New York City June 6th – 8th, 2022 Multipli Forti: Voices from Contemporary Italian Literature An initiative for the promotion of Italian literatureAn annual event to strengthen literary exchanges between Italy and the United States. The first edition of the Italian Literary Fiction Festival will take place from June 6thContinue Reading
Image: Apollo Theater Tyler Perry to receive the Impact Award presented by Whoopi Goldberg Hosted by SNL’s Kenan Thompson Musical performance by The Roots with special appearances by Stephanie Mills, Kamasi Washington, Ogi, and more to be announced LionTree to Receive Corporate Award Monday, June 13 at 7:00PM ET, in-personContinue Reading
ChamberQUEER Pride Festival Part of The Future Is… Festival Friday, June 10, 6pm Doors / 7pm Show Sunday, June 12, 5pm Doors / 6pm Show $25 in Advance, $29 Day of Show ChamberQUEER is a multifaceted organization with the mission of highlighting historically underrepresented queer figures in western classical music and providing anContinue Reading
Bridge Rockaway in Brownsville Will Offer 174 Affordable Homes with 87 Units Reserved for Seniors and Veterans Experiencing Homelessness Mixed-Use Development Will Include Light Manufacturing Space Operated by the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center, Creating Up to 35 Jobs Part of Governor’s $25 Billion, Five-Year, Comprehensive Housing Plan Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the startContinue Reading
Photo: NYC Parks Parks and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been partners on this project since its inception, and this year is no different. The critical resiliency work being done in the Rockaways will protect the local residents in the surrounding community from the increasing impacts of theContinue Reading
Professional and Graduate Student Prizes Awarded for 2022 The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum sponsors biennial prizes for recent scholarship on the history of the postal system in the United States and its territories and their antecedents. The U.S. Postal Service started these awards in 2007 to honor its first historian,Continue Reading
Christina Michelon. Christina Michelon is the recipient of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for her article “The In/Visibility of Mourning: Seeing Labor, Loss and Enslavement in an Antebellum Posthumous Portrait,” which appeared in the summer 2021 issue (vol. 35, no. 2) of American Art, theContinue Reading
Christopher Browne has been named the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, effective immediately. He has served as acting director since January 2021. Browne first joined the museum as deputy director in 2017, and he has helped lead the museum’s multi-year renovation ofContinue Reading
Photo: @nyrr More than 22,000 runners expected to race 13.1 miles from Prospect Park to Coney Island The RBC Brooklyn Half will return at full capacity for the first time in three years on Saturday, May 21, with more than 22,000 runners expected to race in the event’s 40th running.Continue Reading
Photo: Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons After two pandemic years, Hudson River Park announces return of fully in-person season with largest, most jam-packed lineup ever Hudson River Park announced its busiest ever Spring and Summer lineup, including the return of old favorites like the critically acclaimed Blues BBQContinue Reading