Petition by Silvano D. Orsi -- Little Italy Neighborhood Association. To be delivered to Mark Assini, Gates Town Supervisor, Lovely Warren, Mayor of Rochester, NY, The New York State House, The New York State Senate, and Governor Andrew Cuomo.   Let's collaborate as a community and take bi-partisan action together in 2016, to officially...

Monday, February 22, 2016, 6pm - John D Calandra Italian American Institute (CUNY) - 25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY. Il Ballo dei Giganti di Nola (2015), 90 min., Antonio Iorio, dir.   For centuries the Feast of the Gigli has been celebrated in Nola, near Naples, every June in honor of Saint Paulinus. The feast features the "d...

di Maurita Cardone   Quando si dice teatro italiano a New York si dice Mario Fratti. Noto alle scene newyorchesi fin dagli anni '60, il commediografo di origini aquilane, autore di più di 90 opere, oltre che columnist de La Voce, scrive ormai quasi esclusivamente in inglese (una lingua di cui non fa che elogiare ricchezza e libertà), ma ha c...

Citing powerful new price points, a strong repeat traveler factor and a diverse product portfolio, the Globus family of brands is predicting that Italy will see a resurgence in 2014. "Italy is a rare destination; one that offers an immense amount of diversity from Cinque Terre and Sicily to Rome and Lake Maggiore. It's a place travelers can visit...

By Paul Stephen If you've felt out of sorts since "Italian food" started meaning tapas-style plates of broccoli rabe with a balsamic reduction instead of grapefruit-sized meatballs or zesty sausage and peppers on a jumbo platter, it looks like your bout of uncertainty is coming to an end.   A new wave of restaurants is reviving what many di...

Pasquale Lubrano, a Plainview resident, emigrated from Italy to the United States in 1957, he was seeking the American dream.   He realized his dream in 1980 when he opened La Bussola Ristorante, a restaurant in Glen Cove. As business grew, he opened additional locations in Huntington and Mineola, and his four sons joined the family restaura...

di Liliana Rosano   Il mondo del vino entra nella sua vita per un senso di colpa. Il ricordo della vigna del padre, nella zona del Chianti, ha accompagnato la sua infanzia e adolescenza. Delle giornate trascorse insieme al papà e al rito autunnale del vino, le rimane un profumo indelebile. E pensare che lei il vino non lo beveva proprio. Ex...

Jehovah's Witnesses are inviting all of their neighbors to attend their annual convention in the Italian language to be held at Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 23 Unity Pl, Newburgh NY, 12550-6715. The theme of this year's program is "Keep Seeking First God's Kingdom!" Raffaele Palazzolo, a convention spokesman, states: "People of many faith...

Le iniziative per celebrare il Centenario della nascita di Alberto Burri (1915 – 2015) arrivano oltreoceano. Il 15 ottobre 2015 aprirà infatti al Solomon Guggenheim Museum di New York la mostra antologica retrospettiva delle opere di Alberto Burri, a cura di Emily Braun.   La mostra, con oltre cento opere, è la più ampia ed esauriente mai re...

Italian music for guitar from the 19th century the Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini's guitar A concert by Marco Battaglia who will play a 19th century guitar once belonged to Italian Patriot Giuseppe Mazzini. Marco Battaglia was born in 1969 in Milan (Italy) where his high school studies were concentrated in the classics and afterwards he studied l...