STATEN ISLAND N.Y. – Serving over 600 guests at the 54th annual Staten Island Advance Women of Achievement Luncheon is no easy task. Monday’s event, which celebrated six remarkable women for their commitment to the Staten Island community, took place at the Hilton Garden Inn, Bloomfield. So just how does the staff serve hundreds of […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Chef de cuisine Peter Bereza serves up the signature Calamari in Padella as an appetizer at Lorenzo’s Restaurant Bar and Cabaret at the Hilton Garden Inn in Bloomfield. Chef Bereza says “the secret is in the sweet soy sauce in which the calamari is delicately tossed.” The beautiful 250-seat restaurant serves breakfast, […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — There is a reason the Wall Street Journal hailed Natalie Douglas as having “the soul of a gospel singer with the musicianship of a jazz singer and the warm, chatty intimacy of a chanteuse.” Celebrate Black History Month with the acclaimed vocalist as she channels the music of jazz greats Nina […]
Lorenzo’s launches 2016 cabaret season on Staten Island. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Any cabaret aficianado can tell you – it’s all about the room. If the act has the optimal venue, the audience can be led on a dazzling emotional journey that leaves everyone wanting more. Maybe that’s why so many first-rate acts are returning […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.: It’s not everyday that you come face to face with your idol — someone who you’ve admired all of your life and even dreamt about meeting one day. It surely was a dream come true for hotelier Lois Nicotra — of the Nicotra Group — the day she got to meet and […]
The Hilton Garden Inn Staten Island owners Lois and Richard Nicotra have announced the schedule for the upcoming cabaret season at Lorenzo’s Bar and Cabaret featuring performances by: Vincent Pastore and his band on November 20; Christmas in Tuscany with Micheal Castaldo on December 11; The New York Rat Pack on January 22, 2016; Natalie […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Danny Aiello has a 320-page memoir out with an epic title: “I Only Know Who I am When I am Somebody Else: My Life on the Street, On the Stage, and in the Movies” (Gallery Books). Lotta words for a lotta life. Thought you already knew this Oscar-nominated actor? Well, turns […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Even the casual television watcher would know him by his nickname: Big Pussy. His real name is Vincent Pastore and he’s the veteran actor who played Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s “The Sopranos.” But he’s no one-show-guy. After singing stints in Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” and “Chicago” on the […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Any cabaret aficionado can tell you — it’s all about the room. If the act has the optimal venue, the audience can be led on a dazzling emotional journey that leaves everyone wanting more. Maybe that’s why so many first-rate acts are returning to the Lorenzo’s Cabaret stage — some for the fourth and fifth time […]