Jersey City readies for Columbus Day parade headed by Hoboken's 'Cake Boss'
TLC star Buddy 'Cake Boss' Valastro, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, and members of the Jersey City Police and Fire departments are among the hundreds who will march during the fifth annual Jersey City Columbus Day Parade tomorrow. The parade, which starts at 1 p.m., gathers residents, community organizations, civic groups and bands to cele...
Italian, U.S. gather at annual San Bortolo BBQ
Italian and American medical communities gathered for the annual San Bortolo barbecue held in the partially medieval cloister of the San Bortolo Hospital Sept. 25.The event, which continues a tradition started in 2004, renews the bonds and partnership between the U.S. Army Health Center on Caserma Ederle and their Italian counterparts. This year,...
Sayre UNICO holds 49th annual dinner dance
The Sayre chapter of UNICO held their 49th annual dinner dance on Saturday at Tomasso's Restaurant in Waverly. Those who donated the $100 ticket cost for the formal event were treated to dinner, live music by local band Splash, an open bar and dancing all night long. The group has been active in the Valley area since 1967 when a group...
It's official! Pope Francis announces 2015 visit to US
Pope Francis on Monday officially announced that he will visit the U.S. in September 2015, including a visit to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. "I wish to confirm, if God wills it, that in September of 2015 I will go to Philadelphia for the Eighth World Meeting of Families," he announced at Vatican City's Synod Hall Nov. 17...
Major new installation “Unframed – Ellis Island” now open
November marks the 60th anniversary of the closing of the Ellis Island immigration facility. From 1892 until the center's closing in 1954, the small island in New York harbor served as the official entry and processing point for over 12 million immigrants. It has been estimated that over 40 percent of Americans can trace their ancestry through Elli...
IT and US: From Philadelphia to Città della Pieve to The World!
WTI Magazine #49 2014 December, 10Author : Karen Lauria Saillant Translation by: "Tutti gli uomini sono per natura egualmente liberi e indipendenti." With light streaming through the majestic Palladio window of Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson turned these words of his Italian friend, Philip Mazzei, into the heart of The Declarati...
Mary Jo Gagliano (Author of "La Storia: Birmingham's Italian community")
It is known that millions of Italian immigrants went to the big cities on the two coast: but some of them spread all over the United States, looking for a place to start a new life. Those who went to smaller and less known places, in smaller but not less important communities, had an experience that is similar but at the same time different than th...
Gayle’s Italian Market opens in downtown Salem
I grew up in what I think is a typical Italian-American family, with big feasts on Sundays and holidays. My uncle owned and operated Gabrielle Macaroni, a company that made a variety of pastas with machinery he imported from Italy. He sold his pastas to several Italian specialty markets and restaurants. Going to the Italian market as a chi...
Jazz, gli italo-americani nella storia
Il jazz, è risaputo, nasce a New Orleans in Louisiana agli inizi del secolo; nasce dal ragtime (che si suonava fin dagli ultimi anni dell'800), dal blues, dagli spirituals, dalle ballate americane dell' '800, e infine dagli emigrati italiani e dai loro figli che avevano raggiunto New Orleans, che agli inizi del secolo era diventata un centro di rac...
Viaggio nella lingua italiana d'America di oggi e di ieri
Si avvicina il traguardo dell'Italian American Country tour, e siamo in procinto di toccare la terza e ultima costa del continente. La prima è stata, naturalmente, New York. La seconda New Orleans, approdo per molti emigrati che non videro mai Ellis Island, arrivando direttamente qui. L'ultima è San Francisco, che abbiamo preso via terra "navigando...
Italian beef sandwich shop lands in Addison, with support from Da Bears coach Mike Ditka
by Sarah Blaskovich You've probably heard us say that Austin restaurants seem to be infiltrating North Texas. (See Tacodeli, Torchy's Tacos, Uchi, Hopdoddy.) We're now seeing Chicago restaurants make their way here, too. Geno's East is reportedly heading to Arlington, and Al's Italian Beef just opened in Addison. Al's claims it's the crea...
A New Decade for ILICA, Making Italian Language and Culture Global
The Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance (ILICA) is a not for profit foundation dedicated to the promotion of the Italian language as an instrument of understanding and study of a culture in continuous evolution, directed at not only Americans of Italian origin, but all those who share an interest in learning the Italian language as a key to un...