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The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County will hold their monthly meerting on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 6:45 at Mountain View Chalet on Route 173 in Pattenburg. Guest speaker will be member Luisa Locascio Matarazzo, who will speak about her recent book, "Between 2 Worlds Sicily/America, a Journey Through Mytth and Reality," and about her tr...

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Years before a tragic earthquake reduced much of the city to rubble, I was invited to L’Aquila in the Italian province of Abruzzo to take part in, of all things, a festival of Canadian music. Organized in part through the good offices of Toronto artists manager Ann Summers Dossena, the festival logically featured a number of Canadian artists, among...

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When: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute - 500 N Michigan, #1450 - Organized by : Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Entrance : Free This series of three lectures looks at the history of representation in Italian art from the unrealistic organizations of space in medieval paintiing and the recovery of...

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‟A fun and fascinating read sprinkled with humor, history and the conundrums of living in a foreign speaking country.” That’s how author E.C. Murray describes ‟An American Family in Italy: Living la dolce vita without permission.” This light and lively book, released in July, describes the adventures of Paul Spadoni, an Italo-Americano who lives in...

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In this episode of The Italian American Podcast episode, I speak with Dan Yaccarino, an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator with more than thirty books to his credit. We’re going to talk specifically about one of his books called All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel. The children’s book details his...

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Imagine 600,000 Italians in America, good honest hardworking people. Imagine them all of a sudden branded as enemy aliens, discriminated, questioned, moved to internment camps. Imagine that they are prohibited to work, to live in their own homes, to travel more than 5 miles. Imagine them forced to prove their innocence, for a charge they don't even...

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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. By David Schwartz. Basic Books; 451 pages; $35 and £27.99. JUST before daybreak on July 16th 1945 Enrico Fermi lay down in the open desert of New Mexico. At 05:30, the world’s first nuclear explosion took place ten miles (16km) away. He counted off the...

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Benedetto Croce in Texas (Moretti&Vitali) è un delizioso libricino di Alessandro Carrera, direttore di Studi italiani all'Università di Houston. A dispetto del titolo, non tratta della filosofia di Croce ma racconta - come dice il più fedele sottotitolo - «Storie di filosofia italiana in Nord America». E del resto la storia inizia proprio con Croce...

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When Italian film star Sophia Loren arrived to America, she easily managed to impress two men: Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant. The trio appeared in 1957’s action drama “The Pride and the Passion,” which would lead to a real-life affair off-screen between co-stars Loren and Grant. “Frank Sinatra was very friendly. They became friends and treated her w...

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January 13, 2018 (Saturday) 5:45 - 7:30 pm Sponsored by The Italian American Writers Association. Cornelia St. Cafe - 29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan. Admission: $10 (includes one drink); open to the public. Contact: Maria Lisella 718-777-1178 marialisella@aol.com Joseph Salvatore, author of the story collection To Assume A Pleasing Shape, is a frequ...

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