by Nikki Link | Mar 29, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Events
Capturing the whimsy and raw creativity that draw so many to New York is no easy task. Italian contemporary artist Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi presents her playful interpretation of the Big Apple’s persona today at The Black Sheep art gallery in the San...
by Downtown Magazine | Mar 23, 2017 | Fashion
By designing her husband’s Italian restaurant to be a neighborhood spot for local TriBeCa families, Gabby Karan De Felice shares her mother, Donna Karan’s, motto about addressing people. Gabby Karan De Felice has been attuned with a sense of good design, business...
by Downtown Magazine | Feb 20, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
In his 30-plus years as a singer, songwriter and musician, Adelmo Fornaciari — better known as Zucchero — has sold over 60 million albums. Beyond being widely-recognized as the father of Italian blues music, he is the best-selling Italian artist of all...
by Downtown Magazine | Feb 9, 2017 | Business, Culture, Entertainment, NYC
A lifelong New Yorker, Cristina Alesci is an award-winning television and digital correspondent. Even before joining the CNN team in 2014, she had interviewed countless business leaders and tastemakers as a correspondent for Bloomberg. Facebook’s IPO,...
by Downtown Magazine | Jan 4, 2017 | Culture, Entertainment
As an actor, writer and director, Chazz Palminteri has been working steadily since the late 1980s. Starring in his one-man show, A Bronx Tale, turned out to be his big break as Robert De Niro helped develop it into a film in the early 1990s. Since then, Chazz has been...