“Five or six years ago, more than 50 percent of American consumers believed that truffles were a chocolate dessert and they didn’t know that they are also and above all something else; now they know it” Vittorio Giordano, vice-president of Urbani Truffles, international branch of the historical pocket multinational truffle Umbrian, amuses the audie...

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Garibaldi-Meucci Museum | 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305. Members: $5; Non-Members: $15. Join NOIAW member and native Staten Islander Dawn Marie Hayes, Associate Professor of European History at Montclair State University, for a presentation of the land of many of our forebears. Learn abo...

Tuesday, November 14 at 6:00pm - Calandra Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York. This symposium will discuss the notion of cultural heritage and its relevance to today's concept of Italian identity. Questions to be addressed include: How does one negotiate his/her knowledge of the past with today? How does a member of subsequent gene...

On November 1 and 2, the Italian Business & Investment Initiative and Italy’s weekly business magazine, Panorama, will launch the inaugural Italian and American Excellence awards, recognizing the cultural, business and societal contributions of Italians and Italian-Americans. The recipients include: Bill De Blasio, Mayor of New York; tenor Vittorio...

Performing a renewed Christmas show, Giada Valenti is very excited to come back soon to New York City for three concerts at the beautiful Loreto Theater at the Archbishop Sheen Center. Giada will entertain the audience with most of the fan-favorites, but will also sing several songs that you never heard from her. In her show, Giada will take you on...

Nick Albanese, along with Last Sicilian Productions Announces that the One-Man Play, THE LAST SICILIAN will be heading to Off-Broadway in NYC! The Last Sicilian is an evening of true stories from Actor/Writer Nick Albanese. Stories about his childhood years spent in his family's bakery, how generations of his relatives met, married and overcame muc...

Anche l’Associazione degli educatori italoamericani (AIAE) ha celebrato la 17 edizione della settimana della lingua italiana con il tema quest’anno dedicato al “Cinema e Teatro”. “A cena con le stelle” il titolo dell’evento organizzato dalla Presidente dell’Associazione, Josephine Maietta, che ha avuto come ospite d’onore Tony lo Bianco, attore e p...

A Saint Jerome and a Saint Agatha by Paolo Veronese have since Thursday been sharing a New York City roof with two other monumental paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist.Recently restored, the two large paintings with elaborate gilded frames had never before left Italy and will be exhibited at the Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue. "Veronese i...

In the United States, Italy is still a country with lots of “parts unknown“. To contribute filling this gap, the Italian magazine Panorama together with the Italian Business & Investment Initiative have decided to organize a three-day event dedicated to the discovery and celebration of Italian excellence. Food & Wine, business, fashion, energy, ser...

Essere abilitati alla professione medica sia in Italia sia negli Stati Uniti non è da tutti. Fabiana Perna è nata a Napoli nel 1980, dove si è laureata in medicina all’Università Federico II e ha cominciato la specializzazione in ematologia. Ora "top ricercatrice" campana è in finale agli Issnaf Award, il riconoscimento messo in palio dalla fondazi...