Meet Our Wise Women: Gemma Puglisi
by NOIAW Gemma Puglisi. Author, Media Expert, and Assistant Professor of Communications at American UniversityGemma will be honored at our Greater Washington, D.C. Epiphany Celebration on January 14, 2016. Buy tickets here. WHAT BEING ITALIAN MEANS TO ME. When I think of what my heritage means to me, I immediately think...
Touch of Italy receives prestigious 2013 Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence
Touch of Italy Restaurant announces it has received the 2013 Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence. The accolade, which honors hospitality excellence, is given only to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveler reviews on TripAdvisor, and is extended to qualifying businesses worldwide. Only the top-performing 10 percent of busin...
Appreciating Italian culture American style in Waldwick
The Italian American Social Club of Waldwick has been in full swing this fall. Activities slated for the coming year are dedicated to the appreciation of Italian-American culture. Monthly meetings will include tastings and demonstrations of pasta-making for kids, a St. Lucy's Day party, a card-playing café, an Italian film festival, cheese making/t...
The Heart of Italy Italian Festival
Spend part of Father's Day weekend at the Italian Festival at the Fayette County Fairgrounds! You don't want to miss this first Big Festival of the summer season! Enjoy three beautiful early summer days tasting wine from regional vendors, eating delicious foods and shopping at our local arts and craft vendor booths. Sit back and soak up the sunshin...
Jersey guy Joe DiPietro’s ‘Over the River’ staged in Spring Lake
Jersey guy Joe DiPietro — who collaborated with Bon Jovi's David Bryan on "The Toxic Avenger" and the Tony-winning musical "Memphis" — scored one of his earlier successes with a family comedy that makes up in honest laughs what it might lack in hummable tunes. Beginning tonight, Spring Lake-based South Street Players return for a new seaso...
UNICO presents Brian Piccolo Award to Kai Vitella
By Steven Billups UNICO Delaware District 1 presented Cape Henlopen High School student Kai Vitella with its 2nd Annual Brian Piccolo Award at a luncheon at Nicola Pizza May 3. This award, established in 1977, is given to a local senior athlete of Italian-American heritage who exhibits the character traits modeled by the legendary...
Nine Campaign Seasons that Sharpened the Career of Bill Pascrell Read more at Nine Campaign Seasons that Sharpened the Career of Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell of the 6th Ward was 16 when his uncle took him to a meeting of the Paterson Democratic Party. Someone threw a chair at that event. "I thought to myself, 'This is interesting,'" recalled Pascrell earlier today in his downtown district office. Pascrell won his first race in 1987 and would serve five terms in the Assembly, his...
Columbus Day Celebration: Mayor, Council Unveil Montazzoli Plaza in Scotch Plains
by John Mooney For decades, Scotch Plains and the village of Montazzoli, Italy, have been sister cities as hundreds of immigrants left the Abruzzo region of Italy in search of a better life. They discovered Scotch Plains and built a strong community on the north side of town. On Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Township's Columbus Day celebr...
Canepari’s Ciao Philadelphia event a month-long celebration
By Barbara Ann Zippi Appointed to the post of Consul General of Italy in Philadelphia in late 2013, Andrea Canepari has made a major impact in a short time. Bringing his family with him, he believes Philadelphia is one of the most European cities in the United States and he wants to spread the message to Italians in Italy and Italian Ameri...
ANSA 'tour' shows 100 photos for year of culture
Rome, May 8 - A woman handling a ruby-red tomato as gently as a newborn, the Sicilian sky reflected in crystalline waters, the triumphant expressions of restoration artists as they admire a Giotto cross sparkling like new - these moments captured on film are part of a photographic journey capturing the beauty of Italy from top to bottom, on show in...
Festa della Repubblica in Filadelfia – Console Generale Luigi Scotto nominato Ambasciatore d’Italia in Tanzania
Nella prestigiosa cornice del museo storico di Filadelfia si è celebrata la tradizionale Festa Nazionale della Republica Italiana. Durante la prima parte della serata, dedicata ai discorsi ufficiali, sia il Console che il vice sindaco Michael Diberardinis hanno sottolineato i rapporti di particolare amicizia tra Stati Uniti e Italia ed in particola...
The Italian American contributions to the American Revolutionary War
by Maria Gloria Dear readers, On July 4th let me refresh your memory and mine on the Declaration of Independence, signed July 4, 1776 (in Philadelphia) and learn about Italian and Italian American contributions to the American Revolutionary War. Although the colonists declared themselves independent of England and set up "The Uni...