Opening Night at the 2015 Santa Rosalia Feast in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Yesterday kicked off the 2015 Feast of Santa Rosalia in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. A neighborhood staple for 40 years, the celebration features nightly entertainment, games, rides, and plenty of delicious food. The festivities continue until Sunday, August 30th. Enjoy the many amusements, but please don't forget the true reason for the celebration and...
PANERAI Opens Flagship Store in Miami
Officine Panerai opened its first ever flagship store in the Americas this month. The boutique of the Italian quality sports watchmaker is situated in the heart of the Miami Design District, an area of the city which has recently been transformed into an exclusive luxury shopping destination. The boutique features the new retail design concept...
Gondola Glasses: The first sunglasses in history invented in Venice
by Claudia Baroncelli As an unmissable piece in every fashionista's (and not only) handbag, sunglasses are nowadays synonymous with fashion and glamour, the accessory all of us love to wear and show off especially on sunny days. But did you know the history of the universally used and glamorous sunglasses was strictly linked to that of the...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: From Lost Boy to Poet
My father died six months before I was born in 1919. He was in his 50s and suffered a heart attack on the stoop of his house in Yonkers, N.Y. Months after I was born, my mother was institutionalized for depression. My Aunt Emilie from France and her husband took me in, and we soon moved to France, near Strasbourg. My first memory is b...
Union County Columbus Day Flag Raising is Oct. 9 at County Courthouse in Elizabeth
The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders announced the Union County's seventh annual Columbus Day Flag Raising event is set for Friday, Oct. 9, at 1 p.m., on the steps of the historic Union County Courthouse. The keynote speaker/guest of honor is Paula Maida Mooney, an Italian-American author from Summit, who also works with HomeTowne Tele...
Greenwich’s St. Lawrence Society honors Columbus
By Ken Borsuk The traditional Columbus Day flag raising outside of Town Hall is set for 9 a.m. Monday in celebration of Italian heritage. Despite town offices being closed for the holiday, the Italian flag will be formally hoist and displayed outside Town Hall for the day. A reception will follow at the St. Lawrence Club, 86 Valley Ro...
Mini Italian Film Festival!
Grab a glass of wine and relax with the Greater New York Region for its first mini Italian film festival! Courtesy of the award-winning television channel Eurochannel, four short films by Italian filmmakers will be screened in Italian with English subtitles. The screening will be followed by a guided conversation and time for networking. L...
Italian American Cultural Hub, I Am Books, Opens in Boston’s North End
by Matt Conti I Am Books, the country's first Italian American bookstore, opened this week in Boston's North End at 189 North Street across from the Paul Revere House. Owner Nicola Orichuia and partner Jim Pinzino want the bookstore to serve as a cultural hub for locals and visitors interested in diving into the rich world of Italian...
Expo site to be turned into a technology park in the health, nutrition and sustainability sectors
by Sara Monaci The project for the future of Expo Milano 2015 is taking shape, starting from the public funds to be made available: €150 million every year for 10 years. The announcement came from Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who was in Milan to open the second phase of Expo and discuss the future of the site of the Universal exhibition wh...
Brunello Cucinelli Is Probably the Best Boss Ever
By Justin Fenner No offense to your boss, but Brunello Cucinelli sounds like the greatest person on the planet to work for. To wit: The king of Italian cashmere makes his employees take a 90-minute break every day at 1 P.M., when many of them eat a subsidized lunch in the company cafeteria. (And this isn't your standard break...
That's Amore! Lady Gaga's Father's Italian Restaurant Hosts Beautiful Proposal
by Matthew Scott Donnelly The specials this week at Joanne Trattoria, a New York City restaurant owned by Lady Gaga's father, Joe Germanotta? A traditional spaghetti and meatball dinner, herb roasted chicken and marriaaaaaaaaaaaage! This morning (November 30), Lady Gaga shared a video of YouTubing duo WhenSheMetShe (better known as Al...
Exploring the 19th-Century Rooms (and Ruins) of the Tenement Museum
The Tenement Museum offered one of its rare "Snapshot" tours last night, allowing visitors to not only walk intoevery apartment on all five floors of the great old 1863building, but also take pictures throughout, breaking theinstitution's usual "no-photos" rule. The cost was $30, it included an excellent spread from Russ & Daughters and Economy...