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By Nino Pantano To hear the Honorable Consul General of Italy Natalia Quintavalle cordially calling Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz "Marty" was music to our ears. Both Markowitz and Quintavalle, accompanied by her deputy, Lucia Pasqualini, were visiting the Enrico Caruso Museum of America for the first time on Monday, Oct. 7   Th...

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Il panorama culturale italiano a New York si arricchisce di una nuova istituzione. CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art) ha annunciato che aprirà al pubblico al numero 421 di Broome Street il prossimo 22 Febbraio.   Fondata nel 2013 da Laura Mattioli, curatrice, storica d'arte e collezionista, CIMA è una fondazione privata non profit dedicata...

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by Rose Minutaglio   2014 looks to be a promising year for the promotion of twentieth-century Italian art in New York City. This weekend the grand opening of two new Italian Futurist exhibitions intend to shed light on this often overlooked and misunderstood movement in Italian art. Both the Center for Italian Modern Art and the Guggenheim w...

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by Robert Sheer   It's the classic case of giant vs. not-so-giant. New York City-based Eataly, a 58,000-square-foot Italian-themed foodie mall co-owned by celebrity chef Mario Batali, is demanding that popular Indy food truck Little Eataly hand over its name.   Indianapolis residents Chae and Rob Carmack — who said they put their...

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Live Theater at the Italian American Museum in NYC continues with WOMEN! on Saturday September 27th at 7.30 PM and Sunday September 28th at 6.00 PM. The Italian American Museum NYC is located at 155 Mulberry Street (Corners of Mulberry & Grand Streets) New York, NY 10013. Suggested donation $20.   An extraordinary soiree that showcases f...

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C'è chi arriva a New York sospinto dal vento del cambiamento o del sogno americano o ancora da quell'idea di libertà che questo paese promette e spesso garantisce. C'è chi arriva e parte in fretta, chi non ha nemmeno il tempo di respirarla questa metropoli che è già di ritorno. Tra le architetture mastodontiche che ti conducono verso il cielo, ci...

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On a recent night on a desolate, far-west strip of the Meatpacking District, it's cold and dark — but inside Santina, it's summer on the Italian coast. Squint, and you could be on a cruise-ship deck: A squad of servers in bright teal, orange and purple polo shirts, white pants and Rod Laver sneakers roam the new, 100-seat restaurant with cheery ef...

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Born in the Sicilian town Ventimiglia, Biagio Settepani hoped for a career in journalism.   Now, 55 years later, the master pastry chef who owns the Pasticceria Brunos of Dongan Hills and West Brighton claims four successful bakeries in his lifetime along with a solid set of culinary honors and international accolades.   Read more &n...

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Opera Ithaca will present "Il Sogno," a contemporary opera of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," this weekend at the Lehman Alternative Community School Theatre. Written by American composer Kristin Hevner Wyatt while living in a convent in Italy, "Il Sogno" (pronounced "eel so-nyo," Italian for "The Dream") is a contemporary Italian o...

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by Christopher Barca Middle Village Catholics have lost one of their more beloved religious figures. Monsignor Nicholas Sivillo, the former pastor of Our Lady of Hope Church at 61-27 71 St., died last Friday night at the age of 76. According to Rev. Michael Carrano, the church's pastor, Sivillo recently suffered a stroke and had been ill...

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