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Kitty Genovese's screams for help couldn't save her on the night she was murdered outside her apartment in 1964. Fifty years later, those screams still echo, a symbol of urban breakdown and city dwellers' seeming callousness toward their neighbors. The case "caught the spirit of the time," said Thomas Reppetto, a police historian. "It seemed t...

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You are cordially invited to attend a special presentation by Fiorella DiCarlo RD, CDN titled, The Health Benefits of Eating Italian Style at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, May 29.   Fiorella is a Registered Dietitian in private practice in New York City and born in Naples, Italy. She is also founder of a food blog called Fiorella...

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by Sara Tracey   When Mary Spinelli started attending the local St. Anthony of Padua Italian Feast Days 80 years ago, she remembers food being a humble addition to the festivities. Baskets of goodies and wine were carted to the Buffalo Street shrine of the patron saint of Spinelli's parish. Lamb spiedies were roasted over coals.   Th...

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For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. The lives of these Italian women are woven into the artifacts of memory and imagination: embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlew...

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Date: Thursday, January 22, 2015; Hours: 6PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065 Organized by: ICI In this exhibition Marco Paoli presents large black and white photographs from his collection Silenzio (Silence) and from his forthcoming monograph Ethiopia. The works take as raw material th...

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Il Gala Italia compie 30 anni con una rassegna al Pierre Hotel che racconta lo straordinario successo del vino italiano che negli ultimi tre decenni ha visto passare le proprie esportazioni da 44 milioni di dollari ad oltre un miliardo e trecento milioni. Organizzato dall'Italian Wine & Food Institute diretto da Lucio Caputo sotto l'alto patro...

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  The last time we wrote about Rocco Deserto, his wedding party had just been photobombed by a giant plume of smoke.   Most of the time, Deserto’s life is not that eventful. The Xaverian High School alum and proud six-time college dropout spends his the bulk of days at a boring office job in Manhattan, and evenings with...

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By Sara Ventiera   Andrew LoPresto grew up in the restaurant industry; both his father and grandfather were bread bakers most of their lives. Following in their footsteps, LoPresto made a career out of cooking himself, working at respected eateries such as Le Madri, Ovest, and Blue Duck Tavern.   Later this month, LoPresto is finally...

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Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 - November 6, 2015 - 06:30 PMPart of the New Literature from Europe Festival: Me and You [Io e te] (2012, 103 min.). In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles - Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - Based on the novel by Niccolò Ammaniti. Followed by a convers...

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di Claudio Moschin   Si dice che nessuna città al mondo possa competere con New York quanto a street food, il cibo venduto per strada, grazie a centinaia di piccoli e grandi furgoni, posizionati ogni giorno nei diversi quartieri cittadini, davanti a uffici, banche, studi di avvocati, ospedali, scuole. Dunque, se è vero che la metropoli ameri...

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