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Peak Performances will introduce American audiences to The Sisters Macaluso (La sorelle Macaluso), from Sicilian theatrical innovator Emma Dante. The institution has dedicated this season to works by women creators, and The Sisters Macaluso is not only a wild work of physical theatre by a vital and prolific female visionary, but also one that focus...

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The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County will hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 at The Farm House at The Grand Colonial on Rt. 173 in Hampton, at 6:45 p.m. The guest speaker will be Susan LangSapora, one of two registered dieticians and nutritionists at Flemington Shop-Rite.  LangSapora provides free nutrition educ...

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Like many headliners getting ready to bring a new show to Atlantic City, Chris Botti is going to first carry out a long and time-honored tradition. He’s going to break the show in out-of-town, a common method — originated by Broadway producers more than a century ago — of testing the program out on an audience without having to worry about critics...

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Belmar is prepping for its fifth annual Feast of San Gennaro coming up on Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine. The event will begin on Saturday at 10 a.m. with a Mass celebrated in Italian at St. Rose Church, followed by the traditional procession of the statute of San Gennaro to its place of honor on Main Street. Then comes the eating and drinking,...

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Italian culture and cuisine will be celebrated during Belmar’s fifth annual Feast of San Gennaro, to be held on Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17. The three-block area of Main Street between 10th and 13th Avenues will serve as the festival’s hub from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both days. Attendees will enjoy a plethora of authentic Italian...

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The timing could not be more appropriate to talk about issues of exclusion and inclusion in society, the topic at the center of the next Inserra event presented with Arts & Cultural Programming | Peak Performances at the Kasser Theater. "Venice as a Metaphor of the World: Otherness, Immigration, and Religion in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice...

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The Hoboken Italian Festival takes over the Mile Square City's Sinatra Drive this weekend for it's 91st year. The event started last night and continues tonight with Freestyle Friday, which will include performances by Cynthia, Lisette Menendez, Aly Us, Fascination, Boriqua Posse and more. Performances on the main stage will continue tomorrow with...

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In one episode of HBO’s series The Sopranos, mob boss Tony Soprano takes his teenage son Anthony Jr. (“AJ”) to what is apparently inner-city Newark, New Jersey to show him that when the Italians came to New Jersey, one of the first things they did was build a beautiful church with their own hands, and very limited resources. While Tony walks and ta...

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The Italian American Police Society of New Jersey is proud to announce its 2017 Columbus Day Parade Honorees. Chief Phyllis Bindi of the East Orange Police Department will serve as the Parade Grand Marshal in both New Jersey and New York City Columbus Day Parades. Miss Jacqueline Schulz of Union High School will serve as the 2017 Columbus Day Parad...

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Scott Sanders' job is to bring unusual experiences to the most common American activity — spending a day at the mall. His first big effort on that front opens in Paramus on Saturday, in a 20,000 square foot tent in the parking lot of New Jersey’s largest shopping mall, Westfield Garden State Plaza. He is the man behind Up Close: Michelangelo’s Sist...

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