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by Jeannine Guilyard   The Museum of Modern Art's current film series "Antonio Pietrangeli: A Retrospective" is in its final days, so if you're in New York City this week, it's still not too late to catch one of these Italian classics on the big screen. Born in Rome, Pietrangeli first studied medicine but fate took over when he assisted...

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By Alicia Kort The tale of this young boy's life in the Bronx has been presented in many forms: An autobiographical one-man show, a critically-acclaimed 1993 film and now, a Broadway musical.   Although this musical isn't particularly groundbreaking, it's fun, which sometimes Broadway musicals just need to be. Aptly promoted as a mix betwee...

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Maestro Stefano Miceli, one of Italy's and the musical world's leading conductors and pianists presented his latest initiative "The Art of the Italian Sonata" during a four day whirl wind tour of New York, under the auspices of the Harvard Club of New York and the Italian Academy Foundation, Inc.Maestro Miceli, who is best known as a conductor and...

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NEW YORK- Complimenti vivissimi a Giorgio Armani, che si è assicurato una bellissima vista sull'High Line. Il maestro della moda, l'unico italiano che ha venduto cashemere al mondo intero, indossando sempre e solo una maglia nera, ha infatti preso in affitto uno degli edifici più prestigiosi lungo l'High Line.

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Boys' & Girls' Towns of Italy a non-profit that empowers war refugee, migrant, and at-risk youth living on the streets of Italy, is thrilled to announce that it raised over $600,000 at its 68th Annual Spring Ball on Thursday, April 11th, 2013 at The Pierre Hotel. The funds will be used for BGTI's innovative youth development program where young...

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An actual person answers the phone at Carbone and tells you that they book tables 30 days out. The person is even affable. This is notable because Carbone, on the premises of an old Italian-American joint named Rocco's in Greenwich Village, is easily the hottest restaurant of the moment in New York and getting a reservation is only slightly less di...

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By Giovanni di Napoli   Saturday, I made my way to Corona, Queens for the 6th Annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, an intimate celebration with plenty of delicious food, fun games and live entertainment. Warmly welcomed, I met many good-hearted and friendly people. I especially enjoyed talking to some of the older participants who glowi...

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Among the items raised on Sunday at a festival in East Harlem — aside, of course, from the giglio, an 83-foot-tall wooden tower built in honor of St. Anthony of Padua — was a question of moral geography: Do New Yorkers actually have to live in a neighborhood to claim it as their own? The overwhelming answer, at least according to the members of th...

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The Confederation of Italian Entrepreneurs Worldwide (CIIM) and Mismaonda invite you to a fundraising dinner to support Ferite a Morte (Wounded to Death), a project that aims to sensitize people and institutions about violence against women. Proceeds from this event will go towards funding a future reading of this work at the United Nations. Seren...

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La Puglia Center of America è felice di annunciare che il prossimo 13 Marzo 2014, presso il ristorante Etcetera Etcetera di Manhattan, si terrà la quarta edizione del Puglia's Italy Award of Excellence in America". Il Puglia Center of America award è riconosciuto a personalità nate od originarie della Puglia, che attraverso la loro carriera hanno...

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