Who has the best pizza in Bloomfield? Find out at Little Italy Days
Who has the best pizza between three shops along Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield? It will be determined at Little Italy Days, running Aug. 15-18. The annual festival features four days of food, games, crafts and live entertainment with more than 30 acts on three stages. New this year is a pizza contest between Angelo’s Pizzeria, Caliente Pizza & Draft...
Bisnonna Bakeshop brings a slice of Italy to the DMV
Bisnonna Bakeshop owner Nicole Liberatore joined Good Morning Washington to discuss what Italian desserts the Fairfax (VA) bakeshop offers. Liberatore brought a taste of Italy to the studio with a cornucopia of Italian desserts. She also demonstrated how to properly fill a cannoli, grandma style. "Bisnonna" translates to great-grandmother in Italia...
Benvenuto at the Fayette County Italian Heritage Festival
Last year’s Fayette County Italian Heritage Festival was an emotional time for Jim Santilli. Both he and Ron Romeo, the chairman and vice chairman of the festival respectively, worked diligently to return the beloved event to the streets of downtown Uniontown (PA) after a four-year hiatus. “We grew up with the festival. We were there when it start...
Italian airshow team to perform over VB Oceanfront
The 75th anniversary of NATO is this year, and to celebrate, various US military display teams and international display teams will be participating in an airshow over the Virginia Beach Oceanfront on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The show is one of several stops for the Italian Air Force’s Freece Tricolori, who are currently on a North American Tour. This...
Neighborhood gem marks 50 years of serving 'unapologetically old-school NJ Italian' food
Fifty years ago, Espo’s was a neighborhood Italian joint, tucked between modest homes a block from downtown Raritan Borough. Its dark, wood-paneled interior was lit by the roaring laughter of locals, who came in one, two, three times a week for red sauce dishes like stuffed shells, chicken cacciatore and stuffed peppers listed on a chalkboard menu....
IAATO Presents Check to Monmouth Medical Center’s Unterberg Children’s Hospital
Members of the Italian American Association of the Township of Ocean (IAATO), an organization that has a long history of supporting The Unterberg Children’s Hospital and the community it serves, went to Monmouth Medical Center to deliver proceeds from their annual car show fund-raiser. The highly successful event, which was held June 9th and exceed...
13th Annual Bocce Tournament & Festival in Pittsburgh, PA
13th Annual Bocce Tournament & Festival. Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. Acrisure Stadium, 100 Art Rooney Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15212. The 13th Annual Bocce Tournament & Festival will return to Acrisure Stadium, South Endzone Gate A, on Saturday, Aug. 24. Support the History Center’s Italian American Program and sponsor a team of four in the double-elimina...
St. Bart's to Celebrate 50th Annual Italian Festival on Labor Day Weekend
The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Chapter of UNICO, in collaboration with St. Bartholomew's Church and St. Bartholomew's Academy, announces the milestone return of the 50th Annual Italian Festival. The vibrant celebration of community, culture, and culinary delights is set to take place from August 30 to Sept. 2, 2024, at St. Bartholomew the Apostle Church...
Volunteers make meatballs ahead of St.Paul's Italian festival
St. Paul's Italian Festival is quickly approaching, but the food prep has been underway since June. On Tuesday, it was all about making over 3,000 meatballs. St. Paul's kitchen was filled with the scent of Italian seasonings as volunteers rolled and cooked thousands of meatballs. As Tricia Louis said, "When we come to the Italian Fest next weekend,...
Festa Italiana sure to be deliziosa
Once again Festival Way in Bradford (PA) will be filled with the sights and sounds of Italian food, music and culture during 2024 Festa Italiana, held Aug. 8, 9 and 10. This year’s event will feature musical performances, many vendors and, of course, all of those Italian treats locals wait all year to enjoy. The air will be scented with the aroma o...
To know this dean at St. Joseph’s is to know his grandmother
Joseph A. DiAngelo, 76-year-old dean and professor of management at St. Joseph’s University in Merion, Pa., was the first person in his family to obtain a doctorate degree. When he was growing up, his paternal grandmother Camille DiAngelo wanted him to become an accountant so that he could always find work preparing people’s income taxes, and his b...
Come hungry: New Kensington (PA) gearing up for 43rd annual Festa Italiana
Nancy Brock doesn’t think there will be any problem with a shortage of food for this year’s Mount St. Peter Church Festa Italiana. They’ll have more than 3,400 meatballs, 40 trays of lasagna and plenty of spaghetti, pizza and polenta, said Brock, who is in charge of food preparation for the 43rd year of the festival Aug. 2 and 3 in New Kensington....