A Dinner & Bocce Challenge
Monday, October 5 - The Italian American Community Center (I.A.C.C.) - 257 Washington Avenue Ext, Albany 12205 Reservations for dinner and team sign up must be in by Friday October 2nd to George Urciuoli at [email protected] Dinner at Treviso's Italian Buffet 5pm - 6:15pm followed by Bocce at 6:30pm. Dinner is $25/person inc...
Architect Aldo Andreoli Approaches His Craft With European Artistry And American Practicality
by Adam Lehrer The New York-based Spring Studios, a massive creative studio in TriBeca that is set to compete with studios such as Milk, is a monumental achievement in design and architecture even to the most untrained of eyes. With no background in applied creativity, one can still feel the utter expansiveness of the space: the ceilings...
Ferragamo mixes high fashion with hide-and-seek to advertise spring season
By Sarah Jones Italian fashion label is pursuing the finer things in life through a vivacious spring/summer 2016 advertising campaign. "Lo Splendore Della Vita," or "The Splendor of Life," is based on the eponymous brand founder's idea that beauty is limitless and a drive for perfection never ceases. Beyond promoting th...
Varricchio ospite del Gei. Friendship Award al nuovo ambasciatore
L'ambasciatore Armando Varricchio è stato ospite d'onore ieri a una colazione del Gei, Gruppo Esponenti Italiani, alla quale hanno partecipato autorità, Vip (fra i quali il nuovo console generale a New York, ministro Francesco Genuardi), esponenti del mondo imprenditoriale, rappresentanti di varie organizzazioni e giornalisti che hanno gremito la S...
The Savoy in Rome: From boarding house to Italian restaurant institution
For more than nine decades, the Destito family has been serving up Steak al Ciccio — thinly sliced tenderloin cooked in a red wine sauce. "It's has been on the menu as long as we've had menus to look at," said Chris Destito, a part of the fourth-generation of the family running the Italian restaurant in Rome. "It's basically the same recip...
Friends of Vito Marcantonio Forum Invite You to Celebrate the VMF's Fifth Anniversary at Gaetana’s Cucina Italiana Sunday, July 17, 2016
What: The Friends of the Vito Marcantonio Forum will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Vito Marcantonio Forum (VMF), whose public events have included nearly thirty lectures and panels accompanied by skits, dramatizations, presentations, and readings for diverse audiences ranging from 20 to more than 100 people. In addition, the VMF supports a...
Hon. Laura Boldrini, President of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies, Meets with NOIAW
On Friday, July 28, representatives from the National Organization of Italian American Women met with Hon. Laura Boldrini, the President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati), at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University. Hon Francesco Genuardi, the Consul General of Italy in New York, hosted the meeting. President Bol...
Caffe Nero to come to Brookline's Washington Square
Washington Square is about to get yet another coffee shop. In addition to Athan's, Café Fixe, Starbucks and Dunkin, a London-based family owned chain of coffee houses is slated to make its Brookline debut in the store space that was once occupied by 7-Eleven and Square Market convenience store before it went empty for the past few months. &nb...
John Franco Honored By State Senate
Senator Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. announced that the New York State Senate recently passed a legislative resolution honoring former New York Mets pitcher John Franco. Franco was honored for his commitment to preserving Italian-American Heritage as part of the recent Italian-American Day Celebration at the state capitol."John Franco is the true embo...
Bordighera Press celebrates 20 years
Bordighera Press celebrates 20 years of publishing VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Italiana, three book series (VIA Folios, Crossings, Saggistica), and the Bordighera Poetry Prize. Bordighera Press publishes literature and poetry by and about Italian and Italian/American authors. Many of our titles are consistently utilized in university courses...
L`Italia non mi ha voluto negli Usa batto il cancro
Sono ore febbrili nel laboratorio di Antonio Iavarone alla Columbia University Medical School. Ha fatto il giro del mondo la notizia pubblicata da Nature Genetics che l'équipe guidata dal professore italiano ha realizzato una mappatura genetica completa del tumore al cervello, aprendo la strada alle terapie personalizzate. Un annuncio in g...
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Scientist Recognized by American-Italian Cancer Foundation
Charles J. Sherr, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Tumor Cell Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been selected to receive the 2013 Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine by the American-Italian Cancer Foundation.The Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine recognizes...