The “Bridge Book Award” opens the series of events for the Week of the Italian Language in the World
On Monday October 19, 2015, at 6:30 pm, with the Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Claudio Bisogniero, in attendance, the Embassy of Italy in Washington will host the award ceremony for the Italian winners of the first edition of The Bridge Book Award. The Bridge prize represents the ideal "bridge" joining Italian and American culture...
Woodbridge Township salutes Italian Americans
by Laurie McCabe State Sen. Joseph F. Vitale and The Knights of Columbus Colonia Council #6571 conducted a flag-raising ceremony on Oct. 11 in observance of Columbus Day. Special guests included U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Assemblyman Craig Coughlin, Mayor John E. McCormac and members of the Woodbridge Township Council and Board of Education....
Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
Date: March 24. Time: 7:00 pm. Cost: $7 - $10. Website: http://www.ciiacofnj.org/ The Center for Italian & Italian American Culture (CIIAC) - 411 Pompton Avenue, Suite 5 - Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 United States The Center for Italian & Italian American Culture (CIIAC) will hos...
NJIHC 13th Annual Congress
On Saturday, November 12th, The New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission (NJIHC) hosted its 13th Annual Congress: "Showcasing New Jersey Artists" at Rutgers' Zimmerli Art Museum. Italophiles and art aficionados from across the state, gathered to learn more about several of New Jersey's most gifted Italian and Italian American visual artists:...
D'Angelo's Meats is said to be closing after 106 years in the Italian Market
by Michael Klein Amid the stalls and shops of the Italian Market, word has been spreading of the impending retirement of Sonny D'Angelo, whose grandfather opened the family butcher shop on Ninth Street just south of Christian Street in 1910. When D'Angelo, 67, hangs up his apron at the end of the month after a half-century of work, D'...
L'Aquila, il Gran caffè negli Usa il sogno americano a Philadelphia
Alla scoperta dell'America e alla sua conquista, più come una family Groove aquilana che come emigranti in fuga. Partire è un po' morire, «chi è felice non si muove» (Thomas Mann), è vero, ma Michele Morelli e Stefano Biasini del Gran caffè dell'Aquila non scappano, piuttosto inseguono un sogno americano, un american dream, in cerca di un'altra pos...
Italian opera makes American debut at Media Theatre
by Kathleen E. Carey The end of Verdi's Otello, as many know, is rather bleak. Desdemona and Otello are dead, havoc has been unleashed and the villain Jago escapes. Disconcerting to some, it intrigued Karen Saillant, artistic director and stage director of the International Opera Theater, to create a sequel based on the miscreant. &n...
The Language and Enrichment Center hosts 5th annual End of the Year Celebration at the Scotch Plains Italian American Club
The Scotch Plains Italian American Club was filled with electrifying energy of the children, parents, and staff of the Language and Enrichment Center the night of June 6th. The Italian Language and Enrichment Center hosted their 5th annual End of the Year Celebration which comprised of children ages 2 ½ – 9 of the Let's Play in Italian prog...
Italian-American Innovators: How their inventions make our daily life just a little bit nicer
The entire world is familiar with the accomplishments of the great Italian inventors, artists and explorers. The artistic contributions of Leonardo DaVinci to the art world, the genius of Guglielmo Marconi to science, and of the discovery of America through the explorations of Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo). But what of the less...
Italian American Heritage Club to meet Oct. 15 in Asbury
The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at the Grand Colonial Restaurant on Rt. 173 in Asbury. The guest speaker will be Sam Faiello. Faiello is a Hunterdon County resident whose public relations firm was retained by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey to develop pub...
Rights(?)/Growth at the Kennedy Center - Millenium Stage
Italian dancer and choreographer Mimmo Miccolis and Austrian dancer Gloria Benedikt develop contemporary dance on the edge of artistic innovation and human need and base their work around issues of public concern, for which they strive to create artistic responses that inspire, thought provoke and emotionally touch audiences. RIGHTS(?) (Am...
Festa Italiana Bethlehem, a new local Italian festival, debuting in June
by Lynn Olanoff Musikfest. Celtic Classic. Festa Italiana? Yes, a new Italian festival called Festa Italiana Bethlehem is joining Bethlehem's hearty festival lineup this June, set for June 5 and 6 on Main Street. The event will feature both a wine and pasta trail along with authentic Italian vendors, said Lynn Collins Cunning...