Onondaga Historical Association seeking photos, artifacts for Italian heritage exhibit
By Rick Moriarty The Onondaga Historical Association is looking for old photos and artifacts for an upcoming exhibit on the Italian heritage of Syracuse. The exhibit will be displayed in the association's second-floor gallery at 321 Montgomery St. from Sept. 12 through March 16. Dennis Connors, the association's curator of history, said i...
Taste of Italy Dinner To Benefit Specialty School
It was a night of Italian food as Hope Hall School hosted a fundraiser to benefit its School Scholarship Program. The second annual Taste of Italy dinner benefit was held at the Italian-American Sports Club.Participants paid $40to enjoy Italian cuisine like eggplant parmesan and chicken marsala. A chinese raffle, 50/50 drawing and Italian...
Historic exhibition of St. Francis of Assisi manuscripts coming to Brooklyn Borough Hall
By Mary Frost Historic 12th and 13th century manuscripts relating to St. Francis of Assisi are going on display starting Dec. 17 at Brooklyn Borough Hall, Borough President Eric Adams announced on Wednesday. "Friar Francis: Traces, Words and Images," is the biggest exhibition ever to be held at Borough Hall, and organizers expect it to be...
A lecture by Federica Pedriali: "Deconstructing Rome" - March 05, 2015 at 6:00 pm
This presentation uses Paolo Sorrentino's La grande bellezza (2013) and Rosi's Sacro Gra (2013) to frame a selective deconstruction of the Eternal City. Paragraphs include Genius of Rome (broadly based on a long view of the city's primary logistics: place and time), Grand Narratives (focusing on an evolving Roman mythology driven by polari...
EPPUR SI MUOVE: Panel Discussion: THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SUCCESS: Do We Have to Leave Italy?
APRIL 29, 2015 (06:00 PM) Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 Eppur si muove / And Yet It Moves is a series dedicated to Italians in and outside of Italy who give us hope for the future. Books in comparison:The Country where Anything is Possible and Far from Us A conversation with the author...
Zeppieri & Sons wins WABC pastry contest
by Jaime Williams A local bakery recently won the title of 'Best Pastries' in the tri-state area during WABC radio's annual contest. Zeppieri & Sons Italian Bakery, a Pelham Bay institution, received the most votes in the online contest this spring. "It was a really good feeling," said owner Carmine Zeppieri Jr. about the...
Celebrated Italian Designer Domenico Vacca To Open Complete Luxury Lifestyle Destination In Midtown Manhattan
Marking the first time that a fashion icon has expanded his portfolio into a comprehensive branded luxury lifestyle destination, designer Domenico Vacca has announced the $20m renovation of The Domenico Vacca opening September 2015. The impressive 12-story luxury space, located on 55th Street just off Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, wil...
Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap
by Roberta Smith Alberto Burri's prescient paintings — in patched, burned and otherwise abused burlap, plastic or wood — form a lavish, beautiful and admirable, if sometimes monotonous retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. It presents an artist who is impressive less for the profundity of his work than for his consistency and his ideas,...
Italy Invades: How Italians Conquered the World at the Italian American Museum
The Italian American Museum presents: ITALY INVADES. How Italians Conquered the World. Thursday, June 16th, 6:30 P.M. Book Reading and Signing by Christopher Kelly. Light refreshments will be served About the Book: Recreating their success with America Invades, Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock take another...
This coffee shop is more like a time capsule
By John Crudele It's definitely not Starbucks. In fact, the first impression you might get of Caffe Reggio, the Greenwich Village coffee house — yes, with two "f"s — is that its name could be Nobucks. It's cramped, very old and dark. And the bathroom! Well, you are better off waiting until you get home. "Old World quaint" i...
Full-gallery installation depicts immigrant American household
BATAVIA — When Thomas MacPherson looks at an empty gallery he doesn't see blank walls.He sees a dining room table covered in linen, set with antique china awaiting a Sunday dinner. Or maybe, his grandmother's bedroom arranged with period furniture. And in another area, he's likely to find a living room with a sofa, love seat or the La-Z-Boy recline...
Italy-USA: Terzi opens Piero della Francesca exhibition in New York
New York 05 March 2013Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has opened an exhibition entitled "'Piero della Francesca in America" at the Frick Collection in New York. The event came at the end of his two day-visit to the city, during which he met the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the General Assembly, Vuk Jeremi...