Presentation of the Motorvehicle University of Emilia Romagna in New York
Thursday, May 4th 2017, at 11.00 am. Consulate General of Italy in New York. 690 Park Avenue, New York, NY The world’s leading automotive brands are inviting the best young talents from all over the world to develop the future of the industry through new international Master’s Degree courses in Italy that are available at a hub offering top level t...
Fred Grimaldi, Syracuse-area restaurateur, dies suddenly
Fred Grimaldi, whose restaurants on Erie Boulevard helped set the standard for Italian dining in Central New York, died on Monday, according to his daughter. Grimaldi, 78, had been receiving treatment for lung cancer, and an operation to remove a lung went well, Rita Grimaldi said this morning. On Monday, he died unexpectedly after complications fr...
Al gala della NOIAW, tra super donne italo americane
Mentre a New York si celebrava l’ambiente e la salvaguardia del pianeta terra, ero nel cuore di Manhattan insieme alle donne della NOIAW (Organizzazione Nazionale delle Donne Italoamericane) per il 37esimo anniversario della loro organizzazione. In quel giorno piovoso per le strade della città si doveva avere l’ombrello. Per chi guidava il traffico...
Sons of Italy honoring Rev. Mull with Amici Award
The Italian word for friends is amici. The Rev. Thomas Mull, pastor of Our Lady of Peace Parish in Geneva, has been a friend to Geneva Lodge 2397 of the Order of the Sons of Italy in America since being assigned here in 2013. For that dedication, he is being awarded the “Amici Award” by the local lodge Saturday night. “He’s been there for us when...
Little Italy Street Art Project: Enlivening the Streets of a Historic Neighborhood, One Mural at a Time
Walking down Mulberry Street, gelato alla nocciola in hand, I couldn’t help but watch the old man wearing a vest and a coppola animatedly talking to his friend in Sicilian. If I had snapped a picture, you would have guessed that they were in Italy, but the background gave it away. They were in Little Italy in New York City. Behind them was a colorf...
The Godfather director and cast reunite to discuss struggle of making the film
The Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in Hollywood history. At an epic night at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday, director Francis Ford Coppola and members of his cast – including Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire and James Caan, with Robert De Niro, who appeared in the 1974 sequel – g...
Brevettano i tramezzini negli Usa, tre veneti conquistano New York
L’inizio è stato una battuta: «Ma perché in America nessuno fa i tramezzini?». Perché, pur essendoci migliaia di bar, paninoteche o simili, non si vede quel «sorriso» di ingredienti tra le due fette di pane bianco del famoso «sandwich» che deve il suo nome addirittura a Gabriele D’Annunzio? E così il 38enne Filippo Paccagnella, da dieci a New York,...
Vito Acconci, Audacious Artist and Experimental Architect, Dies at 77
Artist and architect Vito Acconci died today from a stroke at the age of 77. For a little under two decades, Acconci produced strikingly original and impressionable art, before abandoning it for experimental architecture and design. Later in life, Acconci would say he hated the word “artist.” Last year, in a New York Times profile ahead of his 2016...
Chef Giuseppe Marrone Takes the Helm at ACQUA Restaurant and Wine Bar at Peck Slip, NYC
We wish our dear friend Chef Giuseppe Marrone much success on his new venture as Executive Chef and Managing Partner of ACQUA Restaurant and Wine Bar in Manhattan’s historic South Street Seaport. Stopping by after work with a few friends, we were treated to the same fine dining and Neapolitan hospitality we’ve grown accustomed to while he was in ch...
‘Frank Serpico’ catches up with the NYC cop who made Al Pacino famous
Nearly 50 years after Frank Serpico exposed endemic corruption in the New York City Police Department, his name still divides people. For some, especially those on the left, Serpico is a whistleblower — a brave loner who took on a sinister system. For law-and-order types and many an ex-cop, he’s a rat who, for the sake of “a few bad apples,” betray...
Carlo Zinelli's First Monographic Exhibition in the U.S. Shown at American Folk Art Museum
The first monographic museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Carlo Zinelli is on view at the American Folk Art Museum (2 Lincoln Sq., Columbus Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets). Titled Carlo Zinelli (1916‒1974), this survey presentation brings together fifty-five artworks – often double-sided ‒ from private collections and museu...
Iconic Coney Island restaurant Gargiulo’s hosts family reunion
Brooklyn’s infamous Gargiulo's Restaurant at 2911 West 15th Street, Coney Island, celebrated a milestone on Sunday, April 23, as generations of family members — children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins — traveled from all across the country to return to Coney Island for the gathering. Gargiulo’s, one of New York’s oldest restaurants, w...