Glassboro's annual St. Anthony's Italian Festival features traditional procession and authentic entertainment, food
St. Anthony's Mutual Aid Society will hold the annual St. Anthony's Italian Festival on Saturday, Sept. 20, with a traditional procession through the streets of downtown Glassboro at noon. The event also includes authentic food and entertainment, a bocce tournament and a homemade wine competition. Residents and friends are encouraged to li...
Culture tra due mondi: alla Montclair University una giornata di studi sulla letteratura italoamericana
by Barbara Gigante Una giornata all'insegna della cultura e dell'identità italoamericana, quella organizzata dalla Cattedra Theresa and Lawrence R. Inserra Endowed della Montclair State University (NJ), lo scorso giovedì 2 Ottobre. La giornata è stata aperta da un un simposio con studiosi delle università di Bologna, Firenze, della Columbia e Flen...
Presentation of “Sabato Rodia’s Watts Towers” - Mondey, October 27 at 7:00 pm
Luisa Del Giudice will discuss "Sabato Rodia's Watts Towers." The magical sculptures called the Watts Towers, made from concrete-encased iron adorned in found glass, ceramic and shells loom silently over the streets of South Central Los Angeles. The sculptures were made by an Italian immigrant, Sabato Rodia, over a period of 33...
St. Leo's two homeless dinners serve over 1,000 meals!
The Christmas and Thanksgiving Dinners for the Homeless held in November and December served approximately 1,000 meals to approximately 600 guests. Both dinners are hosted annually by St. Leo's Church. Numerous volunteers of all ages, including students from Loyola Blakefield High School, worked together to make the dinners a lovely experience for...
Lecture "Tasso, Monteverdi and the Arts" at the National Gallery of Art - January 25, 2015 at 6:00 pm
The National Gallery of Art, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and Georgetown University, presents Tasso, Monteverdi, and the Arts. Lecturers Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Peter Lukehart (National Gallery of Art CASVA) will present Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered and the works of art it inspired....
Celebrate Columbus Day Weekend with an evening of romantic Italian music
by Pamela Dollak Many are looking forward to this three-day weekend that commemorates Italian-born Christopher Columbus discovering our fair land. And this is one of the weekend's best bets — spend part of this holiday weekend celebrating with another Italian Christopher — Christopher Macchio, a classically trained Italian-American tenor who will...
Hoboken is Sinatra's kinda town: Take a short ferry in New York, New York to the charming birthplace of the renowned singer
By Harry Mount Frank Sinatra may have had a thick 'Noo Yawk' accent and sung the city's most famous song, New York, New York. But, in fact, he was a New Jersey boy, born in the pretty little town of Hoboken a century ago. It's just across the Hudson River from Manhattan's skyscrapers. Take a $7 ferry from Wall Street to Hoboken...
Constantino Brumidi: The Italian-American Artist Who Decorated the U.S. Capitol
Constantino Brumidi: not exactly a household name, and yet he was the man responsible for the decoration of several rooms and walls of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. in the 19th century. Brumidi's chief work, the allegorical fresco The Apotheosis of Washington, covers the interior of the dome in the Rotunda, described as the Capitol's "symbol...
Westy Self Storage of New Jersey Supports UNICO Wine-Tasting Fundraiser
Westy Self Storage, which operates 15 properties in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, has donated storage space as well as free use of its moving truck and driver to support Charity DiVino, a wine-tasting fundraiser that will take place Oct. 27, 7-10 p.m., in Washington Township, N.J. Produced by The Greater Ramsey Chapter of UNICO, a nonprofit...
Persistence & Damage of Negative Imagery
The history of anti-Italian American bias manifests a blatant bigotry for the past 100 years. Long before the entertainment media chose Italian Americans as whipping boys the American press maligned them in news reports, columns and in cartoons. With the advent of movies, radio and TV programming the incidence of Italo-bashing has worsened. A forth...
Sons of Italy Supports Italian Ancestors Project
The Sons of Italy is pleased to support the FamilySearch.org and National Archives of Italy project to create a searchable index of more than 115 million digitized Italian civil record images. The Italian Ancestors project will result in the largest FREE online searchable index of Italian civil records available to everyone. The Italian An...
Columbus Day Activities Announced
Saturday, October 12th Jersey City Columbus Day Parade Marchers and police vehicles should assemble at the corner of Newark Avenue & Merseles St. in downtown Jersey City at Noon. Marchers should be in department uniform or business attire to march. Sunday, October 13th Morris County Columbus Day Parade Marchers and police vehicles sh...