ART & PERCEPTION: Featuring Contemporary Italian American Artists in Westchester County
Artists of Italian descent have enriched American aesthetic culture, embracing new styles and techniques. Without limitation, they opened up to a variety of new styles with fresh ideas and imagination. Featured artists include world-renowned pop artist Charles Fazzino, as well as Westchester residents Rosemarie Cherundolo, Hank Rondina, Eleanora Gr...
Rome's Ca’ d’Oro opens second U.S. gallery
The prestigious Galleria Ca' d'Oro, a Rome, Italy landmark, has opened their doors in the Chelsea section of New York City in partnership with fine art photographer, curator and collector Giada Baselice. This is Ca' d'Oro's second U.S. location after opening in Miami four years ago. Galleria Ca' d'Oro was established in 1970 in Rome by Ant...
The Neighborhood That Disappeared, to air Friday on WMHT
By Paul Grondahl It has taken more than 50 years, but the silently displaced South End residents pushed out of their homes, businesses and tight-knit Italian-American enclave by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's South Mall government complex are finally having the last word. "I wanted to give voice to the voiceless," said Mary Paley, t...
Nine Productions From Italy to Premiere at IN SCENA ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL, 5/4-20
Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, announces the lineup for the third annual IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY. This 17-day festival will offer 9 fully staged productions from Italy, among other events and activities. Shows will be presented in all five boroughs of New York. Each show will h...
Parks Dept. donates marker honoring first Italian immigrant to Italian American Museum
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation has donated a granite marker honoring Peter Caesar Alberti, the first Italian American immigrant, to the Italian American Museum in New York's Little Italy. The gift arrives in time for June 2nd, which marks the 380th anniversary of Alberti's arrival in the New World. The date is also...
An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of NY's Irish and Italians
This is an excerpt from the introduction to An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians, a book by former Newsday reporter Paul Moses that is to be released July 7 by NYU Press. On those chilly March days when I walked home with the other boys from Mary Queen of Heaven School in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn in...
Cuomo taps DiFiore as chief judge
by Joseph Spector Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore will become the state's next chief judge if she's confirmed by the state Senate next year. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday nominated DiFiore, 60, to head the state Court of Appeals, the state's top court. Cuomo had until Tuesday to name a successor for Chief Ju...
Gei. Il Friendship Award a Genuardi
Il nuovo console generale a New York, Francesco Genuardi, è stato ieri ospite ad una colazione data in suo onore dal Gruppo Esponenti Italiani nella sala privata del ristorante Le Cirque di Manhattan. Il ministro Genuardi è stato accolto dal presidente del Gei, Lucio Caputo, che lo ha presentato ai numerosissimi ospiti presenti, in rappresentanza...
To the letter! Petition to add second Z to Verrazano bridge
Can't they spell? A Dyker Heights activist is demanding the Metropolitan Transportation Authority tack another Z onto the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge so it matches namesake Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. Every day that the Florentine explorer's misspelled cognome hangs on roadway signs is a travesty, and now its time to do something abo...
Italian Festival celebrates a way of life in Niagara Falls
It was just five years ago when organizer Carmine Bianco, an elementary school physical education teacher in Niagara Falls, found himself in the unenviable role of Italian Festival rescuer. He jokingly called the 2012 festival on the front lawn of a friend's Pine Avenue restaurant, "The World's Smallest Italian Festival." Fast forward...
Andre DiMino appears on Ebru Today discussing Italian stereotypes
Italian American One Voice Coalition President Andre DiMino appeared on Ebru Today discussing the Italian stereotypes in the media from "The Sopranos", to " Jersey Shore", to Governor Chris Christie in Time Magazine. You can watch the full interview here.
De Blasio, l'italoamericano che vuole cambiare New York
New York potrebbe avere un altro sindaco italoamericano. Il responso delle primarie democratiche non è ancora definitivo, ma Bill de Blasio è al momento oltre la soglia del 40% delle preferenze, quella necessaria per evitare il ballottaggio e presentarsi alle elezioni del 5 novembre come il candidato del partito, contro il repubblicano Joseph Lhota...