Celebrate 110 years of culture at the S. 9th Street Italian Market Festival
For one weekend each year, the nation’s oldest outdoor continuous market transforms into Philadelphia’s largest block party. With more than 120 vendors, live entertainment, and an action-packed schedule of activities, the South 9 th Street Italian Market Festival will once again showcase the rich history and culture of this historic Philly landmark...
Amplifon grows in the US with a double acquisition
Amplifon, an Italian company founded in 1950 to help all those who had suffered hearing damage from the war, is now world leader in the retail hearing care market and is growing further in the U.S. The group has completed the acquisition of Hearing Instruments and Precision Hearing Aid, two companies owned by one of Miracle-Ear's leading franchisee...
Sons of Italy Expands Its Presence in Morris County
Sons of Italy -Lodge 2561 continues to expand its presence in Morris County, where it is well known for its charitable endeavors. At the organization’s April General Membership meeting on April 24th, they were proud to swear in an additional nine new members. This was in addition to the 11 new members who were sworn in at the previous month’s meeti...
NYC Institution Cafe Fiorello Is Expanding to D.C.
Cafe Fiorello’s first foray outside of Manhattan will reactivate a prime downtown D.C. corner that’s sat empty since 2018 (1001 Pennsylvania Avenue NW). The NYC fixture, situated across the street from Lincoln Center since 1974, continues to lure theater-goers with its reliable Italian fare and a destination antipasti bar overflowing with vegetable...
West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival holds annual Spring Gala
The kick-off event for the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival was held Saturday evening at Village Square in Clarksburg. The festival’s annual spring gala to honor its new Regina Maria and her royal court, serves as a preview of what’s to come during the main festival on Labor Day weekend. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the acclaimed...
OSDIA Welcomes Palermo Tourism Counselor Alessandro Anello to Forge Transatlantic Partnership
The Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America (OSDIA) was honored to host Alessandro Anello, the Tourism Counselor of Palermo, Sicily, at its national headquarters in Washington, D.C. on April 18. The visit marked a significant step toward fostering closer ties between OSDIA and the vibrant city of Palermo. During his visit, Anello met with OSDI...
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo to take reins of Opera Philadelphia
Anthony Roth Costanzo was hired Thursday as general director and president of Opera Philadelphia and will continue his career as a leading countertenor while taking over an ambitious company dealing with post-pandemic economic challenges. "Even though I’m an opera singer, it’s my job to ensure the health of this art form I love,” he said in an inte...
Larry Olmo brought Italy to Annapolis, and it tastes like home
Larry Olmo left his successful corporate career to cultivate a life of wine and cheese. At the same time his sons opened a successful landscaping and construction business, Larry opened an Italian market, The Olmo Brothers Nursery and Farm. This isn’t like any Italian market you have been to unless you've been to Italy. As soon as they arrive at 17...
Pittsburgh Arts & Lecture - After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 6 p.m. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Pittsburgh, PA - Free with registration here. "After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage" is the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Italian family. Enlisting Calabrian folklore, epigenetics, and psychology,...
Sugo, a New Italian Restaurant, Opens in Newark
A major retail stretch just of Downtown Newark is officially home to a new eatery as an experienced restaurant group has launched Sugo inside the Springfield Avenue Marketplace. Sugo, which specializes in pizza and Italian food, recently opened inside a storefront at 48 Jones Street. The restaurant occupies 2,100 square feet at the grocery-anchored...
Local Italians celebrate Verrazzano in Rehoboth Beach
It’s been 500 years since Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano explored much of what is now America’s eastern seaboard in 1524. Officials from Rehoboth Beach, the Delaware Commission on Italian Heritage and Culture, the Rehoboth Beach Sister Cities Association, and the Rehoboth-area chapter of UNICO gathered April 17 at the Verrazzano Monument i...
Nutley Commissioner Alphonse Petracco named 2024 Italian American Business Leader
Township of Nutley Commissioner and Department of Public Safety Director Alphonse Petracco was named the 2024 Italian American Business Leader by the Federation of Italian-American Societies of New Jersey last weekend. The Federation, which was founded in 1933 to assist and improve the quality of life of the Italians who came to America from Europe...