This Queens spot is making savory cannoli and Nutella pizza
Queens is home to lots of pizzerias and red sauce joints, but one restaurant takes Italian-American classics to a whole new level of hybrid cuisine. Allora in Bayside, Queens has plenty of traditional Italian-American staples on the menu (rollatini, baked clams), but it’s the tuna tartare cannoli and s’mores pizza that draw the most attention. Chef...
VINUM restaurant: How a chef battles a beleaguered location in Stapleton
Whether you're a single person or head of a household, there are programs that can pick up the slack in the grocery bill to make ends meet. As a bonus produce hails from community gardens around the borough. Project Hospitality of Port Richmond, the Staten Island Hunger Task Force and the Richmond County Savings Foundation organize and support this...
Lidia Bastianich Takes Broadway—Well, Almost
Napoli, Brooklyn, the new play by Meghan Kennedy, will open June 27 Off-Broadway in a production at the Roundabout Theatre Company. The show follows a New York City family that has found itself at odds; the three daughters of the Muscolino clan are coming of age in a very different time and place than their Italian immigrant parents, and the play f...
Francesca Capetta and Liliane Montevecchi Plan Dean Martin Salute at Weill Recital Hall
Cabaret singer Francesca Capetta will be joined by Tony Award winner Liliane Montevecchi for a July 12 birthday salute to the 100th anniversary of the birth of late film star and recording artist Dean Martin in the Weill Recital Hall at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Francesca Capetta Sings Dean Martin: A Centennal Celebration will celebrate the life of...
Quella volta che il fascismo rovinò la fama di Pirandello a New York
Fu il 20 luglio 1935 che Luigi Pirandello sbarcò al faro di Ambrose a New York dal transatlantico Conte di Savoia, varato appena quattro anni prima, il 1931, per mano di Maria José. Il piroscafo non ottenne mai il nastro azzurro dell’Atlantico (Blue Riband), come il maestoso Rex (traversata 4 giorni, 12 ore e 53 minuti alla media di 29 nodi), ma in...
A Look Inside a New York City Restaurateur’s Home Kitchen With the Scotto Family
The Scotto family is best known for their Italian restaurant in New York City, Fresco by Scotto. Recently, the family of four — Marion, Rosanna, Anthony Jr., and Elaina — have revealed the inner workings of their own kitchen in their home on Long Island, showing that their love for food goes beyond their family-owned operation in the city. While ma...
Staten Island Nightlife: Cielo offers fine Italian fare, ambiance
It's Saturday night. And though Thursday may be the new Saturday, the weekend still reigns supreme when it comes to the hustle and bustle of the local restaurant scene. Cielo Ristorante -- note cielo translates from Italian into meaning "heaven" or as a member of the wait staff stated, "the sky," -- fits snugly into our hypothesis. The dining spot...
Oops! CNY high school graduates get diploma with misspelling
When Rome Free Academy graduating seniors received their diplomas during ceremonies Saturday, they soon noticed there was a tiny error. The text on the diplomas said they were handed out in Roma, NY, not Rome, NY. Rome (not Roma) City School Superintendent Peter Blake said the mistake was discovered after the ceremony when parents and students bega...
Amore e una giusta cattiveria: ecco la ricetta delle eccellenze italiane in Usa
Trecento imprese distribuite in 284 stand su una superficie di quasi 8.000 metri quadrati, un premio che per la prima volta viene assegnato negli Usa e un numero record di visitatori: sono le cifre del Padiglione Italia al Summer Fancy Food Show 2017, la più grande fiera del Nord America dedicata alle specialità food&beverage che si è conclusa il 2...
The Italian American Writers Association 2nd Saturday Reading Series 2017
July 8 (Saturday) 5:45 - 7:45 pm The Italian American Writers Association 2nd Saturday Reading Series. Actress, screenwriter and essayist Marianne Leone will read from her second memoir, Ma Speaks Up, published this year by Beacon Press. Peter Carravetta, the D'Amato Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at SUNY/Stony Brook University,...
Inside Magazzino, Upstate New York’s Next Great Art Escape
You’ve heard of the Slow Food movement: farm-to-table, market-to-hipster, ramp-to-salad bowl and the like. But have you heard of the Slow Art movement? It’s a philosophy that Vittorio Calabrese, the director of Magazzino Italian Art, hopes this new upstate weekender destination will embody. Turns out Slow Food also began in Italy (as a protest agai...
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel has been recreated at the Oculus
It's hard to say which feat was more grueling: Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel in the early 16th century or the lengthy construction of the Oculus at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. The former took nearly 15 years to complete and was a serious toll on the legendary artist; the latter was finished 10 years late and $2 billion ove...