N.J.'s best Italian restaurant: Is this really 'the world's best spaghetti'?
The sign at both Joe Italiano's Maplewood Inn locations — in Mays Landing and Hammonton — leaves no room for debate. "Home of the World's Best Spaghetti.'' The Hammonton restaurant is one of 40 semifinalists in our search for N.J.'s best Italian restaurant. We started with reader recommendations for 450 restaurants, all of which were...
New Jersey bus driver sings Italian to his passengers
Travelling through Trinton Falls, New Jersey, is typically boring at best but it certainly isn't the case if you're lucky enough to hop onto Mike Rabinowitz's bus. Rabinowitz, a classically trained opera singer and full-time bus driver who serenades senior citizens while he shuttles them to and from Seabrook Retirement Community, happily sings...
Andrea's hopes to meet challenge of competitive restaurant business
Andrea Maletta-Bussel has a clear picture of the type of eating establishment she wants "Andrea's'' to be. Now it is her challenge to make the West Mill Road restaurant that is named after her to meet the lofty goals she has set. "My vision is a really pretty place to go in the area,'' Maleta-Bussel said. "There is nothing else around...
Glossy Scarpetta is eager to please but serves fine ingredients with little finesse
by Craig LaBan I spin through the revolving door into Scarpetta and land with a thud in a knot of patrons all dressed in black. This was a corporate posse in stilettos and mock turtlenecks, ready to spend big at Philly's latest name-brand Italian import from New York. But they were clogging the door near the bar, oblivious to others as they rattle...
Michelangelo, un'emozione senza confini
Negli Stati Uniti una mostra dedicata al grande artista italiano, con 26 disegni provenienti dalla 'Casa Buonarroti', si aprirà in febbraio al 'Muscarelle Museum' di Williamsburg in Virginia e poi in aprile si trasferirà al 'Museum of Fine Arts' di Boston. Un avvenimento di assoluta importanza che negli USA non si verificava da decenni. 'Sacro e Pr...
Italian center to host opening ceremony today
After five years operating out of the Buena Vista Senior Club, the Italian Cultural Foundation of South Jersey will cut the ribbon today to celebrate its new home on Wheat Road. The 3,500-square-foot building, at 468 Wheat Road on the boundary with Vineland, will be the new hosting grounds for the foundation's educational and cultural acti...
Second annual Festa Italiana Frederick
Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County is excited to announce their 2nd Annual 'Festa Italiana Frederick' to be held on May 17th at Rose Hill Manor in Frederick, Maryland. The festival will feature a variety of delicious homemade Italian foods, desserts, beverages, a wine and beer garden, musical entertainment, a Spaghetti Sauce Cook-Off, ki...
Ricerca, Lorenzin: defiscalizzazione investimenti come in Usa
Il ministro della Salute, Beatrice Lorenzin, ha detto che proporrà di introdurre in Italia la defiscalizzazione totale degli investimenti sulla ricerca scientifica come avviene negli Stati Uniti. Parlando con i giornalisti durante una visita ufficiale di quattro giorni negli Stati Uniti, il ministro ha detto che inserirà la proposta nella...
Della Notte site in Little Italy slated for 16-story apartment tower
A Baltimore developer is planning to replace the shuttered Della Notte restaurant at Eastern Avenue and President Street with a 15-story apartment tower in the next two years. The tower will include retail on the first floor and developers have told the Little Italy Community Organization that the building will have between 150 and 240 apartment u...
Grace & Pat's: New Italian on East Passyunk
Mike Giammarino will have quite an audience for the premiere on Sunday, April 26 of his Grace & Pat's, a family friendly ristorante at 1533 S. 11th St. (215-336-3636), two doors from Fond and across from the Singing Fountain on Passyunk Square. Sunday happens to be Flavors of the Avenue, when thousands of people are expected to descend...
Job Opening For An Italian Teacher At Morris Catholic High School
Morris Catholic High School, located in Denville, NJ, seeks an Italian teacher for the 2015-2016 school year. Qualified candidates will possess a Bachelor's degree or equivalent; a Master's degree is preferred. Candidates should also be certified or be in the process of acquiring certification. The ideal candidate will also have the abilit...
Italian-themed supermarket wants to buy Ramsey Pathmark
by Joan Verdon A Long Island grocery chain that designs its stores to remind shoppers of Little Italy or the Arthur Avenue section of the Bronx wants to move into the soon-to-close Pathmark store in Ramsey. If the bid is approved, Ramsey could become home to the first New Jersey outpost of Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace, a s...