National Italian American Foundation New York Gala- April 8 at Cipriani 42nd Street. Actor/Playwright Chazz Palminteri to emcee evening
The National Italian American Foundation's annual New York Gala will honor WABC Channel 7's Lisa Colagrossi, Emmy Award-winning journalist and reporter; and Ken Rosato, anchor at Eyewitness News This Morning and Eyewitness News at Noon; Janet DiFiore, Westchester County District attorney; Edward A. Riguardi, a former commercial real estate executiv...
The Italians are coming to Bookexpo America 2015!
The Italian Trade Agency is pleased to announce Italy's official participation at BookExpo America 2015 (May 27-29) at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. The Italian pavilion in Booths 1631 and 1731 will showcase the latest books, catalogues and multimedia products by 16 Italian exhibitors. See an exciting selection of art and...
Opera of the Hamptons honors a North Fork pioneer
A tradition will return to the North Fork on Saturday when Opera in the Hamptons presents "Cristina Fontanelli and her Fabulous Friends: From Opera to Broadway" at Duck Walk Vineyards North in Southold. An award-winning opera singer, Broadway performer and PBS/WLIW TV host, Cristina Fontanelli and several world-renowned artists will perfor...
The Italian Americans — Our History, Ourselves: Author Book Presentation and High Tea
Join the Staten Island Network for a High Tea featuring Maria Laurino, author of The Italian Americans: A History, a richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated companion book to the much-anticipated PBS series that aired in February 2015. Laurino's presentation, "The Italian American Experience — Our History, Ourselves," will discuss...
Bianca Mastropietro selected as Miss Columbus 2015
By Patrick Rocchio A high school senior with a fancy for softball and all things Italian has been selected as Miss Columbus for the 2015 Bronx Columbus Day Parade. Bianca Mastropietro, a senior at Preston High School, was selected from a field of three semi-finalists after penning a winning essay about Italian cooking show host Gi...
Machiavelli in the Italian Renaissance
Thursday, December 3rd, 6:30 P.M. - Italian American Museum - 155 Mulberry Street - (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) - New York, NY 10013 Historian William J. Connell, holder of the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University, will discuss his recent book Machiavelli nel R...
Syracuse International Film Festival highlights music, veterans, tribute to Sophia Loren
The 2016 Syracuse International Film Festival showcases films with a focus on music, veterans and war, sports, as well as films with a direct connection to Central New York. The 13th annual fall festival runs from Oct. 19 to 23, with more than 60 foreign and domestic screenings of all genres, including fiction, documentary, animation, shor...
Fire & ice: all’Italian American Museum Patrick Morelli presenta il suo ultimo libro
Sarà presentato stasera alle 18.30 all'Italian American Museum il libro di Patrick Morelli "Fire and Ice". In un 21mo secolo devastato dalla violenza e dall'avidità, il procuratore degli Stati Uniti, Giovanni Mastriano, e la sua bella, sofisticata e aristocratica moglie di origini italiane, Contessa Maria Garibaldi, cittadina naturalizzata america...
Ministro dell’Interno, Angelino Alfano a New York e Washington
Il ministro dell'Interno, Angelino Alfano, lunedì 17 e martedì 18 marzo, sarà negli Stati Uniti, per una serie d'incontri istituzionali, a New York e Washington. In particolare, lunedì 17 marzo, il ministro Alfano sarà a New York. Alle ore 09.00 visiterà il Ground Zero e incontrerà la stampa. Read more Source: http://ww...
Italian American Museum President Joseph Scelsa to receive Italian Government’s highest honor
The government of Italy will bestow its prestigious Ufficiale nell'Ordine al Merito decoration on Italian American Museum (IAM) president Joseph V. Scelsa, it was announced by Natalia Qunitavalle, the Italian Consul General in New York. A formal ceremony will take place at the Italian Consulate in New York City on Monday, June 2, 2014. The Order o...
Lecture/Concert: SOUTHERN ITALIAN PEASANT MUSIC IN A POST MODERN WORLD: From Lomax to Today - February 11, 2015 at 6:00 pm
In 1954 Alan Lomax made a historic year long trip through Italy making ethnographic field recordings of the music that defined every-day Italians' identity and way of life. These documentations were the first of their kind for Italy, and stand as a valuable testimony of an extremely rich diversity of expression that was already beginning t...
Italian Feast sets attendance record in New Hyde Park
By Noah Manskar The Order Sons of Italy's annual Italian Feast saw its biggest crowd ever last weekend. At least 11,500 people attended the festival at Michael J. Tully Park in New Hyde Park from Aug. 26-30, a record for the event, said Alfonso Squillante, president of the Order's Cellini Lodge. The count not yet final, but the lodge expects...