An Italian-American's attempts to pronounce a classic Great British sauce has left close to a million YouTube viewers in stitches. Pasquale Sciarappa, 75, of New Jersey, started uploading his recipe videos to YouTube in 2008 - wanting his passion for cooking to be experienced by the world, and not just his family.   Read more   Sourc...

On Tuesday, April 16, The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County held a presentation at the Grand Colonial in Asbury by Micheal Manella, about his search for his birth mother, which ended with finding her in Abuzzi, Italy. The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County is in its 34th year and has 160 members. Attending the prese...

Carlo's Bakery, the Hoboken-based enterprise made famous in the reality TV show "Cake Boss," will be opening a bake shop in town. "Morristown really is a family town. It represents everything we are about at the bakery," said Buddy Valastro, owner of Carlo's Bakery. "I've been to Morristown many times and have always thought it would be a perfect...

The Knights of Columbus Villa Marie Council No. 6342 of Absecon and Galloway is sponsoring its fourth annual Italian Festival, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27 at the Historic Smithville's Village Greene, Route 9, GallowayTownship.   Enjoy live Italian music featuring Jim Craine and the Altantic City All-Star Band, a game of bocce, delic...

Plan to begin the family's summer fun with four evenings of non-stop family entertainment and exciting rides starting June 4. The Church of the Assumption's annual St. Anthony Italian Family Feast returns for its 15th year and there will be more entertainers than in 2014, plus a new ride company has been engaged with all new and different rides thi...

by Thomas Barlas & Michelle Brunetti   In Hammonton, where almost half the population identifies as Italian-American, men from all kinds of professional backgrounds get together regularly to play a game that has been popular for centuries — Italian Fingers, also called Morra.   A group was playing Thursday night at Rocco's Town Ho...

Union County Freeholder Alexander Mirabella, who led the founding of the annual Union County Columbus Day celebration, is being honored by the Italian Tribune with the "Christopher Columbus Man of the Year Award," for his pride in his heritage and years of assisting others through his public service.   "It is presented to him with the deepes...

Italian Genealogy Research will be the topic when The Genealogical Society of the West Fields welcomes Anthony Festa at their meeting on Feb. 12, at the Westfield Memorial Library at 1 p.m.   Festa will outline basic Italian research in a three-part presentation. He will explore strategies for determining the home village in Italy from which...

di Francesco Salvatore Cagnazzo   PERCHE' SE NE PARLA Tutta l'America rende omaggio a Frank Sinatra, The Voice, nato da padre palermitano, esattamente, di Lercara Friddi, e da madre ligure, di Lumarzo. Il 12 dicembre il mito della musica avrebbe dovuto compiere 100 anni, ma le celebrazioni sono già ben avviate.   A New York c'è la mos...

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera), the house opera company of the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), will hold its fall Open House on Saturday, September 10, 2016. The annual event will be held at 44 Armory Street in Englewood, New Jersey at 2:00 p.m. Artistic Director Lucine Amara, a Met Opera luminary, invites t...