Robert De Niro to Direct the World Premiere Musical A Bronx Tale at Paper Mill Playhouse
New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the lineup of productions set for its 2015-16 season. The season will open with Bandstand, a world-premiere musical, featuring music by Richard Oberacker and a book and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor. Read more Source: http://www.theatermania.com/
UNICO honors nursing student
Stefanie DeSimone has gained recognition for an act of heroism she did last summer in which she helped save a man’s life on a plane. DeSimone was traveling home from Italy with her cousin when a man suddenly collapsed in the aisle without a pulse to be detected. Using basic instincts, quick thinking and skills learned in the Seton Hall nursing prog...
Joe Buscaino L.A. City Councilman shares his Italian roots
Joe Buscaino, L.A. City Council Member 15th District, is a first-generation Italian American whose parents immigrated from Sicily in the 1960s. Joe was an LAPD officer for 15 years before running for L.A. City Council in 2012. He represents 250,000 residents from San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City, Harbor Gateway and Watts. R...
An Italian maestro: Lino Tagliapietra in conversation
April 1, 2015, Wednesday 2:00 PMPhiladelphia Museum of Art - Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 26th StPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19130 Lino Tagliapietra in conversation with Elisabeth Agro, The Nancy M. McNeil Associate Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts In the late 1970s, noted Italian glass artist Lino...
Vetri makes two offers for pizzeria sites in D.C.
The Vetri Family restaurant group has put in offers to bring its pizzeria concept to not one, but two Washington, D.C., locations. Two Pizzeria Vetri locations will be opening in the D.C. metro area. The leases aren’t signed yet, but they’re expected to open by the end of the fourth quarter this year or the first quarter of 2016, said Jeff Benjamin...
Pompeii to host Festa della Repubblica
The Comitato Tri Colore Italiane nel Mondo is inviting the entire community to bring its Italian flags and take part in the Festa della Repubblica on May 31 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii in Chicago. Chicago's celebration of the unification of Italy will begin with an 11 a.m. Mass, followed by a procession with the Sicilian Band of Chicago t...
Anacapri Italian Kitchen celebrates 25 years
The story of Anacapri Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar is a romantic one. It's the story Giuseppe and Maria Zuozo, a young couple who fell in love with the burgeoning neighborhood of Pinecrest during a January 1990 vacation and decided to make a life for themselves there. After returning to their home in New Jersey, they sold their share in their re...
Energica Ego, la moto elettrica che da Modena conquista l’America
di Alessandro Frau Energica Ego è la prima moto sportiva elettrica costruita in Italia. È il frutto del lavoro e dell'esperienza, più che trentennale del Gruppo CRP, un'azienda modenese che da qualche mese è sbarcata negli Stati Uniti ottenendo le certificazioni NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) ed EPA (Environmental P...
The Italian Heritage Society of Indiana FREE Lecture Series PRESENTS THE CENTRAL REGION OF ITALY -LE MARCHE
Sunday, May 31 - 2 pmNora Branch Library - 8625 N Guilford, Indianapolis 46060 The Cultural Committee of the Italian Heritage Society of Indiana has engaged with local speakers to offer a compelling and educational series of talks on Italian culture, history and art by focusing on different regions. Le Marche is in the central region...
Actor Joe Mantegna Talks About His Devotion to Padre Pio
by Zoe Romanowsky Actor and film maker, Joe Mantegna, spoke to Aleteia about how he became a spokesman for the Saint Pio Foundation, and about his connection to Padre Pio. As an Italian-American who still has many family members living close to San Giovanni Rotondo, the town where Saint Pio lived and died, Mantegna feels a sense of provide...
Scenes for Andrea Doria film to be shot in Detroit area
by Corey Williams Pierette Simpson and her grandmother were dancing in the Andrea Doria's social hall, celebrating their near-arrival with other immigrants to a new life in America when the impact knocked everyone off their feet. She remembers the ship rising up and then leaning to one side. It would later sink into the Atlantic Ocean...
Abruzzo e Molise in vetrina al Westchester Italian American Cultural Center
Per un mese e mezzo, dal prossimo ottobre, le eccellenze di Abruzzo e Molise saranno in vetrina a New York presso il Westchester Italian American Cultural Center (WICCNY). "Abruzzo & Molise, Yesterday and Today 2015": arte, cultura, tradizioni, artigianato, enogastronomia, rassegne espositive: il meglio delle due regioni, che fino al 1963 sono...