La Traviata - With full Orchestra
Nov. 18, 19, 25, 26 (Saturdays and Sundays) 3:00 pm. La Traviata - With full Orchestra. Our Lady of Perpetual Help. 5902 6th Avenue, Brooklyn. Admission: $25; $20 seniors; $5 teens; open to the public. Contact: Fran Garber-Cohen 718-259-2772. [email protected] www.reginaopera.org Enjoy a fully staged performance of Verdi's tragedy La Traviata....
‘Acquiring Italian Records’ program offered by Genealogical Society
On Nov. 4, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. the Orange County Genealogical Society will be offering a program on “Acquiring Italian Records.” This program will be presented by Toni McKeen. The program will be held at the Goshen United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 115 Main Street in Goshen, (next door to the 1841 Historic Courthouse). McKeen will walk visito...
Second Week of Italian Cuisine in San Francisco
With the goal of promoting Italian culinary traditions and food-and-wine connoisseurship as a distinctive trait of Italian identity and culture, the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World reaches its second edition, which will take place in San Francisco and the Bay Area November 13-19, 2017. The concept of the initiative is based on a few key points...
So Italian food can be strengthened in America
“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...
The Formidable Kingdom in the Sun
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...
Comic Sebastian Maniscalco, in Phoenix 11/4: Don't you wish you were him?
Entertainers, if they’re lucky, get to enjoy a moment in which everything seems to be going their way. In the midst of such a moment: Sebastian Maniscalco. Just look at what's been happening. In the past two years, the fast-talking funnyman has made four movies. He headlined his third Showtime special. He's playing bigger venues; he just booked a s...
Eataly Finally Debuts at Westfield Century City
Eataly, the missing piece of the shopping center revamp at Westfield Century City, is taking a bow on Nov. 3. This array of restaurants that highlights the Italian eating experience will be the first such food complex on the West Coast. There are already U.S. locations in New York City, Boston, Chicago and soon Las Vegas. The 60,000-square-foot spa...
Italian-American Researchers Present Mediterranean Diet, Health, and Longevity at Annual Medical Conference
The Sbarro Health Research Organization, Inc., in collaboration with the National Italian American Foundation, Temple University’s College of Science and Technology and the Giovan Giacomo Giordano Foundation, also thanks to the kind unconditioned sponsorship of Pastificio di Martino, will organize a medical conference discussing diet and nutrition....
Symposium: Cultural Heritage Memory Negotiating the Past in Order to Build on the Future
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...
Bartolotta unveils renovated Italian Community Center
One year after taking over the catering and restaurant operations at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward neighborhood, Bartolotta Restaurant Group unveiled the changes. Bartolotta fully renovated the interior of the ICC, repainting the walls in various shades of grey, replacing the carpeting and lighting and updating the...
Inaugural Italian and American Excellence Awards to be given out in New York this week
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...
All Souls Day in Sicily
The 1st of November is a national holiday in Italy, known as Tutti i Santi or Ognissanti, which celebrates all saints and is followed by All Souls Day on the 2nd of November, a day devoted to honor loved ones who have passed away. Il Giorno dei Morti begins at dawn with a somber Mass for the dead, offering prayers and alms for the deceased. After M...