Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, announces the lineup for the third annual IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY. This 17-day festival will offer 9 fully staged productions from Italy, among other events and activities. Shows will be presented in all five boroughs of New York.   Each show will h...

The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation has donated a granite marker honoring Peter Caesar Alberti, the first Italian American immigrant, to the Italian American Museum in New York's Little Italy.   The gift arrives in time for June 2nd, which marks the 380th anniversary of Alberti's arrival in the New World. The date is also...

State Sen. Joe Addabbo, Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and the American Italian Cancer Foundation are sponsoring two free mammogram events in the 15th Senate District in November. On Friday, Nov. 6, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the foundation will be at the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, located at 6200 Beach Channel Dr. in Arverne, to provide no-...

Chef Antonio Mermolia and entrepreneur are two capatostas, an Italian expression meaning a volitional and stubborn type, someone who takes a different path despite knowing it will not be an easy one.    "Our chosen path is the Italy of the South, an auteur South that has still to be explored," explains Mermolia, "In particular I fo...

Italian American One Voice Coalition President Andre DiMino appeared on Ebru Today discussing the Italian stereotypes in the media from "The Sopranos", to " Jersey Shore", to Governor Chris Christie in Time Magazine.   You can watch the full interview here.

Prende il via lunedì prossimo, 4 marzo, il primo appuntamento di "A Taste of Italy", l'iniziativa, inserita nel programma dell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, organizzato dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri dall'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington e dai nostri Consolati negli USA ed inaugurato lo scorso dicembre, a cura delle 7 Eccellenze...

After the death of Sopranos star James Gandolfini, Douglas Rogers joins a tour of the show's familiar New Jersey landmarks. On a crowded corner of 39th Street and 7th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, a roly-poly Italian-American man is selling Sopranos memorabilia to tourists from the back of a van. He has books, posters, New York number plates sa...

Learn Italy New York and Meetup NYC Lingua Italiana: Circolo Letterario e Amici Nuovi have the pleasure to invite you all to our APERITIVO LEARN ITALY at Pizzeria Ribalta on Monday August 26th at 6.30pm.   Great occasion to meet all the native speakers members and teachers of LEARN ITALY NEW YORK, the only 100% Made in Italy school in New Yo...

Sarà proiettato all'Italian American Museum il 21 novembre Where her Feet Stood (Dove Posarono i Suoi Piedi), film documentario di Luca Guardabascio.Il 4 giugno 1947 a Casanova Staffora, villaggio rurale della provincia di Pavia, Angela Volpini (7 anni) incontra una signora mentre si trovava su una collina con suoi amici. La bella signora dice ad A...

alla famiglia Maramotti il prestigioso American Art Award del Whitney Museum per la sua preziosa Collezione. La consegna del Premio si terrà il 7 maggio 2014 a New York.   L'American Art Award del Whitney Museum è assegnato ogni anno a persone e organizzazioni animate da costante un impegno a favore del patrimonio artistico e culturale delle...