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Most Italian immigrants and the businesses they started have long left Little Italy, but the Italian American Museum is expanding its footprint downtown to make sure they are not forgotten. Led by its president, Joseph Scelsa, the museum in February closed on a deal to sell its three contiguous 3-story buildings on Grand Street to Nexus Building De...

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American Italian Heritage Association and Museum - 1227 Central Avenue, Albany, New York 12205. Exhibit opens today and installation will remain through the end of May. The Museum is open: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays from 11 am to 2 pm; Saturdays and Sundays, 1 pm – 4 pm. The grandchildren of Julius Pardi, an Italian born artist (1884-1961), pre...

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April 21 (Saturday) 1:30 pm New York Cannoli Crawl. Join Allison Scola for a 3-hour afternoon walking tour through Greenwich Village, SoHo, and Little Italy, that features Sicilian food and Italian-American New York City history. Allison, owner and curator of Experience Sicily, a boutique tourism company, will share her knowledge about "cannoli", t...

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Comical and despairing, mesmerizing and grotesque. Italian artist Federico Solmi uses satirical video installations to present a dystopian vision of our present-day society. "The Good Samaritans," Solmi’s exhibition at Rochester Contemporary Art Center, opens Friday, April 6. “I consider myself a storyteller,” says the 44-year-old self-educated art...

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When you leave your homeland with almost nothing, for a land you don't know, where people you don't know speak a language you don't know, the shock is almost unbearable. That's what happened to millions of Italians during the mass emigration period. The studies about Italian American dialects and how our fellow Italians adapted their way to speak t...

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Benny Cannavo hears it all the time. "Hey Benny, you played my wedding 42 years ago," a guy will say. "Benny! Remember when you played on my wedding day in 1968?" a woman will ask. Cannavo can't remember all of them, but he'll smile anyway. For about 50 years, the 87-year-old Schenectady resident brought his crew - "Benny Cannavo and the Accents" -...

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Kairos Italy Theater and KIT Italia announce The Winner of the 2018 Mario Fratti Award for Excellence in Italian Playwriting goes to The City Rises (La citta' che sale) by Chiara Boscaro & Marco Di Stefano. The co-winners will receive a translation of their work into English as part of the MFA Collection and a reading at the Italian Institute that...

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Andrew (Andy) Balducci — the man responsible for pioneering a now-popular specialty grocer model in New York — has died at 92. Balducci and his father ran a 24/7 Greenwich Village fruit stand together called Balducci’s, and Balducci is credited with growing that stand into a much larger specialty food store that housed a fishmonger, a cheese displa...

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Monday, April 16, 2018. From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm. Entrance: Free. Italian Cultural Institute of New York - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065. Book Now The James Webb Space Telescope - New Horizons in Science and Technology is a presentation by Dr. Giuseppe Cataldo that provides an overview of the project, the scientific and technological challeng...

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Adding to the excitement of the New York International Auto Show, Popular Mechanics announced that the 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio has been named "Crossover of the Year" in the magazine's annual Automotive Excellence Awards. To choose their car awards, editors drive all of the relevant class contenders over the course of the year, then pick the vehicle...

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