Il famoso attore Gary Sinise riceverà il prestigioso Saint Pio Award in Washington, D.C., il prossimo 27 maggio 2016
Il famosissimo attore Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Il Miglio Verde), candidato al premio Oscar e vincitore del premio Golden Globe ed Emmy, riceverà il prestigioso Saint Pio Award il prossimo 27 Maggio 2016, nella capitale americana, Washington, D.C. Il premio Saint Pio è stato creato dalla più rinomata fondazione che promuove Padre Pio i...
Melissa Marino selected as future leader of NIAF on Campus
Melissa Marino has been selected by the National Italian American Foundation to join the Italian American Leadership Council (IALC) Fellow Program. Melissa Marino is a Santa Barbara native receiving a BFA in Theatre Performance and a BA in Italian Language and Culture at Chapman. She studied abroad in the spring of 2015 in Milan, Italy, an...
4th annual Italian American Festival arrives June 2
Thousands of people are expected to join the festivities, 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, June 2 at Rose Tree Park in Media. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, the Italian Embassy in Washington, and the Consul General of Italy, represented in Philadelphia by the Consul General Luigi Scotto, have declared 2013 Anno Della Cultura Italiana Negli Sta...
La Festa Della Repubblica in Philadelphia
June 7, 2015, Sunday 11:00 AM - 7:00 PMEast Passyunk Avenue - 1601 E Passyunk AvenuePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19148Filitalia International & Foundation Presents La Festa Della Repubblica – Italian National Day, which will be held on Sunday, June 7, 2015. 11am-7pm Rain or Shine This wonderful event will be located in South...
Dante Alighieri's 750th Birthday Anniversary at the Library of Congress
Thursday, December 03, 2015 From 4:00 pm To 6:30 pm. Entrance : Free of Charge - RSVP Required - Please contact Lucia Wolf at 202-707-2256 or lwolf@loc.gov to RSVP for this event. Library of Congress - James Madison Memorial Building - Mumford Room and West Dining Room, 6th Floor - 101 Independence Ave. SE - ...
Bryanna DeFazio: Being Regina Maria is 'Beyond a dream come true'
by Darlene J. Swiger People lined West Main Street in downtown Clarksburg Friday afternoon to watch the 38th annual West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival coronation. The ceremony officially kicks off the three-day festival held each Labor Day weekend. Friday's ceremony began with the introduction of the festival's princesses, Mi...
Italian American Heritage Club presents scholarships
The 2012 Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County presented its annual scholarships at a recent diner meeting held at the Copper Hill Country Club in Ringoes. Recipients and Club Officers (from left) are Anthony Nicaretta, Christopher DeSapio, Tess Pearson, Karlina Juelch, Foundation Treasurer James Christie, Scholarship Chairperson Donna...
Capitol dome renovation: Historic icon set for 2-year facelift
"To-night I have been wandering awhile in the Capitol, which is all lit up," wrote poet Walt Whitman in 1865. "The illuminated rotunda looks fine. I like to stand aside and look a long, long while, up at the dome; it comforts me somehow." It still comforts America. But while you'd never know it to look at it, the Capitol dome is slowly,...
Sinatra: An American Icon Symposium – May 9, 12 pm
The Sinatra Family and Frank Sinatra Enterprises are pleased to announce some of the major initiatives confirmed as part of this year's Sinatra 100 centennial celebration honoring one of the most cherished entertainment legends of all time, Frank Sinatra. An icon who forever epitomizes the American dream, Frank Sinatra continues to have an...
Columbus Day Ceremony in Washington, DC
The National Christopher Columbus Association, together with Italian-American organizations from the Washington, DC area, will be hosting a ceremony at the Columbus Memorial Statue in front of Union Station in Washington, DC on Monday, October 12, 2015. The United States Marine Band will begin the program at 10:45 am with patriotic marches – a...
Caldwell’s 102-Year-Old Toby Santoro Receives Special Recognition Award; Spango and Cocchiola Honored as ‘Stellas della Contea di Essex'
An Essex County Italian-American Heritage Month Celebration was held on Oct. 9, in the lobby of the Essex County Hall of Records. Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. recognized Patty Spango, the newly appointed Essex County Deputy Superintendent of Elections/Deputy Commissioner of Registration, and Dr. Frank A. Cocchiola,...
We're No. 2! Johnston is nation's second most Italian community
By Paul Edward Parker Where's the most Italian place in the United States? We could just check the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, whose latest numbers came out this month, but how much fun would that be? Instead, we went to Luigi's Restaurant & Gourmet Express, a well-regarded Johnston eatery founded by the very Ital...