The Festa di Santa Rosalia, a 70-year Bensonhurst tradition, will go on as scheduled this year
A seven-decades-old Bensonhurst tradition has again been sustained at the 11th hour. The organizers of the Festa di Santa Rosalia, a 10-day street festival and celebration of Italian edibles — have resolved a series of glitches involving street-closure permits and tax documents that had to be filed with the city, enabling them to carry on the feas...
Book Presentation: "Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: A Biography Through Images" by Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi
Perhaps in no other novel of the twentieth century has the sense of time and place had such a central role and profound significance as in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's masterpiece, The Leopard - a work which captures Sicilian traditional society in a period of transition when faced with modernity and political upheaval. Written by Lamped...
The Rome Chamber Music Festival
Join us for an evening of music and to learn more about the Rome Chamber Music Festival, which was founded by Robert McDuffie in 2003. Since its inception, the festival has played to full houses of chamber music enthusiasts from around the world and has become one of Rome's most anticipated cultural events. June 8 -12, 2014, at the Palazzo...
History of Italian immigrants to Olean area to be discussed Sunday
By Kelsey M. Boudin You may be a Papasergi. Or perhaps a Carbone, DiGiglio, Pezzimenti or Scutella. And if you're still living in the Olean area, it's possible your family and others close by emigrated from the same Italian region — maybe even the same town — during a wave in the early 1900s. The likely genealogy of those fam...
Book Presentation "Di Palo's Guide to the Essential Foods of Italy" - December 17th, 6:30 P.M.
You are cordially invited to attend a book presentation and signing by author and purveyor of fine Italian foods, Lou Di Palo, at the Italian American Museum this Wednesday, December 17th. The Wall Street Journal said, "Mr. Di Palo acts as a voluble and disarming tour guide. He takes the reader on a trip through 20 regions of Italy, from S...
Alberto Burri retrospective at Guggenheim New York
From 9 October 2015 until 6 January 2016, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will host a major retrospective of Italian artist Alberto Burri, entitled "Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting". The exhibition is organised by Emily Braun, guest curator at the Guggenheim museum and professor at Hunter College. The show will be the first retr...
Morto a New York Claudio Angelini, stava curando il premio Capri 2015
È morto martedì a New York il giornalista e scrittore Claudio Angelini. Aveva compiuto 72 anni lo scorso 29 marzo. Lo ha comunicato la moglie, la giornalista Olga Cortese, ad amici che vivono a Capri (Napoli). Angelini - si è saputo dalla moglie - si è spento in serata a causa di una malattia che lo aveva colpito di recente. Era presidente...
Wagner's DaVinci Society honors 9 for Italian Heritage Month
By Carol Ann Benanti Wagner College's DaVinci Society kicked off its annual observance of Italian Heritage Month by hosting its 12th annual scholarship dinner Thursday in Nicotra's Ballroom at the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield. Dr. Richard Guarasci, president of Wagner College, former Borough President Ralph J. Lamberti, and Eleanor Confo...
Food reigns supreme at Festa Italiana
Gooey mozzarella, juicy sausage and warm, sugary zeppole are just some of the delicacies attendees can expect to find at the 18th annual Festa Italiana. Thousands of attendees are expected throughout the four-day festival at the Italian Center in Poughkeepsie, Ernie Bruno, Italian Center president, said. More than anything else, the a...
Tony Danza's San Gennaro Meatball Contest Will Be Streamed Live to Italy
The annual Feast of San Gennaro turns 90 this year — and to celebrate, it will be broadcast live for the first time in its Italian motherland. Organizers of the beloved neighborhood tradition are setting up cameras throughout the streets of Little Italy to document all 10 days of festivities honoring the patron saint of Naples for online viewe...
An Italian Harlem Notable: Anthony Ravielli- Renowned Illustrator
Anthony (Tony) Ravielli (1 Jul 1916–9 Jan 1997) was born in Italian Harlem. He attended the Textile High School, taught himself anatomy by volunteering at the Bellvue Hospital morgue, and later studied at the Cooper Union and Art Students League. He began his career as a portrait painter, went into advertising, and by the early 1950s had become an...
13th Annual Christmas in Italy at the Washington Irving Campus Auditorium on December 18
When: Sunday, December 18, 2016, 3:00 PMWhere: Washington Irving Campus Auditorium | 40 Irving Place, (Gramercy Park), NYC, NY 10003Members $50, Non-Members $55 Buy now. Advance ticket purchase required. Join us once again this year for NOIAW Member Cristina Fontanelli's annual Christmas in Italy concert! Special guests include the Children o...