Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting
Scheller Gallery - Allentown Art MuseumSunday, June 8 - Sunday, September 7 With works by some of the greatest names in European art, Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums examines the thematic and stylistic developments in Italian art, from the religious paintings of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to the se...
Glow 5K at Jackson Square to benefit Italian Heritage Festival
by Zach Tuggle Hundreds of people glowing in bright neon colors will run Saturday night through portions of Clarksburg during a charity race that will benefit the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival. The race — called the Glow in the Square Ultimate 5K Fun Run — is a twist replacing the festival's annual race. "It's definitely so...
Little Italy Bocce League donated $1,500 to Saint Leo's Church
Little Italy Bocce League donated $1,500 to Saint Leo's Church during the November 17 Bocce Banquet held at the Little Italy Lodge. Pictured: Sal Spinnato, Sal Petti, Bob Zelkoski, Father Bernie Carman (pastor), Fran Blattermann, Giovanna Blattermann. Food from these Little Italy restaurants (and others) was donated: Amiccis, Chiapparelli'...
New documentary on the assimilation of Italian Americans
A documentary on the assimilation of Italian Americans, La Mia Strada or My Road screens May 19 at 2 p.m. in at Rowan University, New Jersey. The filmmaker, Michael DiLauro, a professor at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh and a former professor at Rowan University, will introduce the film and lead a discussion.
Church of the Assumption's St. Anthony's Italian Feast Returns for Its 14th Year On June 5
by Leona M Seufert You know that summer has arrived in Roselle Park, New Jersey when the Church of the Assumption's annual St. Anthony Italian Family Feast returns for its 14th year! Once again it will be four days of faith, fun, family and friends, packed full of delicious homemade cooking, an Italian style Café, food venders, a beer &...
Little Italy open air film fest
One of Little Italy's more popular events sponsored by the Original Little Italy Restaurant Association, the Open Air Film Fest has thrived since 1999! Movies are projected onto the outside wall of Ciao Bella Restaurant in the Da Mimmo Ristorante parking lot from a rowhome across the street, at the kindness of its owner. Ray Lancelotta, nephew of t...
Nissoli (SC): Per evitare la chiusura di Newark mi appello al Ministro Bonino con il mio collega Americano Pascrell
Deputata di Scelta Civica eletta in Nord America, Fucsia Nissoli, dopo l'interrogazione alla Camera sulla chiusura del Consolato italiano a Newark, non demorde e torna alla carica coinvolgendo l'on. Bill Pascrell, membro del Congresso USA, eletto nel New Jersay dove si trova Newark. Infatti i due parlamentari hanno inviato una lettera-appello al M...
Il Galata Morente: un antico capolavoro romano dai Musei Capitolini di Roma
La National Gallery of Art, Roma Capitale e l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington presentano una delle opere più celebri dell'antichità, il Galata Morente, un'antica scultura romana risalente al primo o secondo secolo d.C., che viaggerà per la prima volta da più di due secoli al di fuori dell'Italia. La mostra, che si terrà dal 12 dicembre 20...
Italian Festival Home Winemakers Competition Returns This Year!
This year, we welcome your homemade entries in the red, white, or cordial categories. (Cordials include anisette, fruit wine, limoncello & others.) All entries must be presented in 750ml bottles. Bottle must be labeled as follows: name of contestant, item type, & year made. Contestants may enter no more than two (2) entries per cat...
Tracing the roots of Matawan’s Italian immigrants
By Kayla J. Marsh As a child, Gloria Bucco remembers her father telling her stories about older relatives who left Italy to settle in the small town of Matawan, New Jersey. "Stories are an important part of life, we tell them all the time and sometimes don't even know it," she said in an interview Aug. 17. "My father very much wan...
Jews of Sicily: A Forgotten History, with Sergio Calderella
January 28 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm. Bridgewater JCC - 775 Talamini Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807The saga of Jewish history has no simple chapters, and the chapter on Sicilian Jews is certainly no exception. While the histories of Galician, Indian, and Japanese Jews have been studied extensively, one of the oldest communities of the Diaspora has...
Spring Grove family creamery takes pride in Italian heritage
As hot water was poured into a stainless steel kettle, Rynn Caputo stirred what became a smooth provolone.Eventually the cheese was ready to be stretched, twisted and kneaded into a length that rivaled the longest jump rope."At some point, this becomes a two-person job," said her husband, David Caputo.While the couple worked, their words and the wa...