Close

Festa Italiana Chicago will celebrate its 12th anniversary on Taylor Street from Aug. 18 to 20. Hosted by the University Village Association and run by StarEvents, the three-day fest will feature food and beverage booths, live entertainment on three stages, Italian dance performances and classes, cooking demonstrations, a wine garden, and an Italia...

1735

Ciao a tutti! We are honoring our Italian and Italian-American veterans at the Festa Italiana Portland opening ceremonies this year. We need to find Italians who served in the Italian Armed Forces and Italian Americans who served in the American Armed Forces. Please help us get in contact with these special heroes! If you or a friend or a family me...

1587

The Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish summer festival will run Wednesday to Sunday at the church grounds, 381 Robbins Ave. Joe Merlo, festival chairman, said the event will include amusement rides, games, bingo and musical entertainment. He said the event will feature a variety of food including pizza, twists, cheese puffs, sausage sandwiches and desse...

1225

Every summer, thousands of New Yorkers flock to Brooklyn and witness the lifting of the Giglio: a 4-ton, 72-foot statue that is carried through the crowd by 150 men. There’s nothing quite like it. This year, the statue — bearing the likeness of St. Paulinus — will be hoisted and lugged down North Eighth and Havemeyer Streets to North Tenth Street i...

1284

There are few traditions more sacred in Westerly’s large Italian-American community than the annual celebration honoring Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Next Sunday, on the 89th annual observance of the Mount Carmel procession, families will gather to sip homemade wine and feast upon soupy, stuffed peppers, and homemade fried dough after marching in the...

1677

This town of less than 15,000 residents expects to see a surge of about 70,000 visitors this week during the 142nd Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festival. The weeklong festival, which started Monday but officially begins Tuesday, is billed as the “longest-running Italian festival in the U.S.” and is organized by the independent nonprofit Our Lady of...

1252

A feast, a statue, and over one hundred years of tradition brought crowds out to the streets of Williamsburg on Sunday, July 9 to see the first lift of an eighty-foot-tall statue of Saint Paolino. The 130th Giglio Feast, which is 40 years older than and second in size only to Little Italy’s San Gennaro Festival, is hosted by Our Lady of Mount Carme...

1729

The Feast of San Rocco di Simbario at St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church in Chicago is sponsored by the Society of San Rocco di Simbario. It features a 9 a.m. procession with candle houses and a 10:30 a.m. Mass on Aug. 13, followed by a procession, the benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and kissing of the holy relic of San Rocco, and a buffet di...

3191

The Girard Mount Carmel Festival will be Wednesday through July 16 at the Italian Fraternal Home grounds, 33 W. Wilson Ave. The festival will include a parade 11 a.m. July 16 from IFH to St. Rose Parish with Mass at 11:30 a.m. and a ceremony at 1:15 p.m. at Girard Cemetery. Fireworks by Zambelli will be 11 p.m. July 16. Musical entertainment includ...

1451

After years of hosting The Galbani® Buffalo Italian Heritage Festival in North Buffalo, the event is moving to a new location at the Buffalo Outer Harbor. This is a real game changer for the festival, which originated on the city’s West Side (on Connecticut Street).  The “Italian Festival”, considered the nation’s second largest street festival, wi...

1338