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Dr. Panayiotis Meleties, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs of York College/CUNY in Jamaica, Queens, announced today that Dr. Donna Chirico has been appointed Dean of the college's School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Chirico's appointment is especially noteworthy as she is a product of York College both as an alumna and as a facul...

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The Italian American Museum, Its Board Members and President Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa congratulate Comm. Michael P. Ricatto on receiving the 2014 Lt. Det. Joseph Petrosino Association in America - Jack and Helen Como Entrepreneurial Award On Thursday, August 14th, the Lt. Det. Joseph Petrosino Association in Ame...

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Amid snowy skies, the Italian Cultural Center ( ICC ) of St. John's University brought some holiday cheer to the Queens campus as it hosted its annual holiday gathering on Thursday, December 12.   The event took place in the D'Angelo Center and was attended by members of the community including Rev. Joseph L. Levesque, C.M., S.T.D., presiden...

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Among the world's most impressive professions—brain surgeon, astronaut, symphony conductor, string theorist, rock star—few rank higher in my personal pantheon than literary translator.   Perhaps because I'm terrible at languages. I get winded after a hundred words trying to read a French or Italian newspaper.   Read more   Sour...

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Al Museum of the Moving Image di Astoria, nel borough newyorchese del Queens, durante la terza edizione del prestigioso Gala organizzato da La Fondazione NY, sono stati premiati gli stilisti Domenico Dolce e Stefano Gabbana e il regista Baz Lhurmann, vincitore di un Academy Award.   Fondato nel 1985, Dolce&Gabbana è oggi uno dei maggiori...

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By Christian Araos The Order Sons of Italy will host its annual Italian Feast starting Wednesday Aug. 26 at Michael J. Tully Park. The festival will open at 6 p.m. on the Aug. 26 and will run through Sunday Aug. 30. It will be open from 6-11 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 3-11 p.m. on Saturday and 3-10 p.m. on Sunday. There will be fire...

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In a cemetery on the outskirts of New York City, a Jewish city council member, Italian-American dignitaries and history buffs honored a contemporary of Mozart. The gathering of such a diverse group of people and the twist of the story that ended in this old New York City cemetery on October 20, 1987 mirrored the various turns in the life of the hon...

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Emigration and religion are two words that are often, and properly, juxtaposed one to another, and the history of Italian emigration to the United States is no exception to this rule. Religion was for our emigrants a fundamental part in the beginning of their life in the new world, and remained so even in the continuation of their lives and for tho...

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In May, we informed you that Francesco Vezzoli would be returning to MoCA in 2014 with "The Church of Vezzoli" exhibition. We now know that Vezzoli has planned three separate shows in three different cities (view the trailer for "The Trinity" here), the second of which will take place at MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York.   The artist purchased a...

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  WTI Magazine #79    2016 May 13Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Ciao from Rome! Welcome to the 79th issue of our online magazine. The second tour of presentations of We the Italians – the book has been a big success! Once again I've been lucky to meet a lot of committed successful Italian Americans and Italians recently moved to t...

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