La Festa raises the Italian flag on Courthouse Square
Some of the board members, committee volunteers and civic officials associated with La Festa Italiana raise the Italian flag on Courthouse Square in downtown Scranton, site of the festival to be held Labor Day Weekend beginning this Friday, Aug. 31, at 4 p.m. and continuing through Monday, Sept. 3 until 8 p.m. For more information, the entertainmen...
New directions: Italian Contemporary Art in the United States
Italy is synonymous with history. We visit Rome and Naples and see remnants of an ancient civilization. But Italy has a modern side too, that comprises of some exceptional contemporary artists that art lovers should have on their radar. On the occasion of the International Day of Italian Contemporary Art, promoted by AMACI, the Embassy of Italy and...
Verismo Opera's Bring The Family Opens Season With Discounts For NORMA
The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, the house opera company of the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), opens in September the Bring the Family to the Opera. This well-received program introduces children and the extended family to live, fully staged performances of grand opera, as the composer intended. On September 13, 14, and 15,...
St. Bart's 2018 Labor Day Italian Festival Schedule Announced
The St. Bart's Italian Festival is an annual tradition in Scotch Plains that bids farewell to summer and kicks off the fall calendar. Founded in 1974, the festival features live music, amusement park rides, games, and, of course, great food, including pizza, pasta, clams, mussels, calzones, and the festival's famous zeppoles. Additionally, there ar...
What is Pecorino, and other answers to questions about 4 Italian whites
The mission of the Italian Trade Agency's campaign, "Italian Wine - Taste the Passion," is to educate consumers of the breadth, diversity and quality of Italian wines. Its aim is to increase awareness of the many excellent Italian wine varietals and wine-producing regions. The agency sent me four wines to sample: Masut de Rive Pinot Grigio, La Capr...
Easton's San Placido Society celebrates 100 years of tradition next month
Every year in Easton, a dozen men from the Religious Society of San Placido hoist a statue of St. Anthony onto a float festooned with flowers — altogether weighing about 1,000 pounds — and take a 3-mile trek around the city’s South Side. Every year it gets a little harder as society members age, leaving fewer men capable of parading their patron sa...
ISDA Shines: Dramatic Growth Drives Bright Future for Italian Americans
Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA) is making history with its dramatic growth. Hundreds of delegates gathered in Buffalo, N.Y. at ISDA’s Biennial Convention last week, and were the first to hear the news: National President Basil Russo unveiled plans for three lodges — one in New York City and two in New Jersey — that will become new corn...
Lombardi Pizza in Martinsville channels Italian cooking
When Pete Lombardi, owner and founder of Lombardi Pizza Co., studied cooking and baking at Baltimore International College and hotel restaurant management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, he wasn’t planning on one day cooking up Neapolitan pies in the then-unknown-to-him Martinsville section of Bridgewater. Instead, the Edison resident planned on...
Mill Creek Announces Start of Preleasing at Modera Sedici
Mill Creek Residential, a leading multifamily investor and operator specializing in premier apartment communities across the U.S., today announced the start of preleasing at Modera Sedici, a luxury apartment community located on the esteemed grounds of the former Italian Embassy. Situated along venerable 16th Street in the nation's capital, the com...
Eagles long snapper Rick Lovato can flex like a gymnast and build a mean Italian hoagie. And, no, no relation to Demi. | Marcus Hayes
As a kid, Rick Lovato was a fine pitcher and a good passer, but he was always too big to play quarterback. His teams needed him on the offensive line. Lovato knew he'd be too light to play lineman in the NFL, so he took his big frame and strong arm and become a long-snapper. Now 6-2 and 249 pounds, Lovato replaced magical fan favorite Jon Dorenbo...
WV Italian Heritage Festival host 30th annual pasta cook-off before festivities begin
By providing decades of rich history, food and culture wise, West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival kicked off it’s 30th straight year of the annual pasta cook-off. From chefs, to tasters and even little helpers – people from all over the state came together Saturday morning to enjoy a great pasta meal. “You know, we get 7 to 800 people here today...
Filomena: Abundance, Togetherness and Celebration
On May 23, Filomena Ristorante could be said to have turned 35 years old. According to owner JoAnna Filomena, however, that’s not the true age of her landmark Georgetown restaurant, since its construction took a little over two and a half years. “I’m already past that,” she says. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t looking back to where she started. No...