Italian And American Vocal Concert Comes To New Rochelle Library
by Frank Mojica The New Rochelle Public Library will kick off Italian Heritage and Culture month with an Oct. 4 concert by vocalists Vincent Ricciardi and Emily Wright-Ricciardi. The husband-and-wife tenor and soprano will perform a program of Italian and American favorites, such as Mario Lanza, Julie Andrews, Andrea Bocelli, Celi...
Creativi italiani, vi apro le porte di New York
di Liliana Rosano Una lunga esperienza professionale nel mondo delle arti performative e della cultura italiana contemporanea. Valeria Orani dalla sua Cagliari è arrivata a New York dove oggi è alla direzione artistica di Umanism NY, la prima società di servizi organizzativi, promozionali e logistici dedicati ai mestieri creativi che intendo...
Celebration of Heritage, Family and Food: Festa Italiana Kicks Off This Weekend in Syracuse
For many, this is one of the most favorite festivals of the year, not only because of the delicious food, but the comfortable weather as well. Friday through Sunday Festa Italiana will offer all kinds of events, entertainment, and that great food we all love. The three-day festival will include a bocce tournament, a cultural boutique...
Ariosto after 500 years: A Symposium
Date: DA Monday, October 17, 2016 a Friday, October 21, 2016 - Time: At 4:30 pm Entrance : Free - For more information and to view the program click HERE On the occasion of the fifth centenary of the publication of the Orlando Furioso, the City University of New York and New York University in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institut...
OSIA’s Garibaldi Lodge #2583 Celebrates Columbus Day Granting Awards And Scholarships
On Friday October 14th The Columbus Day Committee of Eastchester Tuckahoe honored Dr. Walter R. Moran III, Ed.D., Superintendent of Eastchester Schools, as Man of the Year, our three local Police Departments of Bronxville, Tuckahoe and Eastchester, and Alexandria Tucci as Miss Columbus – 2016. Dr. Moran was honored for his leadership and commitmen...
Se ce la fai qui...
di Natascia Lorusso Tutto scorre velocemente senza possibilità di attesa. Ogni corsa in taxi o in metropolitana è una sfida contro il tempo per realizzare i tuoi sogni. Questa è la sensazione che ho avuto arrivando a New York, la città che ho nel cuore da quando ero bambina. Sarà che il mio pane quotidiano erano film come Saranno famosi, L...
Mario Cuomo, Vocal Foe of Italian Stereotyping, Finally Sees ‘The Godfather’
Mario M. Cuomo's hate-hate relationship with "The Godfather" has been well documented. For four decades, he refused even to see any of the movies or, presumably, to read Mario Puzo's book. He all but denied that the Mafia existed. And who could forget that unfortunate slip of the tongue during the 1992 presidential campaign, when Bill Clinton sugge...
Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience
Presentation of the Library of Congress-Anniversary book and lecture: "Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience." By co-author and guest speaker Dr. Mario B. Mignone, SUNY, distinguished service professor at Stony Brook University, and editor of Forum Italicum. For the first time...
New York mayor to be honoured in Italy
New York mayor Bill de Blasio will next week become an honorary citizen of Grassano, a town in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. Francesco Sanseverino, the proud mayor of Grassano, where de Blasio's grandmother was born, was quoted in Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno as saying that the honour was being bestowed on the New Yorker due to the "f...
Italian Welfare League. Da Ellis Island a "I nostri bambini"
Donne. Donne che danno, donne che lavorano, donne che investono il proprio tempo per sostenere un'organizzazione che si avvia a celebrare il centenario. L'Italian Welfare League nasce dalle ceneri della Grande Guerra. È il 1916 l'italia è già in guerra, gli Stati Uniti lo saranno tra poco. New York è in fermento. Le associazioni di mutuo s...
Eric Mistretta: Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - January 16, 2015 - March 8, 2015
Scaramouche is pleased to present Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, Eric Mistretta's first solo exhibition in New York. Mistretta finds a rich source of inspiration in seemingly conflicting feelings such as optimism in the face of despair, or sincerity undermined by naiveté. For Mistretta, comedy and tragedy demand each other in a very dy...
A Vacation in Your "Back Yard"
In the summer, I like to vacation in my own "back yard" and I define that as the five boroughs and suburbs of New York. I always enjoy discovering new fun neighborhoods, restaurants by bodies of water (of which there are many!) and hidden gems. I found one such gem on the "Isle of Staten" as my dear friend Grae, a native Staten Islander, alway...