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Arrivarono in California per cercare l'oro e lo trovarono, ma era l'oro della terra del Golden State dove gli italiani fecero fortuna come agricoltori, pescatori, viticultori. Un documentario racconta le loro storie e la loro identità culturale, ieri e oggi In questo documentario del 2013 Gianfranco Norelli e Suma Kurien raccontano degli immigrati...

The Winter Garden Theatre is ready to rumble! Rocky, a new musical featuring music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and a book by Thomas Meehan and Sylvester Stallone, is bringing the Eye of the Tiger to Broadway.   To celebrate the official opening night of Rocky, Broadway.com resident artist Justin "Squigs" Robertson sketched thi...

Jazz, folk, blues and swing notes will entertain you all night while the chef serves up some delicious and authentic Italian food.   Olivia Foschi's Italian Swing Trio, led by the talented Italian-American singer Olivia Foschi will play a live jazz session. Olivia Foschi has become an iconic voice in the New York jazz scene. Her debut album...

A friend to the NYC Columbia Association for many years, Tony LoBianco is a Great Performer. His latest show, The Little Flower is an educational, inspirational and comedic one-man show, set in the 1945 City Hall office of Fiorello H. La Guardia, during his final day as three-term mayor of New York City.   The Little Flower presents a h...

Andrea Bargnani has had an interesting career so far in the NBA. A seven-footer with a repertoire of skills on the offensive end, he was picked first overall in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Toronto Raptors. Before the 2013-14 season, the New York Knicks acquired the Italian for a group of players, two second-round picks and their 2016 first-rounder....

February 22nd, 06:00 pm - 07:30 pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - 25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY 10036. Il Ballo dei Giganti di Nola (2015), 90 min. Antonio Iorio, dir.   For centuries the Feast of the Gigli has been celebrated in Nola, near Naples, every June in honor of Saint Paulinus. The feast features...

Chelsea Music FestivalTuesday, June 18, 2013 from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)New York, NY CMF 2013 presents this Chelsea Outbursts concert and special evening at The Italian Academy at Columbia University that celebrates 400 years of music from Italy and Britain. Highlights include a Corelli Concerto Grosso, an oboe concerto by Corelli's great admir...

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Hours: 6PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute686 Park AvenueNew York, NY 10065 Organized by: ICI The exhibition will present Italian string instruments coming from four different cities, and made from the 17th to the 20th century. In particular, the only surviving violin made by Giovanni Pietro Caspani in 1657 will...

December 8 (Tuesday) 8:00 pm. Alessandra Belloni Artistic Director & I Giullari di Piazza, Italian Folk Music, Theater and Dance. A special fund raiser in honor of I Giullari di Piazza's 35th Anniversary. Presenting by popular demand excerpts from "LA CANTATA DEI PASTORI" A Neapolitan Renaissance Christmas concert featuring: La Befana...

Metti una sera all'ora dell'aperitivo, in uno di quei posti che sembrano poter esistere solo a New York, anzi solo a Chelsea, il quartiere dove tutto accade: un'ex fabbrica del 1913 riadattata a mille cose, dallo spazio di co-working al bar con birre artigianali e soprattutto a luogo di eventi legati alla moda, al design e all'arte, grazie a un'atm...

Chi tra i giovani registi italiani non ha sognato di volare nella Grande Mela per far conoscere i propri lavori a critici ed esperti cinematografici a stelle e strisce? La possibilità di farlo arriva dall'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York che, per il secondo anno, ha indetto il premio "Giovani Registi Italiani". Il concorso, suddiviso in q...

by Dylan Butler   It was 30 minutes of brilliance, according to NYCFC forward David Villa. That was the Spaniard's assessment of Andrea Pirlo's Major League Soccer debut in a 5-3 win over Orlando City at Yankee Stadium Sunday. "He just got here on Tuesday and look at what he did in a half-an-hour," Villa said through a translator....