Columbia-Greene Italian Festival planned for Aug. 1 in Hudson
The Sons & Daughters of Italy will present the Columbia-Greene County Italian Festival from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1 in Hudson. Admission and parking are free. The festival will feature live entertainment with Johnny Cassera of the Route 66 Band performing from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Food vendors will offer cannoli, fried doug...
A Sweet Celebration of Easter Season Treats
Even before Valentine's Day, our local grocery installed an imposing wall of Easter candies: foil-wrapped Cadbury Creme eggs; Peeps in impossible shades of yellow, pink and blue; speckled malted milk balls made to mimic robins' eggs — all the makings of an industrial sugar swoon. For Eastertide treats with a more personal touch, I visited...
Cephalonia by Luigi Ballerini
Wednesday, April 20, 2016. From 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Organized by : ICI. Entrance : Free. Book Now Book Presentation: Cephalonia, by Luigi Ballerini, translated from the Italian by Evgenia Matt, published by The Brooklyn Rail (2016). The author will talk about his work with Tom Huhn (School of Visual Arts). Cephalon...
PATRIZIA GUARNIERI Book Presentation
When: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm Where: Italian Cultural Institute of New York, 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 1002 Entrance : Free Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism, From Florence to Jerusalem and New York, by Patrizia GuarnIeri. With the participation of Guido Calabresi. Fascism and the r...
A Meatball-Serving Political Godmother in Brooklyn Celebrates a Century
In 2009, Bill de Blasio and Mark Green, both Democrats running for public advocate, were asked to name the most interesting New Yorker they knew. Mr. Green paused a moment, then singled out John Sexton, the erudite Jesuit-trained magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, best-s...
Intervista ad Anthony Julien Tamburri, direttore del John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
Di Emanuele Pettener, apparsa "Sul Romanzo" l'11 febbraio 2013 Anthony Julian Tamburri dirige a New York il John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, il più importante centro di studi italoamericani negli Stati Uniti. Cavaliere della Repubblica per meriti culturali, è autore di innumerevoli articoli e di undici libri, fra cui Of Saltimb...
#ITandUS: DIREZIONE WALL STREET
"E visto che ci stai già pensando, pensa in grande. Niente e nessuno possono impedirti di farlo" Wall Street - 1987 E' il pensiero che meglio riassume la nostra esperienza con ItaliaCamp: nati in un sottoscala universitario, cresciuti tra: Ascoli, Lecce, Catanzaro, Milano, Napoli e Verona, passando poi in tutte le regioni d'Italia p...
Max Pellegrini, l'artista solitario arriva a New York
Mercoledì 15 gennaio 2014 si è inaugurata la mostra Una narrazione - Max Pellegrini e Italo Cremona presso l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York. L'evento newyorchese prosegue il percorso iniziato con la mostra Surprise presso la GAM di Torino, visibile fino al 26 gennaio, dedicata ai primi lavori di Pellegrini durante gli anni settanta. All'...
Bill de Blasio e il ritorno alle origini col sindaco di Airola
By Vincenzo Pascale Venerdì pomeriggio di forti emozioni per la nutrita delegazione italiana arrivata a City Hall per salutare il sindaco di New York Bill de Blasio. Il sindaco di Airola, Michele Napoletano, piccolo centro della Valle Caudina, Benevento, distante solo sette kilometri dalla ormai famosa Sant'Agata dei Goti, paesino dal quale oltre...
Queens man reunites with long-lost sister from Italy after being separated at birth
Life changed forever last week for a Fresh Meadows man who was reunited with his sister from Italy, from whom he was separated at birth. It sounds like a movie, but thanks to the efforts of a former Pentagon intelligence analyst who dabbles in genealogy, Peter Hart is now getting to know the older sister he thought he'd never meet."I'm totally in...
Awardwinning Italian tenor Micheal Castaldo and The Scarsdale Strings to perform “An Italian Christmas Journey” at the White Plains Performing Arts Center, White Plains, NY on Monday, Dec 22nd
"An Italian Christmas Journey," a traditional Christmas concert featuring award‐winning Italian tenor Micheal Castaldo will take place on Monday December 22, 2014 at 7:30p.m. at The White Plains Performing Arts Center 11 City Place, 3rd Floor, White Plains, NY 10601. Castaldo will perform classic Christmas carols from his chart topping b...
Festival of Songs USA. Il trionfo di Ckristina Shafranski
Si è svolta domenica scorsa, presso El Caribe Country Club di Brooklyn, la 20esima edizione del "Festival of Songs USA" organizzato dalla conduttrice radiofonica di ICN radio, Silvana Romania. Come sempre, la sala era pienissima, con i partecipanti che hanno assistito ad uno spettacolo che ha regalato emozioni e divertito tutti i presenti. ...