Maria Rosina "Rose" Madonna
Maria Rosina "Rose" (Spadea Anello) Madonna, 89 of Lancaster, PA passed away on Thursday, January 9, 2020 after a brief illness. Born in Gasperina, Italy she was the daughter of the late Maria Teresa (Qualtiere) and Nicola Spadea Anello. She was married to the late Joseph Madonna for over 58 years. Rose was a devout Catholic and a member of St. Ann...
Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding Returns to Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort
Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding is returning by popular demand to the Strand Event Center at Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort Friday, February 14, and Saturday, February 15. Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding is an off-Broadway dinner show staged as a festive family affair! Filled with wit and nostalgia, the entertainers use interactive and improvisational comedy to involve...
Discovering the Baroque beauty of a revived Naples
On a trip to this thrumming city about 15 years ago, art historian Michael Stoughton hoped to visit a famous Baroque church in the Sanita neighborhood. An Italian friend said no — the area was too dangerous. If you must, the friend added, then take a taxi and make the driver wait for you. Today that same neighborhood attracts thousands of tourists...
Five reasons to dine at Solaire’s Finestra this February
Solaire Resort and Casino welcomes 2020 with the latest offering in its Culinary Masters Series, a program that brings to Solaire some of the world’s most renowned chefs. The Culinary Masters Series has famously flown in the likes of Japanese three-Michelin Star chef Jun Yukimura and Singapore’s top celebrity chef Justin Quek, to give guests the ch...
Santini Sr. was a star
Joe Santini Sr.'s “15 minutes of fame” was more like 30 minutes in television time, but for those living in Lockport's prominently-Italian “West End,” it translated into a lifetime of respect and admiration. Most of us still didn't have color television sets when Joe first appeared on the famed local bowling program, “Beat the Champ.” Up through th...
Trivia Night with prizes!!! Italian Geniuses & Colorful Personalities
The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere presents: Italian Trivia Night! With Carla Gambescia. Tuesday, Jan 28th, 2020 at 7:00pm. 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301. The winner will receive two $500 gift cards for any Ciclismo Classico 2020 cycling and walking tours in Italy and beyond the “Boot”. Join us for a fun interactive even...
Study finds E.coli link to heart attacks
An Italian-led study has found a link between the Escherichia coli bacteria and heart attacks. According to the research conducted on 150 people and led by Francesco Violi of Rome's Umberto I university hospital, the bacteria was found in the circulatory system of patients and in the blocked arteries that caused the heart attacks. The study paper h...
Joe Pesci earns his third Oscar nomination with quiet menace for ‘The Irishman’
Joe Pesci is known for volatile, explosive performances in such films as Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” and “Casino,” along with more antic, comic turns in the “Lethal Weapon” and “Home Alone” movies and “My Cousin Vinny.” So, the still menace of Pesci’s performance in Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” playing Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino as a m...
C. Robert Sarcone, former senator and gubernatorial candidate, dies at 94
Former State Sen. C. Robert Sarcone (R-Newark), the former Minority Leader of the New Jersey State Assembly and a candidate for the GOP nomination for Governor in 1977, died on January 12. He was 94. A talented trial lawyer and charismatic speaker, Sarcone began his political career in Newark’s North Ward and served as an assistant prosecutor in E...
Days of remembrance of the victims of the holocaust: “We have been separated”. Words and music from Auschwitz
Friday January 17, at 7PM. Georgetown University – Lohrfink Auditorium, Hariri Building West Road, Washington DC 20007. The Italian Cultural Society, in collaboration with US-Italy Global Affairs Forum and The Department of Italian of Georgetown University, presents the duo Heartstrings performing words and music from Auschwitz “Ci hanno divisi” (...
Federico Fellini at 100
January 16–May 21, 2020. BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley CA. Federico Fellini (1920–1993) was a masterful artist of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire. A central figure in the international art cinema movement that took off in the mid-1950s, he earned some of film’s highest honors, winning Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for La...
Santa Maria della Concezione Crypts
In 1775, the Marquis de Sade wrote of it, “I have never seen anything more striking.” Granted, the crypt was to his tastes. Mark Twain wrote about it in his 1869 book Innocents Abroad. When Twain asked one of the monks what would happen when he died, the monk responded, “We must all lie here at last.” And lie there they do. Some 4,000 Capuchin fria...