Carmela Scala named a Co-Intelligence Exploration Teaching Fellow
Dr. Carmela Scala, Director of the Italian Language Program has been named a Co-Intelligence Exploration Teaching Fellow for the Institute for Teaching, Innovation, and Inclusive Pedagogy (TIIP). Carmela’s fellowship will focus on digital storytelling with Chatbot. More details below. Create a digital story using a chatbotIn this activity, students...
Documentary Details Italian Hardships During WW II
During World War II, some 600,000 Italians in America found their freedoms restricted by the U.S. government. The Italian Cultural Society of LBI invites the public to view the sobering cinematic account of their ordeal, “Potentially Dangerous,” at the Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City (NJ) on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 2...
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic conferred by Ambassador Zappia on NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli
The Italian Ambassador to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, presented the honor of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic to Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest biomedical research agency, last night in Washington. “It is truly a great pleasure to be able to bestow such...
Seaside Heights (NJ) becomes Little Italy with food and music in 3-day Columbus Day festival
The borough will morph into Little Italy this weekend as the annual Columbus Day Parade and Italian Festival are celebrated in town. The parade kicks off at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, on the Boulevard in Seaside Heights. Once again, a folkloric group from Italy will visit the borough for the parade, which is organized by the Ocean County Columbus Day...
‘Disaronno’ Opens Its Office at Baltimore Peninsula
Disaronno International LLC has opened its 6,480 sq. ft. office at the Rye Street Market office building at Baltimore Peninsula. Disaronno is an Italian liqueur and its Italy-based parent company, Illva Saronno Holding S.p.A., became the majority owner of Sagamore Spirit in 2023. Sagamore Spirit is a rye whiskey brand with a distillery. It was foun...
Italian Heritage Festival Coming to Roselle Park (NJ) on Oct. 19
How many cannolis can you eat? If you think you've got a stomach of steel, plan to challenge your neighbors at the Italian Heritage Festival on Oct. 19 complete with a cannoli eating contest. The event is also slated to have a wine garden, featuring live music. For the whole family, there will be food trucks and attractions aimed at sharing Italian...
Inside Olio e Più, a Dreamy New Trattoria for Downtown DC
NYC-born Olio e Più, a sprawling spot to sit and sample Italy’s many regional cuisines and wines in one place, makes its anticipated D.C. debut this week. The charming new restaurant joins its fancy French sibling La Grande Boucherie, which made a grand entrance upstairs in the same Federal-American National Bank Building this spring (699 14th Stre...
Award-winning Singer Cristina Fontanelli Returns to Her Hudson County Roots with Italian Songs of the Sea at St. Peters
Award-winning Singer/PBS-TV host for Andrea Bocelli, Cristina Fontanelli who spent her formative career years in Hoboken, NJ as the grandaughter of Italian immigrants who settled there, has become an international personality through her recordings and appearances on-stage, radio and TV. On Wednesday, October 16 at 12 Noon, St. Peter's University i...
Italian Music At The Library in Verona, NJ
In honor of Italian-American Heritage & Culture Month, the Verona Public Library will present an afternoon of classical Italian music featuring mezzo-soprano Teresa Giardina and pianist Rob Keiser on Sunday, October 13, at 3 p.m. Among the works will be keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and three Italian arias by Mozart. Giardina earned her ba...
South Plainfield Celebrating Italian Heritage Month 2024
Since 1989, the achievements and contributions of Italian immigrants and their descendants living in the US have been celebrated each October. The month-long observance is held to 'salute the Italian and Italian American community and to exhibit appreciation for their culture and their heritage that have enriched the lives of people around the worl...
42nd Annual Nutley - Belleville Columbus Day Parade is Sunday Oct. 13
Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day & Italian Heritage Month Parade Scheduled for this Sunday, October 13th. Festivities for the 42nd Annual Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day & Italian Heritage Month commemorating Columbus' historic voyage to the New World will be celebrated Sunday, October 13th. The Columbus Day & Italian Heritage Month Parade will kick o...
Pittsburgh Columbus Day Parade Plans Unveiled
Bloomfield, the nation's fifth largest Italian-American community, again will hold the annual Pittsburgh Columbus Day Parade. This year's parade, which begins Oct. 12 at 11 a.m., will feature more than 100 bands, floats, organizations and businesses recognizing the contributions of the region’s Italian Americans. The parade will begin on Liberty...