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The Italian American One Voice Coalition (“IAOVC”), America’s largest independent Italian American anti-bias organization, was recently advised that the Rockaway, NJ School Board would AGAIN be considering eliminating the Columbus Day holiday on the 2025 – 2026 school calendar. It was just a short three years ago that this was under consideration b...

Congressman Tom Suozzi wants to give back to his heritage. The first-generation Italian-American has introduced the bipartisan National Museum of Italian American History Commission Act. The legislation would start a planning commission to examine the possibility of creating a Smithsonian Museum of Italian American History on the Washington Mall....

Anthony D’Alessandro is justifiably proud of a lot of things. There’s his designation as a cavaliere – a knight of merit – by the Italian government. There’s the quality of the uniforms that he makes – almost all of the uniforms for America’s military branches, plus more for military academies, local first responders and the occasional Hollywood mo...

Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour, a five-day cinephile festival, is scheduled to start on March 5, 2025, and run through March 9, 2025. The event is organized by the Italian Program and the Program in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Festival co sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington and presen...

More than 160 people attended a Plainfields’ Chapter of UNICO fundraising dinner on Feb. 2, with proceeds from the event benefiting local charities and creating scholarship opportunities. Members of the nonprofit organization volunteered their time and culinary expertise to create a wonderful homecooked Italian meal and festive atmosphere for “Nonn...

The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington, in collaboration with Georgetown University, presents the book  by Francesco Cotticelli and Paologiovanni Maione, “Enrico Caruso: L’uomo, l’artista, il divo”  (2024, Hollitzer ed.) The authors, Professor Francesco Cotticelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) and Professor Paologiovanni Maio...

Now open in Morristown: Masseria Italian Steakhouse, the latest venture from Joe Cetrulo and Trinity Hospitality Group, which includes Sirena in Long Branch and Stella Marina in Asbury Park. Cetrulo is a Morris Township resident who owned (and was the chef at) La Campagna in Morristown from 1995 to 2012. He'd been looking to start a restaurant clos...

  Please support H.R. 9987 National Museum of Italian American History Commission Act, which would create a planning commission to examine the feasibility of establishing a Smithsonian Museum of Italian American History. Every major Italian American organization in the country has endorsed this bill. All of the bipartisan Chairs and Co-Chairs of th...

If Super Bowl LIX ends in green confetti Sunday night, you can be certain Philadelphians will take to the sky. Explanations for the strange and at times obscene behavior of Philadelphia’s sports fans have long eluded the rest of the world, and the city’s obsession with climbing greased street poles is no different. However, there may just be a meth...

Well, we may have missed Milltown Mel on Groundhog Day, but nobody should miss Milltown Bianca of Bella Bianca Italian Deli. At the former location of Lock, Stock, and Deli 218 Ryders Lane, Milltown residents Pete and Bianca Badawy have laid out an Italian spread of gourmet sandwiches, hot food, soups, and salads that are both traditional and creat...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art after a monumental feat in networking and logistics by the Williamsburg, Virginia museum ahead of the Renaissance master’s 550th anniversary. Curator Adriano Marinazzo, an architect and Michelangelo expert, has organ...

On Tuesday, January 21, the Clark Township Council met for its first meeting following its reorganization meeting of January 1. During the meeting, Ms. Kim Baglieri was honored with the 2024 Volunteer Resident of the Year Award. Also of note, Councilmember Angel Albanese, who had already been serving as acting mayor of the Township of Clark since t...