Concert Opera: Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi”
You are invited to attend a performance of Vincenzo Bellini's beautiful opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" (the Romeo and Juliet story) which will take place at the GW Lisner Auditorium, 21st and H St. NW in DC at 6:00 pm on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Concert opera is a form in which the singers are at the front of the stage and perform in...
"From Sicily with love": Da Philadelphia a Chiaromonte il gran varietà promosso dai ragusani nel mondo
Sono cinque i talenti iblei, già affermati sulla scena internazionale o sulla via della consacrazione, che negli anni scorsi hanno ricevuto il riconoscimento del Premio Ragusani nel Mondo. Sono Francesco Cafiso, jazzista di acclarata fama, Giovanni Cultrera, pianista esibitosi nei teatri di svariate metropoli mondiali, Rachele Amenta, giovanissima...
'Real Housewives of New Jersey' an insult to all Italian-Americans
By Linda Stasi Now that the revolting Giudices — the sleaziest duo since Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer — have finally been indicted, isn't it time for the criminally bad "Real Housewives of New Jersey" to end up in the can as well? Well, actually it's well beyond the time. In fact, I will go the feds one better and say that even the p...
New Jersey BOCCE Invitational
New Jersey BOCCE Invitational will be held on June 21, 2014 at Colonial Park in Franklin, NJ. The start time is 10am. One of the founders of the New Jersey BOCCE Invitational, Frank Valanzola, was a lifelong HRC parishioner. Nine years ago, he & Pat DeChirico had the vision to start the Invitational with the mission of supporting worth...
Torneo di basket con italians in DC
Dopo aver passato qualche anno a giocare a calcio (e un po' a pallavolo), vogliamo dimostrare che abbiamo il talento necessario di cimentarci anche col basket! Nell'area di Washington ci sono diversi tornei ricreativi e, se c'è l'interesse necessario, vorremmo iscrivere una squadra Italians in DC ad uno di questi! Read more ...
AIFIC presents the Italian Film SUDestival September 19-25 in Washington DC
While two major International Film Festivals are taking place in Venice and Toronto, the American Initiative For Italian Culture (www.aific.org) based in Washington, DC, offers the first Film Festival entirely dedicated to the Italian Cinema, called Italian Film SUDestival, September 19-24, 2014, at West End Cinema. The name SUDest...
Chazz Palminteri to Bring A BRONX TALE to MPAC, 10/17
Chazz Palminteri stars in "A Bronx Tale," his acclaimed one-man show that launched him to fame, at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, Friday, October 17 at 8 pm. Tickets are $49-69. Written and performed by Chazz Palminteri, A Bronx Tale tells the story of Calogero Anello, a young boy from a working class family who gets involved in the worl...
The Italian roots of Pittsburgh Steelers QB Bruce Gradkowski
When Bruce Gradkowski made his first start for the Oakland Raiders back in November 2009, the tweets and the e-mails started coming. Jewish fans came up to him constantly and assumed he was Jewish. It turned out Bruce Gradkowski is not Jewish. Bruce has a Polish mother & an Italian father. The 31-year-old is yet another Pittsburgh...
It's On Your Mark, Set, Go at the Italian Heritage Festival 5K
It was ready, set, go Saturday morning at the 15th Annual Italian Heritage Festival 5K. Even the rain couldn't hold back the determined runners. Registration was at 7 in the morning, with the race kicking off at 8:30 a.m. The starting line was at Byard-Mercer Pharmacy on Main Street. The course went throughout Glen Elk. All in all, the cou...
Bristol Riverside Theatre stages 'Cooking With the Calamari Sisters'
In her 1987 bestseller "Beloved," Toni Morrison described one of the benefits of having a sister as "sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings, more thrilling than understanding could ever be." That's pretty much the plot of "Cooking with the Calamari Sisters," a comic extravaganza playing through S...
The National Italian American Foundation 2013 Photo Contest
The National Italian American Foundation 2013 Photo Contest is now accepting submissions. The topic is: Italianità ...The Italian spirit or essence; ItaliannessThe photo contest is open to amateurs, shutterbugs and professionals. Submit only one photo per person/entrant. If you submit multiple entries, we will consider only the first photo received...
Night of Italian Opera - October 25, 2014 at 07:30 pm
The National Chamber Ensemble, together with the EMBASSY OF ITALY and the ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE present NIGHT OF ITALIAN OPERA! Enjoy a glorious night of instrumental music, arias and duets with opera stars soprano YANA EMINOVA and baritone ANTON BELOV. Some of the exciting operatic music of the evening will include duets from great o...