Gianandrea Noseda Reveals His Secret Collection of Rare Italian String Instruments
The 2022 – 2023 season marks Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda's sixth season as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in Washington D.C. In June 2022, his contract was extended through the 2026/27 season. It was recently reported Noseda has been loaning 17th-19th century Italian string instruments from his private collection to...
A national Italian ice chain to open its first Pa. location in the Lehigh Valley
A national chain specializing in Italian Ice and ice cream is about to open its first location in Pennsylvania, and it’s in the Lehigh Valley. Uncle Louie G will open this month at 1700 Sullivan Trail in Forks Township. The chain, which began in Brooklyn, New York, has locations in New York, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina. The chain...
Italian Embassy in Washington hosts National Museum of Women in the Arts Gala
The Embassy of Italy in Washington hosted the Spring Gala of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), the first major museum in the world that is dedicated exclusively to collecting and promoting works by women artists since the 1980s. “The National Museum of Women in the Arts not only plays an essential role in Washington DC’s cultural sce...
Top 15 Must Try Italian Restaurants in New Jersey: Expect a Wait, but the Food is Phenomenal
Italian cuisine is one of the most popular cuisines in the world. It is known for its simple yet flavorful ingredients and traditional cooking techniques that have been passed down through generations. One of the most iconic Italian dishes is pizza, which originated in Naples. The classic Neapolitan pizza is made with simple ingredients like tomato...
Luigino's Parmigiana restaurant opens in Montclair, at former location of Salute
Luigino Tripoldi and his new Montclair restaurant, Luigino’s Parmigiana, are the real deal. Cynics need look no further than the black and white mural of family photos lining the back wall of the restaurant, which opened Wednesday on Glenridge Avenue in the space formerly occupied by Salute. (A few doors away is another newcomer, Maddox and Musuko...
Free Italian Heritage Event Hosted By Basking Ridge Chapter Of UNICO
The Basking Ridge Chapter of Unico National is hosting a free Heritage Event called "Live Like An Italian." The event will be held on Sunday, April 30 from 1 until 2:30 p.m. at the Bernards Township Community Center at 289 South Maple Ave. in Basking Ridge. Guests will learn about the UNICO organization and celebrate the Italian heritage. The event...
St. Joseph’s Day Italian Festival successful
The 11th annual St. Joseph’s Day Italian Festival on March 18, presented by the Sons and Daughters of Italy Ocean City Lodge #2474 and St. Luke’s/St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, was an enormous success and our best attended to date. It was a fun day for all who attended and a profitable fundraiser. We have many individuals, merchants and organization...
Harrisburg-based Italian restaurant plans May opening of Carlisle location
Less than six months after Nonna Ilva made its Broad Street Market debut in Harrisburg, the Italian restaurant plans to open another location in Carlisle. The business, featuring Italian cuisine and desserts, is anticipated to open at 204 N. Hanover St., around May 11, owner Mattia Cappella said. He said the Carlisle location will have a larger...
Italian Consul General Builds Bridges with the Pittsburgh Italian Community
Pittsburgh is a city of bridges, around six hundred of them, spanning rivers and valleys, joining geographically separated neighborhoods. And on March 31, 2023, another bridge was erected in Pittsburgh joining its Italian and Italian-American communities to the nation of Italy. Istituto Mondo Italiano, led by the Executive Director Viviana Altieri,...
The Italian-American community in cinema celebrated in Washington
The Embassy of Italy and the Middleburg Film Festival organized an evening in Washington celebrating the Italian-American community’s success in film, with a reception and the screening of producer and director Ray Romano’s feature film Somewhere in Queens, a comedy about a family at the heart of the Italian-American community in Queens, New York....
After 66 years, Fusco's Italian Water Ice expands statewide, including at Blue Rocks games
For nearly 70 years, the Fusco family has been serving handmade Italian water ice from a small stand on Wilmington's Union Street in Little Italy. The flavor is almost always lemon, a pure mix of water, sugar and hand-selected lemons complete with flecks of lemon rind dotting the saccharine slush. Only a few years ago, the Fusco's Italian Water Ice...
Choose Your Own Adventure at Bloomfield’s Popolari
Yes, if you think we have more than enough Italian restaurants in Baristaville, you would be right. If you think we have a lot of great Italian restaurants to brag about in our area, you would also be right! So when a new Italian restaurant opens, you’ve got to wonder – what will make this one stand out among the others? Enter Popolari. Let’s start...