You be the judge: Jurists host dinner to honor St. Joseph
It began years back as a way to further preserve the proud and distinctive cultural heritage associated with the Feast of St. Joseph — and thankfully the custom has managed to withstand the test of time. And together to this day, State Supreme Court Justice Philip G. Minardo, retired state Supreme Court Justice Anthony I. Giacobbe and reti...
AIHM Featured Exhibit by Vince Forte, Jr.
The American Italian Heritage Museum. June- July 2016 Featured Exhibit "Fine Art Oil " by Vince Forte, Jr. - 1227 Central Ave. Albany, NY 12205 - 518.435.1979. Vince Forte, Jr. is a fine art oil painter painting for over 3 decades mainly in a realistic style depicting subjects such as landscape, seascape, still life, interi...
NACC to host Italian Night on Monday
A special evening celebrating Italian culture will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, to mark the opening of an Italian consulate in the building. The Niagara Falls art center will be transformed into an Italian palazzo for this special evening, which will feature a strolling violinist playing traditional favo...
Robert De Niro and the World's Top Chef to Open a Restaurant in the Most Unlikely Place
Massimo Bottura, whose Italian restaurant was dubbed the best in the world earlier this year, is teaming up with actor Robert De Niro to open a new eatery in an unexpected locale: The Bronx. At least, that's what a report by Eater would have you believe—and a post on the chef's Instagram feed (above) seems to confirm it: "Planning the new...
La seconda vita del pizzaiolo italiano Prima espulso, oggi re di New York
Adesso che gli americani scrivono di lui sui giornali e le tv lo invitano ai programmi di cucina come «ambasciatore del gusto italiano» e tutti lo chiamano «Peppe» — fortunatamente, perché Giuseppe in bocca agli anglosassoni diventa di solito «Guiseppe» o altre cose bizzarre — e sta per aprire un ristorante a New York insieme con un socio sembra ch...
Forget Brooklyn! NYC's Great Food Neighborhood Is in the Bronx
Though the increasingly nasal and seemingly conspiratorial promotion of Brooklyn as New York's crucible of great food has not yet played out, the almost-total neglect of Queens and the Bronx smells of both ignorance and outright snobbery. The fact is, just one square mile of the Bronx, known as the Belmont neighborhood, has more food culture and hi...
Pagani Opens in West Village
Pagani, a casual, regional Italian restaurant opened in the West Village on Sept. 13. The restaurant is located in the former O. Pagani & Bros. music store from 1914, the space has been restored to its late 19th century ambiance. Pagani is the latest restaurant opened by Massimo Lusardi. The menu, created by Executive Chef Ma...
Two Italians and a Dinosaur
By Stan Burnett Two nights every week, small throngs of New-Yorkers-in-the-know crowd an unmarked staircase leading to the second floor of a Mexican restaurant on 54th Street, seeking not just to go one flight up, but also to go eighty years back in time. They arrive at a usually-packed night club setting from another era. Up on the stand is an 1...
Goodbye, Sal, Goodbye, Omero - Ex-Rochester Lancers coach Sal DeRosa, ex-defender Omero Paris pass away
Two members of the original Rochester Lancers have passed away -- former coach Sal DeRosa and ex-defender Omero Paris. DeRosa, a native of Italy, coached the Lancers to their only North American Soccer League championship in 1970, taking over the team midway through the season after Alex Perolli left the club. He was 82. Paris, who died o...
Delta, ripresi i voli estivi da Roma e Venezia per New York
Torna l'operativo estivo di Delta Airlines, che ha riavviato i collegamenti giornalieri no stop da Roma Fiumicino e da Venezia per New York JFK. I voli saranno operati insieme con il partner di joint venture Alitalia. In classe BusinessElite gli aeromobili sono configurati con le nuove poltrone-letto completamente reclinabili flat-bed. Tut...
Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema.
Presenting a virtually unknown history that begins with silent films through the Italian neorealism movement, sword-and-sandal films of the 1970's and cop/action movies to contemporary films, this work-in-progress will show interviews with and highlight the achievements of classic Afro-Italian actors like Ines Pelligrini ("Arabian Knights" - 1974)...
Napoli alla "Ribalta". Quando la pizza emigra a New York
Uno è arrivato in America per amore, l'altro per amore vi è rimasto. Entrambi napoletani doc, sono i nuovi ambasciatori del made in Napoli a New York. Ingegnere il primo, chef e pizzaiolo il secondo, hanno portato alla ribalta un locale che, nomen omen, si chiama proprio Ribalta, da quasi due anni punto di riferimento degli Italiani nella Grande Me...