The Italian Welfare League will be hosting its annual "Autumn in New York Luncheon" to benefit Italian-American children in need. NIAF proudly is a sponsor of the luncheon which will take place on October 19, at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. For more information visit: http://italianwelfareleague.org/.    Fonte: NIAF  ...

My Big Gay Italian Wedding will host a very special performance on Saturday, March 8th, 2014 when Angela Scotto Carannante takes to the stage to officiate the wedding of "Anthony Pinnunziato" and "Andrew Polinski."   Angela Scotto Carannante, better known as "Signora" to most who know her in the Staten Island Community where she has worked a...

di Daniela Sapone   Inaugurato il primo store newyorkese di Amedei, marchio nato dall'idea di Cecilia Tessieri, la prima donna nel mondo a ricoprire il ruolo di maître chocolatier   Delle delizie di cioccolato completamente made in Italy. Amedei, l'azienda toscana fondata dalla maître chocolatier Cecilia Tessieri, ha inaugurato la sua...

"Waiting for Yesterday (Pages from a Street Kid's Life)," by Michael Parenti, tells his perspective of growing up as an Italian American in New York City in the post WWII era and it came to our attention right after we purchased a copy of "Were You Always an Italian (Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America)?"   by Maria Laurino at the S...

August 18- 22 9:am to 12pm $175Learning a new language through enriched play is the philosophy behind our programs. Children absorb language easily through active play lessons, enrichment games, music, movement, fun visual aids, arts & crafts, hands-on projects, story-time, celebration and costume days, charades, friends and laughs.   Be...

Questa è la XIV Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo e in America le celebrazioni sono partite con la premiazione - sabato scorso al Consolato di New York - di 22 studenti vincitori delle borse di studio EduItalia. New York è anche protagonista come modello delle strategie per diffondere l'italiano all'estero, tema di cui si parla in questi gi...

Daniele De Rossi could soon be following in the footsteps of fellow Italian international, Sebastian Giovinco in making a move to Major League Soccer.   MLSMultiplex posted less than a month ago that Italian newspaper, La Gazzetta dello Sport had reported Daniele De Rossi's interest in New York City FC and on Friday the midfielder only helpe...

Since 1991, IAWA has given voice to writers through its literary series every second Saturday of the month. IAWA East is held even months at Sidewalk Café and IAWA West continues at Cornelia Street Café on odd months. APRIL 11: iawa-East @ Sidewalk Café @ 5:30 PM, 94 Ave. A @ 6th St.   WHO: Anthony D'Aries is the author of The Language of Me...

by Leslie-Anne Brill Larchmont, a man swept into the bar after driving up from Manhattan. "He's our Cheers customer," said the bartender, Olga (who splits shifts between Larchmont and Manhattan). He lives next to Caravaggio, one of the three Upper East Side restaurants (in addition to Sistina and San Pietro) where owners Gerardo and Cosimo Bruno m...

In Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, there are the most-refined and best-preserved mosaics from they Byzantine age in Italy. So, which other place could have host the headquarters of Sicis, the world leader in decorative mosaic art and design?   Founded in 1989 by Maurizio Leo Placuzzi, in 25 years the Sicis mosaics have been placed in the most promi...