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Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) students, faculty and staff filled Richard Harris Terrace on Monday, October 26, for a day of live music, poetry and special lectures, all part of BMCC's Italian Heritage Month celebration.    The event's organizer, BMCC Modern Languages Professor John T. Means said in the spirit of cel...

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Cresce il MAIE negli Stati Uniti. Augusto Sorriso, Coordinatore USA del Movimento Associativo Italiani all'Estero, ha annunciato nelle scorse ore la nomina ufficiale di Luca Di Giacomo a Coordinatore MAIE New York. "Luca Di Giacomo, membro del nuovo Comites di New York, è un brillante giovane italoamericano impegnato nel sociale", spiega Sorriso....

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Si apre all'insegna degli Usa il 2013 della promozione internazionale del vino italiano. E non poteva essere altrimenti, visto che gli States sono, ad oggi, il mercato più importante per i produttori del Belpaese. Che vogliono confermare il primato dell'Italia tra i Paesi esportatori in volume e valori, ancora saldamente nelle loro mani nonostante...

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It's been called the "missing link" among Giuseppe Verdi's operas, composed right after his three mid-career mega-hits — "Rigoletto," ''Il Trovatore" and "La Traviata" — and pointing the way toward the masterpieces of his later years.   Why "missing"? It's not as if "Les vepres siciliennes" ("The Sicilian Vespers"), first performed in Paris...

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Montegiordano: An Italian artist has dismantled a church in southern Italy to rebuild it at the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York, ruffling feathers among heritage authorities. The pretty church in the small village of Montegiordano in Calabria, built at the end of the 19th century and later desecrated, has been carefully taken apart and...

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The Italian Trade Commission is delighted to collaborate this year on The International Day of Italian Cuisine! WHAT IS IT THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ITALIAN CUISINE EXACTLY?   It is the celebration of a traditional dish but also the promotion of Italian Culinary Culture. The International Day of Italian Cuisine/IDIC materialized as a rea...

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by Megan McCaffrey   If you've ever eaten in the Little Italy section of the Bronx on Arthur Avenue, chances are you've enjoyed some of Roberto Paciullo's cooking. His specialty? Well-executed Southern Italian classics, served family-style. Pacuilo, who owns Roberto's and Zero Otto Nove, an iconic pizzeria with a second location in...

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Friday, January 30, 2015, 7-9pmPrivate Residence - Ward Hill, Staten IslandMembers: $45 | Non-Members: $55. Spaces are limited. Gentlemen are always welcome. Click here to register for this event. Please be advised that ticket sales are final for all NOIAW events. We regret that we are unable to offer refunds for cancellati...

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Quella di Sante Fortunato Vanni, arrivato dalla Sicilia a New York nel 1884 per aprire una libreria, con annessa stamperia, è una storia d'altri tempi.   L'immigrazione italiana era al culmine, New York era fatta di gang, avventurieri, mendicanti, uomini d'affari con e senza scrupoli, e di tanti uomini e donne che, come Vanni, avevano un sog...

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APRIL 16, 2015 (06:00 PM) Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011Book Presentation - Machiavelli: A Portrait (Harvard University Press, 2015) by Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University   "Machiavellian"—used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless—is never m...

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