Close

by Owen Satran   Montclair, your prayers have been answered! Just what downtown Montclair needed — another Italian restaurant!   Well, maybe not, but before you roll your eyes, check the dish on this new spot. The restaurant is headed by renowned chef Michael Cetrulo, whose impressive pedigree suggests that Ristorante Scala Del Nonna...

8233

Over the past 15 years or so, visionary director Romeo Castellucci has blossomed into a star of Europe's theater festivals and prestigious institutions with largely plotless, large-scale shows that operate at a dizzyingly high conceptual and technical level, and are so abstract that they become strangely accessible (you can project anything onto th...

2816

by Eric Kiefer   Essex County resident Benjamin Piazza, known locally as "Father Ben," passed away on Sept. 5. As a clergyman, Piazza worked with congregations in Caldwell, Newark, Jersey City, Montclair, Wayne and Morristown. He was 92-years-old.   The following obituary comes courtesy of Codey & Jones Funeral Home: "M...

817

The Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University is pleased to invite you to the Spring 2016 Inserra Chair calendar of cultural programs and educational initiatives in Italian and Italian American Studies. The calendar includes round tables, exhibits, as well as contests and international projects for students...

1281

Pizza is a touchy subject for those that live in New Jersey. Everybody has their favorite place to grab a slice, relax and eat the food that no one does better than New Jersey. Within every town in the state, streets are dotted with Italian­American businesses...

731

What are the cultural values that underlie Italian businesses in the metropolitan areas of New York and New Jersey? What class-related projects have the ability to demonstrate to students the professional relevance of Italian Studies today? In Fall 2014, students at Montclair State University had the unique opportunity to participate in a project e...

1227

Dancing A Film: Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers Inspires Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.This multi-part program embraces two events on campus revolving around the dance performance ROCCO at the Kasser Theater of Montclair State University (Feb. 12-15, 2015): a screening and discussion of Luchino Visconti's 1960 classic film Rocco and H...

724

The documentary MEN OF THE CLOTH will have its New Jersey premiere on May 4, 2014, at the third annual Montclair Film Festival. The film by Vicki Vasilopoulos is an inspiring portrait of three Italian master tailors. It had its World Premiere at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the U.S.   The men's lifestyle magazine A &...

851

The Cen­ter for Ital­ian & Ital­ian Amer­i­can Cul­ture & The Cagliari Club of NY invite you to an evening of deli­cious food and great entertainment! Come to Trum­pets Jazz Club & Restau­rant, 6 Depot Square, Mont­clair, for a Cul­tural Encounter! MONDAY, MAY 11TH   COOKING CLASS — 6:00 PM. Pre­pare mal­lored­dus(typ­i­cal...

1146

by Teresa Politano   Given the swarms of Italian restaurants in this state, and the fierce loyalty they inspire, it might be fair to classify a significant portion of the job of a Jersey restaurant critic as waxing poetic over one meatball or another. Which is no small writing challenge, waxing poetic over a meatball. Of course, one mig...

1129