An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola
When: Sunday, July 20, 2025 Doors Open 6PM • SHOWTIME 7PM - Where: Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre • Basie Center Campus • 99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, New Jersey Legendary director, Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders) is bringing his monumental 2024 film, MEGALOPOLIS, to select cities across the country. This e...
The St. Ann’s Feast in Hoboken Announces 2025 Dates
The St. Ann’s Feast is returning to Hoboken once again this summer at 704 Jefferson Street. This year’s festival marks its 115th annual celebration, and will take place from Wednesday, July 23rd to Sunday, July 27th, 2025. As per usual, locals can expect the infamous zeppoles, live entertainment, kiddie rides, a beer garden, and much more. The orga...
UNICO’s Brian Piccolo Awards honor pair of area scholar-athletes
The Rehoboth Area Chapter of UNICO recently held its 13th annual Brian Piccolo Scholarship program at St. Edmond Parish Hall. Each year a scholar-athlete of Italian heritage, who exemplifies courage, friendship, loyalty, teamwork, dedication, sense of humor and anti-bias, as modeled in the life and career of Brian Piccolo, is chosen for this honor....
The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festival turns 150
On July 16, 1875, more than a decade before the town had its own Catholic parish, Italian immigrants in Hammonton met at the home of Antonio Capelli to pray to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, giving thanks for safe passage to the United States, for a successful harvest and for good fortune in the years to come. On July 16, 2025, the town of Hammonton wi...
Sports diplomacy: the Embassy of Italy in Washington celebrates Italian football at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025
On the eve of Juventus’s debut match in the FIFA Club World Cup 2025—scheduled for this evening at Audi Field Stadium in Washington, DC against Al Ain—the Embassy of Italy in the United States hosted today, in collaboration with Juventus and FIFA, a gathering with members of the Italian community and a group of students from local schools. The Char...
Washington Spirit signs forward Sofia Cantore, first Italian NWSL player
The Washington Spirit is adding more international flavor to its roster while bolstering its attack for the second half of the National Women’s Soccer League season. Washington signed Italian forward Sofia Cantore on a three-year deal with a 2028 team option in a transfer from Italian side Juventus FC. She will officially join the Spirit once the s...
Bikers rally to bring back statues of Columbus, Caesar Rodney
Motorcycle enthusiasts who want the return of Italian-American statues rallied on June 1 for a ride that included stops in Wilmington, Del., Media, Pa., and Port Deposit, Md. The purpose of their ride was to show their support for reinstating the statues of Christopher Columbus and Caesar Rodney in Wilmington. The Columbus statue once towered over...
Festival Italiano Goes Back To School For Its Seventh Edition
A masterclass in Italian was certainly in session at Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ, where honorary professor Tony Boniello hosted the 7th Festival Italiano under the Cars & Caffe banner. Just about 100 curated cars were admitted to “The Grove” near the Havemeyer Arch, the iconic landmark of the Bergen County college. On a day easily described as per...
St. Ann's Italian Festa in Raritan returns after five years
Volunteer Joe Cirillo spent years shepherding the efforts to revive the beloved St. Ann's Italian Festa in Raritan Borough − before he even had the opportunity to attend one. Due to COVID-19 and financial difficulties, the principal fundraiser for St. Ann Church and accompanying St. Ann Classical Academy was in purgatory for five years. But thanks...
Anthony DeVito Jersey Boy A True Crime Story
When: Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM - Where: 207 Edgewater Rd, Cliffside Park, NJ, 07010 - More info here The Cliffside Park Arts Association (CPAA) is excited to announce a special fundraiser event on Friday, June 13th, supporting the Italian American Repertory Company. The evening will feature Anthony DeVito Jersey Boy: A True Crime Story—a captiv...
Italian Conductor Hosts 'Opera Unbound: A Sunset Serenade' at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Opera Italiana is in the Air, a unique outdoor global concert series, returns to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with Opera Unbound: A Sunset Serenade on Sunday, June 15 at 6:30 PM. The free, open-air concert invites audiences of all ages to experience the beauty of Italian opera in an iconic, welcoming setting - far different from the fancy g...
Rispoli's wild ride aboard Journalism makes him the first Italian jockey to win a Triple Crown race
Umberto Rispoli took quite a path to make history. Rispoli became the first jockey from Italy to win a Triple Crown race Saturday in Baltimore (MD), squeezing between horses around the top of the stretch and then riding Journalism to a tremendous rally in the stretch run of the Preakness. Rispoli's colt was the even-money favorite, but this was n...