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by Virginia Rohan Francis Albert Sinatra may have had a love-hate relationship with his home state — the hate prevailing for years at a time — but that didn't dampen the affection his North Jersey fans had for the Hoboken-born-and-bred singer, whose voice touched their hearts at a formative time in their lives.   Seventeen years after his d...

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The Fairfield Public Library, 261 Hollywood Ave., will hold free Italian classes for children and adults starting on Wednesday, Jan. 8. Children will meet from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. and adults will meet from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Classes are separate, one only being for children and the others being for adults.Fairfield Library's Italian classes for child...

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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...

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Sparta — Sparta UNICO is sponsoring the Zerbini Family Circus on Sunday, Sept.20 at Mohawk Avenue School. The big top will be erected on the field in front of the school for two performances on Sunday at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Tickets are available at Rita's Ice in the Sparta Theatre Center. Advance tickets are $10; children 3 and under a...

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by Dan Nosowitz   "Don't eat gabagool, Grandma," says Meadow Soprano on an early episode of The Sopranos, perhaps the most famous depiction of Jersey Italian culture in the past few decades. "It's nothing but fat and nitrates."   The pronunciation of "gabagool," a mutation of the word "capicola," might surprise a casual viewer, a...

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By Suzanne Marino   Rosie Bongiovanni was surrounded by her family Sunday, Feb. 21 as she celebrated her 102nd birthday. While her family and friends at Linwood Care Center sang Happy Birthday, she preferred to sing for them and sat smiling through a rendition of "Parlami d'amore," which translated means "Speak to Me of Love."  ...

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By Emily Everson The West Essex High School Student Council recently hosted an Italian feast for support staff in the High School Cafeteria. Aides, secretaries and maintenance staff feasted on meatballs, penne vodka and pumpkin pie.   The Student Council also honored Salvatore Provenzano, who works in maintenance/plumbing, as the Support St...

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Teresa Sengel, World Language Department Chair at Mount Saint Mary Academy (MSMA) in Watchung, announced on May 31 that during October and May, the school's Italian Club sponsored a Rita's Italian Ice sale which yielded over $800 for the Mercy Girl Effect.   According to Sister Lee Ann Amico, MSMA Student Government Director and Student Cent...

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Eggplants, artichokes, corn, tomatoes, peaches, apples, melons. Boxes of them lined the wall of my parents' garage in northern New Jersey. On warm summer afternoons in the 1960s, their rich, sweet aroma wafted out to the driveway, where I'd be playing stickball or drawing hopscotch courts with chalk on the hot blacktop.   My dad was a fruit...

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The Union County Summer Arts Festival concert series continues this coming Wednesday evening July 27, with Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens taking the stage at 7:30p.m.   The free concert series, presented by the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholder, and sponsored at Echo Lake Park by ConnectOne Bank will take place at Echo Lake Park in Mou...

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