Clark UNICO chapter holds annual kickoff dinner
The Clark UNICO Chapter held its annual Kickoff dinner at Bistro 1051, Wednesday, January 25th. The annual meeting/dinner updates all members of the upcoming events for the year, swearing in of new members, review of next year's Italian feast and a guest speaker. This year's guest speaker was Dr. Frank DeFrank, Unico Nationals 2nd Vice President. D...
Vic DiBitetto Returns To Newton Theatre
The Newton Theatre welcomes back comedian Vic DiBitetto on Friday, May 5, 2017 at 8:00pm. DiBitetto, known as The Italian Hurricane, is one of the hottest stand-up comedians in the country. An incredibly powerful performer, DiBitetto churns energy, honesty and humanity into nonstop laughter at a frenetic pace. He’s been called a cross between Rodne...
Ocean County Freeholders Want to Keep Columbus Day Alive in New Jersey
In the face of controversy during recent years of what many people consider to be major atrocities against Native Americans surrounding Columbus Day, a state and national holiday that reveres Christopher Columbus as a national hero who discovered America, the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders has declared its support for a state Senate resol...
Temple honors 2016 Global Philadelphia award recipient
Italian culture is embedded into the daily lives of Philadelphians, whether they know it or not. “We are now in Center City, which is a translation of centro cittá,” said Andrea Canepari from his office that overlooks Independence Hall, Washington Square and the bustling intersection of 6th and Walnut streets. “It’s an Italian and European concept....
The Other Language of Love
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” The previous quote, stated by Giuseppe Verdi, a renowned opera composer, exemplifies how much of an international treasure the country of Italy is. From the long canals of Venice to the white sand beaches of Sicily to the ancient architecture of Rome, the splendors of Italy are abundant all over the...
Behind the scenes of Botticelli at the Muscarelle
The upstairs galleries of the Muscarelle Museum echo with emptiness, the rich red walls bare and the space scattered with hollow glass cases. Not for long. In a matter of weeks, the elevator doors will start to empty thousands of people into galleries containing 26 works by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli and his colleagues. Once inside, gazing u...
Tom Maoli's Celebrity Motor Car Adds Maserati of Bergen County to its Dealership Group
Tom Maoli, DEO/Dealer Principal of the Celebrity Motor Car Company, has announced the acquisition of Maserati of Bergen County to his Celebrity Motor Car dealership group. The addition of the Route 17, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey dealership gives Maoli his second Maserati dealership in the state. The new franchise joins the growing number of C...
New Jersey Festival Orchestra Presents Two Performances Of La Traviata
Prepare to have your heart touched, troubled, and transformed in a way that only great opera can do and join us on Saturday March 4th at 7:00pm at the Presbyterian Church in Westfield and March 5th at Drew University in Madison, when the New Jersey Festival Orchestra offers a full presentation of Verdi’s La Traviata, sung in Italian with supertitle...
Montclair Gets A New Sister City; New Townwide Speed Limit Hits A Snag
Pomp and ceremony reigned at the Montclair Township Council’s first regular meeting of 2017. The January 24 session began with a celebration of the beginning of the “sister city” relationship between Montclair and Aquilonia, Italy, the resolution for which having been passed unanimously by the council as its first order of business for the night. ...
East Hanover's Pannullo, Hanover Park Regional's Grossi to be honored
Mayor Joseph Pannullo has been named Man of the Year by the Italian-American Police Society of New Jersey. Joining him at the society’s annual benefit gala dinner dance on March 25 to accept the honor will be Hanover Park Regional High School Superintendent Carol Grossi who was named Italian-American Educator of the Year. “It’s an incredible hono...
Botticelli Venus Painting on View for First Time in United States
One of only two of Botticelli’s paintings of an isolated Venus will be on view for the first time in the United States in Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting Between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities, a major international loanexhibition organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Va., in partners...
Corona d'Italia to accept scholarship applications
Members of Corona d'Italia Lodge 807 is ready to accept applications for its annual scholarship. Group members discussed the application forms at its meeting Jan. 11 at Pizza Joe's. The lodge annually issues two $500 scholarships to a child or grandchild of active members of Corona d'Italia or Sons of Italy 608. Applications will be available at th...