Lecture "Tasso, Monteverdi and the Arts" at the National Gallery of Art - January 25, 2015 at 6:00 pm
The National Gallery of Art, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and Georgetown University, presents Tasso, Monteverdi, and the Arts. Lecturers Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Peter Lukehart (National Gallery of Art CASVA) will present Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered and the works of art it inspired....
From e Ice promuovono le mele italiane nel New Jersey
La collaborazione tra il Consorzio FROM Italian Alps e l'ufficio di New York di ICE Agenzia continua con una promozione avviata lo scorso sabato 14 febbraio presso la catena di supermercati Corrado's, nello stato del New Jersey. A due anni dalla firma del protocollo commerciale tra Italia e Stati Uniti, il Consorzio FROM continua le attivi...
Celebrate Columbus Day Weekend with an evening of romantic Italian music
by Pamela Dollak Many are looking forward to this three-day weekend that commemorates Italian-born Christopher Columbus discovering our fair land. And this is one of the weekend's best bets — spend part of this holiday weekend celebrating with another Italian Christopher — Christopher Macchio, a classically trained Italian-American tenor who will...
Hoboken is Sinatra's kinda town: Take a short ferry in New York, New York to the charming birthplace of the renowned singer
By Harry Mount Frank Sinatra may have had a thick 'Noo Yawk' accent and sung the city's most famous song, New York, New York. But, in fact, he was a New Jersey boy, born in the pretty little town of Hoboken a century ago. It's just across the Hudson River from Manhattan's skyscrapers. Take a $7 ferry from Wall Street to Hoboken...
Bocce tournament generates drama and excitement
Twenty four players formed 5 teams to contend for the Fall Classic tournament championship. Captains Vince Colasante, Michele Buono, Cesidio Pellegrini, Fred Rossi, and Biago D'urso selected teams that competed in a double round robin round. The two best teams from the round robin played in a best of three championship round. The Drama began to bui...
Winner of Hoboken Chili Cook-Off offers Italian Delight
The 7th annual Hoboken Chili and Home Brewing Contest was a foodie's paradise. From vegetarian chili to pulled pork chili to Nebraska chili to the winning batch of Italian inspired chili, this was a non-profit event with plenty of heat. To quench that sizzle were numerous home brewed beers, happily shared to the over 21 crowd, while the undera...
Constantino Brumidi: The Italian-American Artist Who Decorated the U.S. Capitol
Constantino Brumidi: not exactly a household name, and yet he was the man responsible for the decoration of several rooms and walls of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. in the 19th century. Brumidi's chief work, the allegorical fresco The Apotheosis of Washington, covers the interior of the dome in the Rotunda, described as the Capitol's "symbol...
Red gravy traditionalists, innovators vie in S. Phila. cook-off
Purists might view what happened Sunday evening in the cafeteria of SS. Neumann and Goretti High School as a minor act of blasphemy. Eight contestants competed in a blind taste testing of their best recipe for red gravy - that hearty, tomato-based Italian staple poured over pasta, refined through generations of Sunday suppers and better known to t...
Mott Foundation To Confer 106 Academic Scholarships
The John R. Mott Scholarship Foundation, Inc., (the "Foundation") of Washington, D.C., dedicated to the education of the children of Calabria, Italy, has awarded 106 academic scholarships to deserving students from all over the Region of Calabria. Beginning in 2001, the Foundation has awarded scholarships for higher education to the young...
Westy Self Storage of New Jersey Supports UNICO Wine-Tasting Fundraiser
Westy Self Storage, which operates 15 properties in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, has donated storage space as well as free use of its moving truck and driver to support Charity DiVino, a wine-tasting fundraiser that will take place Oct. 27, 7-10 p.m., in Washington Township, N.J. Produced by The Greater Ramsey Chapter of UNICO, a nonprofit...
Persistence & Damage of Negative Imagery
The history of anti-Italian American bias manifests a blatant bigotry for the past 100 years. Long before the entertainment media chose Italian Americans as whipping boys the American press maligned them in news reports, columns and in cartoons. With the advent of movies, radio and TV programming the incidence of Italo-bashing has worsened. A forth...
Convlusa con successo la visita dell'Ambasciatore Valensise a Washington
La collaborazione politica ed economica tra Italia e Stati Uniti, la situazione in Medio oriente e nei paesi mediterranei e l'impegno italiano a favore della stabilizzazione delle principali aree di crisi sono stati al centro di una serie di incontri a Washington del segretario generale della Farnesina, Michele Valensise, con i vertici del Dipartim...