Outstanding Italian Women in the US Series- Ilaria Capua
Thursday, February 15, 2018. From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm. Organized by: IIC New York. Entrance: Free. Location: Italian Cultural Institute of New York - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065. Book now! Ilaria Capua, scientist, in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto, journalist. This is the first of several talks with Italian professional women that l...
Starting Friday, February 2nd, The Comunità di Sant’Egidio Will Meet at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral
Following Friday’s weekly prayer gathering at Most Precious Blood Church (113 Baxter St.) in Little Italy, I learned that the Comunità di Sant’Egidio will be moving their hebdomadal prayer services to the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral at 273 Mott Street in Nolita, New York. Starting Friday, February 2nd, anyone interested in participating...
The Making of America; and Italians Need Apply! Just Ask Carnegie Hall
On Thursday, January 25, Carnegie Hall released the following video on Facebook, with the title, “Carnegie Hall’s 2018–2019 Season: ‘Migrations: The Making of America’”. After I saw it I wrote the following: “Your “Migrations: The Making of America” leaves out an entire Italian tradition: contributions to Jazz; Louis Prima; the Neapolitan song; et...
Spring 2018 Writers Read Series at the Calandra Institute
Thursday, February 22, 2018, 6pm. Olivia Kate Cerrone reads from The Hunger Saint (Bordighera Press, 2017). Camilla Trinchieri reads from Seeking Alice: A Novel (SUNY Press, 2016) John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - Queens College, CUNY - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036. All events are free and open to the public. RSVP...
Buon appetito: Italian chef debuts vegan eatery in Park Slope
Call it verdure Italiano! An Italian chef opened a vegan and vegetarian eatery in Park Slope that puts a healthy twist on some of her favorite red-sauce staples. The menu items at La Vellutata do not all come straight from Italy, but that doesn’t stop the cook from drawing inspiration from some of her home country’s signature foods, she said. “Peop...
Ex-‘Sopranos’ star now an in-demand Italian chef
Joseph R. Gannascoli — who played beefy mobster Vito Spatafore on “The Sopranos” — has been surprising New York-area Italian-food lovers with his cooking skills. The actor and foodie was spotted cooking up “spaghetti carbonara in a Parmesan wheel tableside” at Matteo’s of Roslyn on Wednesday night, we hear, to the delight of diners. One fan of his...
Big Chuck: I'm glad my grandfather had no test
The topic of immigration, both legal and illegal, is the third rail in political discussions right now. An interesting twist to this is President Trump’s concept of “merit-based” immigration. In theory letting only the best and the brightest into America. If this test had been applied to the great masses that came over in my grandfather’s generatio...
New York celebra l’Italia con una corsa: appuntamento a Central Park
Al Console Generale d’Italia a New York, Francesco Genuardi, l’idea è venuta osservando il calendario degli eventi podistici della città: “C’era la corsa dedicata al Giappone e ad altre Nazioni. Allora mi sono chiesto: “Perché non quella per gli italiani?”, ha spiegato. Una telefonata agli amici del prestigioso New York Road Runner, il club che org...
Fran Fraschilla grew up wanting to do nothing but coach. Now, he thinks he found something even better
Fran Fraschilla was born and raised in Brooklyn and by the time this day is over he or someone who knows him well will refer to him as An East Coast Guy at least nine times and, superficially, you can see what they mean. The confidence. The quick pace. The clothes. The references to New York. If you didn’t know where the 5-foot-9 Italian Catholic w...
Via Margherita: Coming soon with authentic Calabrese cooking
Hours at the onset will be daily starting at 7 a.m. The business will close at 9 p.m. Monday through Wednesday; 10 p.m. Thursday; 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 5 p.m. Sunday. The hope is to see patrons from across the street after mass lets out at St. Joseph's R.C. Church. The restaurant, which aims to open Friday, Feb. 9, is a family affair. Na...
Dietro le quinte del Met, gli scienziati del bello sono tre italiani
Non tutti sanno che, nei sotterranei del Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York, uno dei musei in assoluto più famosi e prestigiosi al mondo, c’è un altro Metropolitan. Un museo nel museo, a cui si accede scendendo, anziché salendo, l’imponente e maestosa scalinata principale, quella che accoglie i visitatori e li conduce in un’autentica immersione...
THE LAST SICILIAN At 13th Street Rep Reveals Plan For Extension
Actor/playwright Nick Albanese has found his stride and wants to take it a step further. "Since I was in college as a theatre major, I've always wanted to do a one-man play," says the Rhode Island native, now playing his one-man show, THE LAST SICILIAN, at the historic 13th Street Repertory Theatre through the 29th of January. "But I was young," he...