'New' Italian varietals are big on SJ wine lists
by Marla Cimini Wine lovers can raise a glass to something new emerging on the South Jersey scene. From Sicily to Tuscany (and beyond), several lesser-known varietals are showing up on local menus and wine lists. In Cherry Hill, Caffe Aldo Lamberti offers over a thousand different wines (30 percent from Italy) and has three on-site wi...
Italian Sister Cities delegation visits Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth Beach and Greve-in-Chianti, Tuscany, signed a Sister Cities agreement in 2010. Rehoboth Beach Sister Cities Association members and interested citizens visited the Italian city and formed a successful rapport and friendship. Each year since 2010, there have been exchange visits: Delawareans to Greve in 2012 and 2014 to celebrate V...
Get your tickets to ‘An Evening of Italian Song’
The Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center, Inc. (HRPAC) will host its annual benefit concert and dinner gala at the Chart House Restaurant in Weehawken on Saturday, April 16 at 6 p.m. The evening will honor of late state Supreme Court Justice Marie Garibaldi, who lived in Weehawken, where the HRPAC effort is also based. HRPAC is a non-p...
Believing the Impossible: Neapolitan Identity and the Cult of San Gennaro
When: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 @ 6:00 p.m. Where: Beck Rooms—University Library, Lower Level, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079 R.S.V.P. to barbara.ritchie@shu.edu or (973) 275-2967. The Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute is pleased to present Believing the Impossible: Neapolitan Identity and the...
Pittsburgh's 4th Annual Bocce Festival August 17
Watch more than 30 teams throw out the pallino and throw down for a worthy cause at the Fourth Annual Bocce Tournament & Festival. Organized by Jack Mascaro of Mascaro Construction Company, the event benefits the Italian American Endowed Fund, which is dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Italian Americans in Western Pennsylvania....
“Come Fly with Me” Casino Night with Live and Silent Auction Friday, October 25, 2013 at the Ronald Reagan Building in D.C.
Back by popular demand, the National Italian American Foundation's (NIAF) Friday evening extravaganza is part of NIAF's 38th Anniversary Gala Weekend. Join us at the Foundation's first-ever Casino night in the atrium of the Ronald Reagan Building. Try your luck at the casino tables and place your bids at our popular live and silent auction table wi...
Fast-casual Italian restaurant to open at Canton Crossing
By Sarah Meehan The fun continues at Canton Crossing, where another restaurant will join the lineup of shops and eateries. Venti-Tre, a fast-casual Italian restaurant, will open early next year at the Boston Street shopping center. Venti-Tre is a spinoff of Fazoli's, a Lexington, Ky.-based Italian chain. The Canton location is Venti-Tre's fi...
Four Italian gems: Assisi, Padua, Siena, and San Gimigano
An insider knows that the best of Italy can be found in the small cities, hill towns, and villages where elements that we think of as quintessentially Italian abound: rich history, magnificent art, and fascinating architecture. Join art historian Elaine Ruffolo, a lecturer for Syracuse University in Florence, in an exploration of four such...
Gabriele Ciampi, primo compositore italiano alla Casa Bianca
Un primato che lascia il segno. Classe 1976, Gabriele Ciampi sarà il primo compositore italiano e direttore d'orchestra ad esibirsi davanti al Presidente degli Stati Uniti Barack Obama e alla First Lady Michelle Obama all'interno della Casa Bianca, in un concerto esclusivo per il tradizionale 'White House Holiday Tour', evento annuale organizzato d...
The Search For A Grand Marshal Is On!
Nominate Someone To Be Grand Marshal In This Years Columbus Day ParadeThe Ocean County Columbus Day Parade Committee is currently accepting nominations for Grand Marshal of the Twenty-third Annual Parade and Italian Festival to be held in Seaside Heights from October 10th through October 12th. The deadline for nominations for Grand Marshal is Apri...
Preschoolers Show Off Italian Skills
Let's Play in Italian, an Italian pre-school that teaches children and adults to speak Italian, recently held its 6th annual "End of the Year Celebration." The enthusiastic energy of children, parents, and staff from Let's Play in Italian filled the air at the Scotch Plains/Fanwood High School, where the event was held. Read more...
Suso Checci D'Amico: Homage at 100 - October 3, 2014 at 6:30PM
Caterina d'Amico, daughter of Suso Cecchi D'Amico, will discuss her mother's work at the Embassy of Italy. In the history of cinema, Suso Cecchi d'Amico (1914 – 2010) remains the most memorable of all Italian screenwriters. Collaborating with the postwar directors Antonioni, De Sica, Monicelli, Rosi, and Visconti, among others, she was a m...