Actress Antoinette LaVecchia Serves Up Love, Loss, and Spaghetti at George Street Playhouse
By Iris Wiener I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti gives new meaning to the term "dinner theater," as audiences at George Street Playhouse can now enjoy a comical, heartfelt, one-woman show while being served a meal made right in front of them — by the star herself. Antoinette LaVecchia (Broadway's recent A View From the Bridge) prepares a t...
UNICO to host Easter Egg Hunt
Sparta UNICO will host its annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 12 at 10:45 a.m. in Dykstra Park. This year's hunt will have more than 1,000 eggs filled with candy. Select eggs will have tickets that can be redeemed for special prizes including candy baskets and two bicycles, donated by Dawn Corbo of Weichert Realtors. Read more &nb...
Michéal Castaldo Performs A Musical Celebration of the Italian Spirit at SOPAC on September 21, 2014
Award-winning Italian tenor, songwriter, and producer, Michéal Castaldo will perform A Musical Celebration of the Italian Spirit—A Feast for the Ears, Eyes, and Soul at the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) on Sunday, September 21, 2014. Michéal Castaldo is the living embodiment of authentic Italian culture. A native of Calabria...
L’INTREPIDO (A LONELY HERO) at the Embassy of Italy - July 14, 2015 at 6:30PM
Embassy of Italy - Auditorium3000 Whitehaven Street, NWWashington, DC 20008 MORE INFO & RSVP: CLICK HERE DOORS OPEN AT 6PM AND CLOSE AT 6:30PM Set in modern day Milan, L'Intrepido is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work - every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labour - as seen through the eyes of a kind,...
Thousands celebrate St. Padre Pio
by Daniel J. Kov Held one week early to make room for the visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia, the St. Padre Pio Festival on Sunday continued to delight local residents looking to eat, pray and love in the company of family. The couple of thousand residents who made their way out for the annual event often referred to it as feeling...
Scranton native’s eight-piece band slated to play annual Italian festival
by Patrice Wilding From its humble beginnings as a single-block festival 41 years ago, La Festa Italiana grew into a destination event for locals, out-of-towners and homecoming natives. The Labor Day weekend festival now features more than 80 food and craft vendors, as well as dozens of regional entertainment acts, spread out over thr...
La bella Italia in mostra negli States per un anno
L'America l'ha "scoperta" un italiano circa 500 anni fa; l'anno prossimo saranno gli americani a scoprire il meglio della cultura italiana. Sarà un lungo viaggio, che durerà tutto il 2013, e che porterà negli Stati Uniti il valore della nostra cultura, con il suo ineguagliabile passato e il suo inestimabile patrimonio ma anche con le sue eccellenze...
Contributi Italiani in America/ La voce del funky nero
Era il 1969 quando in una anonima sala d'incisione di musica comparve un singolo realizzato da un giovane musicista canadese. Il disco si chiamava "Gina Bold" e l'artista Van Elli. Non ebbe particolarmente fortuna ma bastò a far notare il suo talento tra gli addetti del settore. E non poteva essere altrimenti. Van Elli, alias Gino Vannelli era infa...
Le buone prospettive dei negoziati TTIP
di Mattia Ferraresi La Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), l'accordo di libero scambio fra Stati Uniti e Unione Europea che ha mosso i suoi primi passi al G8 in Irlanda del Nord, è spesso descritta con aggettivi altisonanti. La Casa Bianca dichiara che è un passo "storico", "ambizioso" e "comprehensive"; la Commissione e...
St Anthony's Feast in Roselle Park offered great family fun
This year's St. Anthony's Italian Feast, held June 6 - 9 and in its 13th year, was a tremendous success in spite of the fickle weather and one washout day. It once again transformed the parking lot at the Church of the Assumption in Roselle Park, into a wonderland of rides, games, food, entertainment and, after dark, sparkling lights. It was a grea...
Mele e pere italiane negli USA: firmato il piano operativo - La soddisazione del Ministro De Girolamo
Italia e Usa hanno firmato un piano operativo, sottoscritto dall'Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) americano e dal Servizio fitosanitario centrale del Mipaaf, con il quale è stato definito il programma finalizzato all'esportazione di mele e pere italiane verso gli Stati Uniti. Per il ministro delle Politiche agricole, Nunz...
Scarpati is the man behind county's biggest festival
by Carlos Avila The Mercer County Italian-American Festival last month was once again a huge success, but The Trentonian dug deeper into the history of the festival to discover the man behind the show. The man behind the idea of organizing a festival that brings thousands of people from all over to Mercer Park to celebrate the culture...