Italian Show in Atlantic City
The Historic Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City will be re-opening soon. Many Italian immigrants worked at this classic hotel when they first arrived at this seashore resort many years ago. And NOW on June 14 & 15 "Amore Italiano" will be among the first shows to be presented in the new Claridge Celebrity Theater. This show will surely be...
Family values, ties pull heartstrings at St. Vincent production
An ambitious young man must choose between his career aspirations and family loyalty in the warm-hearted comedy "Over the River and Through the Woods." The play is the latest offering from St. Vincent Summer Theatre in Unity. Every week, Italian-American marketing executive Nick Cristano, 29, joins his four immigrant grandparents for their...
Heinz History Center bocce fest will feature games, Italian food
More than 35 four-person teams will play bocce Aug. 16 to benefit the Italian-American program at the Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District. The teams will compete under the Veterans Bridge near 13th and Smallman streets in the fifth annual Bocce Tournament and Festival. The festival will feature music by Pure Gold, Jimmy Sapienz...
Middletown: when the sun hits your eye
It's been called the Italian Decade — that pop-music moment between the D-Day invasion at Normandy and the British Invasion of the Beatles and their peers, a time when a resurgent Frank Sinatra staked his claim as Chairman of the Board, and when Dean Martin, Perry Como and Tony Bennett brought a smoothly passionate brand of crooning to radio airwav...
Come Join us for the Annual Member Picnic and Pool Party
The Member Picnic and Pool Party will be held on Saturday, July 19th from 12-8 pm at the manor Park Swim Club located on Laurel Place in Westfield. This event is free of charge to members and families and features homemade Italian picnic, games for kids and swimming. Attendees are asked to bring a door prize and to RSVP to a member of the...
Italian cars drive into new Lehigh Valley home
By Stacy Wescoe After getting its start in a showroom at the Palmer Park Mall, Fiat of the Lehigh Valley is finally getting its own home, and one of its fancy relatives is moving in, too. Brown-Daub held a grand opening May 1 on the newly built Brown-Daub Alfa Romeo Fiat on Hecktown Road in Lower Nazareth Township. Laura Leue...
My Family ~ My Music Italian American Heritage Show
November 20 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm. 3 S Mountain Ave, Montclair, NJ, United States. Register at the door, or call (973) 461-9624 Price: $30.00/$27.00 Students and Seniors. Organizer: D'Italia Programs Join us for a musical journey from immigration to today, highlighting songs and dances from throughout Italy, as well as Italian Am...
Tony LoBianco is Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in "The Little Flower"
MNA Productions, Inc., proudly announces that Tony Lo Bianco will bring his award-winning performance as Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in THE LITTLE FLOWER to Washington D.C. and New York City this winter. The D.C. premiere will include special performances for members of the United States House and Senate, the Wounded Warriors Foundation and the Em...
A febbraio una tournée negli Usa. Zucchero "coast to coast"
Un concerto a ottobre fra i massicci di giaccio della Patagonia, un tour a febbraio di 35 date, coast to coast negli Usa, "tornando anche a suonare in locali, muovendomi con grossi pullman e solo con un quartetto di musicisti, e poi un tour di quattro date in Giappone". Lo annuncia con l'emozione di un esordiente Zucchero, già pronto a nuove sfide...
Valentine’s Day, Fall in Love With Classical Italian Songs by Michéal Castaldo at the Gables
The Gables bed and breakfast in Beach Haven welcomes a vocal performance by "classical crossover" tenor Michéal Castaldo on Saturday, Feb. 14, to set the mood for a romantic Valentine's Day dinner in a restored Victorian setting. Castaldo is an award-winning singer, composer, producer and recording artist. He was born in Calabria, Italy; r...
Let's roll! Major League Bocce makes an old game young again
by Jennifer Wright "MAJOR League Bocce" is exactly the sort of tongue-in-cheek name that works for a league that's "major" mostly in how fast it has grown. The casual, social sport league that is helping to rejuvenate the ancient game expects about 12,000 registered players this year in Philadelphia and 10 other cities nationwide. &n...
The paternal Tony Danza in 'Don Jon'
By Susan King Tony Danza and Joseph Gordon-Levitt got to know each other 20 years ago on the set of the Disney baseball fantasy "Angels in the Outfield," in which Danza played an aging pitcher and Gordon-Levitt, then 12, a foster kid. "I always had a paternal thing about him," said Danza, 62, who came to fame 35 years ago as the hapless b...