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by Anthony J. Tamburri This past summer New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio returned to his maternal family roots in Italy. The Mayor's grandparents immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s: his grandmother Anna Briganti was from Grassano (Basilicata, Matera Province), and his grandfather Giovanni De Blasio from the town of Sant'Agata de'...

di Chiara Barbo   Film Forum, istituzione cinematografica tra le più prestigiose a New York e negli Stati Uniti, rende omaggio al grande Mario Monicelli. Non solo Neorealismo, possiamo finalmente dire. Sì perché spesso Neorealismo è sinonimo stesso di cinema italiano, di una stagione meravigliosa e lontana del nostro cinema: un cinema i...

April 8, 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor - New York, N.Y. 10036 Italian Scientific Migration to the United States after the 1938 Racial Laws Alessandra Gissi, University of Naples "L'Orientale"   The Fascist government's 1938 anti-Semitic Racial Laws prompted a major...

09 SEPTEMBER 2015 / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMRSVP REQUIRED! BOOK NOW!Center for Italian Modern Art - 421 BROOME STREET, 4TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10013 Following his 2014 visit when he spoke about the puppet theatre of Futurist artist Fortunato Depero, Dan Hurlin returns to CIMA to read his translation of DRAMMA PLASTICO FUTURISTA, four short puppet pla...

March 30 (Wednesday) 6:00 - 9:30 pm. Elebash Recital Hall. The Graduate Center, CUNY - 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), Manhattan. RSVP: 212-642-2094. Seating is limited and is first come first served. Photo ID required. [email protected] - www.qc.edu/calandra Montedoro, tells the story of an American woman...

Monday, April 11, 2016 at 6:00 pm Organized by : IIC in collaboration with : European Institute of Columbia University Entrance : Free. Book now! Location:italian Cultural Institute   Originally published in Italian in 1980, Gli Stati Uniti e il Fascismo: Alle origini dell'egemonia Americana in Italia, is regarded. today. as a crucia...

Monday, April 25, 2016 at 6:00 pm. Organized by IIC. Entrance : Free. Book now! Italian Cultural Institute of New York. 686 Park Avenue. New York, NY 10021 - USA   A darkly humorous exploration of the human body and its various functions in poetic prose, Valerio Magrelli's personal chronicle of clinical experien...

By John Alexander   On June 14, hundreds of guests gathered at the Dyker Beach Golf Club to celebrate Mary Crisalli Sansone's 100th birthday. In attendance were dignitaries, elected officials, such as Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and family members. Also present were Sansone's close friends, including Matilda...

Amid the Italian fare typical of the Endicott restaurant scene, Sakura Japanese Restaurant is the only Japanese offering out of the 14 participating restaurants in Endicott Restaurant Week. "I think it's a good way to introduce Asian food," Sakura Japanese Restaurant waitress and Vestal resident Hailie Kim, 24, said of restaurant week.  ...

Date: from Friday, December 02, 2016 to Thursday, January 19, 2017 Time: From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm In collaboration with : FIAC and Pinacoteca di Brera Entrance : Free Location:Italian Cultural Institute of New York Book now!   Guido Cagnacci (1601–1663) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, whose works are characterized by the us...

The NoMad hotel has always been one of my favorite spots to hang out so long as the crowd situation doesn't get out of control. The NoMad restaurant has long been one of my favorite restaurants in the city, and I have really loved the cocktail offerings from the Nomad Bar adjacent to the restaurant (it's too bad that the library bar, which is...

A MANHATTAN, 60 KM — Dopo le due prove del 2012 (California e Florida), quest'anno sono in programma ben cinque Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia, a cura di Rcs Sport, il settore organizzativo della Gazzetta. Con le maglie rosa firmate Santini e il Trofeo Senza Fine, che spetta al vincitore della corsa Gazzetta. Il clou, inutile nasconderlo, è lo sbarco a N...