piers sports complex on the east bank of the Hudson River. The New Jersey native has been calmly watching rec-level soccer and posing for photos for near...

E' la festa italiana più famosa di New York, quella che per i prossimi 11 giorni interesserà Little Italy. Si tratta naturalmente della Festa di San Gennaro, patrono della città di Napoli, che anche qui viene ricordato e venerato da oltre ottanta anni. La Festa di San Gennaro è la più lunga e più importante festa religiosa che si tiene all'aperto...

Vinitaly in the World, il progetto avviato da Veronafiere per promuovere l'eccellenza dei vini italiani nel mondo, riparte a fine gennaio dagli Stati Uniti con un nuovo nome: Vinitaly International. Un rebranding che esprime la determinazione a confermare ulteriormente il ruolo della manifestazione come ambasciatore e partner per lo sviluppo del b...

Montville-native Rossella Rago of "Cooking with Nonna" fame is making moves in the food industry.   The latest was an exclusive cooking demo Saturday at Mario Batali's Eataly in New York City, a spot where only the elite can turn up the heat. Rago and her grandmother Nonna Romana presented a traditional Pugliese menu in a program called "Pri...

Barbetta è il ristorante italiano più antico di New York, ed è ancora di proprietà della stessa famiglia che lo ha fondato nel 1906. L'idea iniziale venne a Sebastiano Maioglio che decise di investire nei pressi di Times Square. Apparteneva ad una famiglia piemontese ben nota e decisero di provare l'avventura americana.   La New Yo...

WHAT: The Vito Marcantonio Forum will present a theatrical presentation through dramatizations of his speeches as well as remarks from his contemporaries and supporters, Paul Robeson and Leonard Covello. The audience will move through creative monologues, and scenes between Marcantonio and his mentor, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Audience participants...

LYNCH THAM is pleased to present select carbon works by the celebrated Italian artist Guglielmo Achille Cavellini. The year 2014 is an important marker in Cavellini's career as art institutions across Europe and the United States celebrate the centenary of his birth. In addition to the gallery presentation, a local Cavellini Festival, organized by...

by Joseph V. Scelsa   Dear Friends, I hope you will join me and the Italian American Museum at the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street, Wednesday evening December 3, 2014, 5:30PM to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Italian sculptor Arturo DiModica's world famous "Italian Bull", formerly known as "Charging Bull", which has stood at Bo...

Presented with the NYU Department of Italian Studies, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and the Medieval and Renaissance Center.In collaboration with Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies and Department of Italian.   Dante as a Political Theorist: Historicizing Theology and Theologizing Power – An International Symposium on "...