Italian director Giovanna Taviani comes to RIT
by Greg Livadas Giovanna Taviani, a celebrated Italian film director, will be an artist-in-residence at Rochester Institute of Technology, which sponsored her visit to Rochester to show her film, "Ritorni (Homecomings)," at the High Falls Film Festival. "Other than being a director, she has created a documentary film festival in Sicily an...
Perreca’s baking traditional panettone every day, right up until Christmas
By Karen Bjornland In a small back room at Perreca's Bakery in Schenectady, Maria Perreca Papa is in a jolly mood. The coals in her 100-year-old brick oven are red-hot and the aroma of rum and raisins is in the air. On this morning, the rich, cream-colored dough is rising nicely, and Papa hovers over the 44 round pans, which are big...
Ridendo e scherzando - Ettore Scola
Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 6:00 pm. Italian Cultural Institute of New York. 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10021 - USA. Organized by : ICI. Entrance : Free. Book now! Screening of the documentary film Ridendo e Scherzando, a tribute to the late director and screen-wright by his daughters, portraying an intellectual w...
Italian American Democratic Leadership Council Endorses Bill de Blasio for Mayor of New York City
The Italian American Democratic Leadership Council (IADLC), the voice of Italian Americans in the Democratic Party, endorses Bill de Blasio for Mayor of New York City. As the elected Public Advocate, he is already the highest ranking city official of Italian heritage in NYC. Bill is very proud of his Italian heritage– his family is from east of N...
Linear Genius, Bold and Transformative
by Miriam Bale "Every time we take the subway in New York, we're in Vignelli-land," says Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, in the new documentary "Design Is One." Ms. Antonelli is referring to the Italian couple Lella and Massimo Vignelli, whose firm designed many graphic elements for t...
Federico on my Mind: Fellini in mostra a New York
di Chiara Zaccherotti Se a Ray Charles bastava una vecchia canzone per farsi tornare in mente la dolce Georgia, le suggestioni che si scatenano con "l'artigiano che non ha niente da dire, ma che sa come dirlo" sono innumerevoli e ancora oggi vive in tutto il mondo. Federico on my Mind è il titolo della mostra con cui, nell'ambito...
Groppelo's Itallian food with a Brazilian flavor
Groppelo's is a classic american success story with a great back story. Maury Soares, a youthful hospitality pro, came to america by way of Brazil. His uncle had an italian restaurant for 40 years, near Rio De Janeiro where Maury worked for 6 years and learned the hospitality business. Prior to his emigrating to the U.S., his grandfather t...
Nessuna conferma sulla visita del Papa in Usa dalla Santa Sede, ma la città si prepara ad accoglierlo
di Riccardo Chioni Personalmente, Papa Francesco recentemente ha espresso il desiderio di compiere un viaggio negli Stati Uniti e nonostante la Santa Sede non abbia ancora confermato la missione apostolica, nella Big Apple c'è già chi è in fermento e si sta adoperando per stendere il "tappeto bianco" al Citi Field, lo stadio dei Mets. Com...
FILM: Divorce Italian Style + Live Monologue: The Man From the South
Italian American Museum Presents SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE Divorzio all'Italiana (Divorce Italian Style) - Film Screening (Italian with English Subtitles) - Directed by Pietro Germi - Starring Marcello Mastroianni and L'Uomo del Sud (The Man From the South) "Man From the South" "Because I'm m...
Jazzin' around Barocco project
Paola Quagliata is a singer who has worked in many of Italy's most important opera houses. Her repertoire consists mostly of baroque and 18th century music, both of which she has studied in-depth and performed with renowned musicians such as Ottavio Dantone, Gabriel Garrido, E. L. Banzo, Rubèn Dubrovsky and Roberto de Simone. However, she als...
Vivaldi Restaurant and Ballroom in Bayside Queens a short trip from Bronx on Throgs Neck Bridge
By Patrick Rocchio A quick trip over the Throgs Neck Bridge brings locals still another option for dinning and catering, just minutes from Pelham Bay and surrounding communities. With a group of recent and upcoming events and a catering for families and parties on Thanksgiving Day, Vivaldi Ristorante, located in Bayside, Queens, is on...
Italian American Experience Lecture Series: Clash of Civilizations in Italy
Amara Lakhous, author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, examines the theme of identity through the descriptions of idiosyncrasies in multicultural Italy by way of a story of a murder in Rome. This is the last of 5 lectures in the Italian American Experience Series Fall 2014, New Books on Italian Americana pres...