Crusading Author To Speak At Poughkeepsie's Italian Center About Rushmore's Italian American Chief Carver Denied Credit By the Feds
Author Douglas J. Gladstone, whose controversial book argues that the United States Department of the Interior's National Park Service (NPS) is chiseling Mount Rushmore's Italian American chief carver out of posthumous credit, will talk about the issue before members of Noi Italiani D'Oggi (NIDO) at the Italian Center four weeks from tonight, on Th...
Si rinforza la presenza friulana a New York: Nasce il Fogolâr Furlan Big Apple
Il desiderio contagioso di "Friuli" nel mondo non si arresta. L'Assemblea dei soci dell'Ente Friuli nel Mondo ha espresso all'unanimità parere favorevole all'ingresso in famiglia del Fogolâr Furlan - Friuli Big Apple (New York – Usa) che si affianca alla storica presenza friulana della Famee Furlane, nata nel lontano 1929. A darne notizia...
Brooklyn Italian-American Group honors founder of Caruso Museum
The Federation of Italian-American Organizations held its 36th annual fundraising gala at the El Caribe County Club on Sunday, April 7, and the dinner helped raise funds for the federation's new Italian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. One of the honorees was Cav. Uff. Aldo Mancusi, who has been the caretaker and founder of the Enrico Caruso Museum of...
Borough President joins Italian consul general, Caruso grandson at Enrico Caruso Museum
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...
Largo all'arte italiana
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...
Italian Futurism makes its way to New York
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...
Cantando lode a Dio nella lingua del cuore. La messa in italiano ora ha anche il coro
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...
Opera Ithaca presents a dream: 'Il Sogno'
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...
Monsignor Nicholas Sivillo dies at 76
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...
MEDITERANEAN TALES How a movie director and a writer tell migrations
When: Monday, October 24, 2016 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm Where: Italian Cultural Institute of NY, 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021 Organized by : IIC - Entrance : Free European migrants' crisis is a crucial and present topic for our society. The ability to deal with it is currently at the center of the debate taking place within...
State & Union: Celebrating 60 years of marriage, and the immigrant story
The following was written by Angela McKay of Bolivar, in honor of her grandparents on their 60th wedding anniversary: There's an Italian proverb that says, "Love demands faith, and faith, firmness." For Simone and Vittoria Rende of Bolivar, celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary today, the story of their life together is a reflect...
Italian-American Foodways
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Italian American Review *deadline for submissions extended to May 15* Italian and Italian-American food has a long history in the homes, markets, and restaurants of the United States. For many immigrants, the hunger and food shortages associated with la miseria (literally, "misery") were a primary motivation...