Acclaimed pizza maker opens NJ Italian market/restaurant
Sal Basile, celebrated Cooking Channel chef, restaurateur, and one of the country’s foremost authorities in Italian cuisine opened the doors to his first Sally Boy’s restaurant in Red Bank. “We set out to create something truly different, so we started with something truly amazing. We’re more than a pizza joint - we’re an experience,” says Chef Bas...
Italian American author wins book award
Italian American author Jo-Ann Vega’s debut poetry collection, Wolf Woman & Other Poems, is a Bronze Medal Winner in the Poetry category in Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Awards, 2022-2023. Started in 2005, Reader Views is one of the most prestigious and longest-running book award competitions on the indie publishing scene. Reader Views uses a thre...
Columbus Day Parade Seeks Nominations For Grand Marshal
The Ocean County Columbus Day Parade Committee is searching for a grand marshal for their 32nd annual parade, one of the highlights of their Italian Festival to be held in Seaside Heights from October 6-8. “The Ocean County Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival has grown into one of the most popular ethnic celebrations in the state, attracting t...
Review: Caruso’s Grocery arrives in Pike & Rose
Is it a crime to go to a red sauce Italian joint and fall in love with a salad? If it is, book me, because I can’t get enough of one offered at Caruso’s Grocery, which opened in the Pike & Rose development in December. When my tricolore salad arrives at the table, I stop for a few seconds to take in the prettiness of the assemblage of bright red ra...
Fulbright Scholar from Italy Comes to Seton Hall
Seton Hall is well-known for its faculty and students who win Fulbright Scholarships to study in other parts of the world, but the Fulbright Program also offers highly competitive grants to bring scholars from other countries to the United States to pursue their research. This semester (Spring 2023) Claudio Staiti of Italy is in residence at Seton...
It's a good fate for Worcester native Lucia Giannetta in 'Hercules'
Actor/singer and Worcester native Lucia Giannetta's first large-scale theater production since the pandemic is a "Herculean" affair. She's in the cast of the new Disney musical "Hercules" at the famous Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. As fate would have it in a good way, there might be something positive and new coming out of the pande...
Bi-annual Filitalia International Convention in Villanova, PA
Attention Everybody! On Sunday, April 30th, Filitalia International will be hosting our bi-annual Convention at the prestigious Overbrook Golf Club in Villanova, PA where we will elect the 2023-2025 Board of Directors for Filitalia International! Another historical moment as an international organization in our 47th year of promoting, preserving, a...
Italian Design Day - Technology and Tradition for Sustainable Architecture
Tuesday, Mar 14, 2023, 6:00 PM EDT. Italian Cultural Institute - 3000 Whitehaven St, NW Washington, DC 20008. As part of the 7th edition of Italian Design Day in the US, the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC hosts an exhibit curated by Professor Lavinia Fici Pasquina, associate professor at the School of Architecture at Catholic Universit...
Rocco's Italian Sausage, a cult favorite at Home Depot stores in Philly, to expand in Bucks County
There's nothing quite like picking up supplies at a Home Depot store in Philly and stopping to grab a breakfast sandwich or a cheesesteak at the Rocco's Italian Sausage stand in the parking lot. It's a great example of symbiosis in action: Hungry home improvers fuel up on calories at shacks that have found the perfect, niche market for people to ki...
Bringing Italy to College Hill: Virtual reality in art history classrooms
You’re inside the Magi Chapel, staring up at the Renaissance frescoes, boldly colored and intricately detailed. The scene is all-consuming; it surrounds you and pulls you in. Now, take off your virtual reality goggles. You’re in the Williams Center for the Arts attending art history professor Eric Hupe’s Italian Renaissance class. Hupe and his rese...
Donne & Arte Oggi - Women and Contemporary Art in Italy and Beyond
March 8, 2023 at 6pm. Vital Voices Headquarters - 1509 16th Street NW - Washington DC 20036. RSVP Here. On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Washingtopn DC is glad to invite you to "Donne & Arte Oggi: Women and Contemporary Art in Italy and beyond". The seminar is organized in collaboration with Vital Voic...
Union's Constantino's Italian Market Places First in Central Jersey at 2023 MeatBall Bowl
A Union Italian market took home first place for best meatballs in the Central Jersey division of Pizza Bowl 3, a philanthropic event benefiting the Tunnel to Towers Foundation that raised over $21,000 for the nonprofit. Constantino’s Italian Market, in the old Napoli's Deli space on Chestnut Street, was founded in 2016. The market was among 15 oth...