Street signs salute trio of North Brunswick veterans
Three streets along Arlington Avenue have been ceremoniously renamed in honor of township veterans. The North Brunswick Veteran Street Sign Program allows township residents who were wartime veterans to have their names added on a secondary street sign on an existing municipal road. The intersection with Grove Street will be known a...
AC Cugini Expands to Fredericksburg, New "Intro to Competitive Soccer" Program
AC Cugini is excited to announce it is expanding and has opened an additional office in Fredericksburg, VA, effective May 15, 2015. AC Cugini President Fabio Diletti is the head instructor for the Fredericksburg academy training. Academy ProgramWe are conducting tryouts at the Momentum Sports Training Center in Fredericksburg for AC Cugini...
La Festa Italiana bringing five nights of fun to Downtown Jersey City
By Nicholas Zeitlinger For five summer nights, the neighborhood surrounding Holy Rosary Church will come alive with music, games of chance, kids' activities, and delicious Italian food and drinks. It all takes place starting Wednesday and running through Sunday, Aug. 16, at Holy Rosary Church on Sixth Street in Historic Downtown J...
Still a student: Delta Medix-founding doctor honored by Italian-American Association
by Peter Cameron Gino Mori, M.D., wouldn't shake anyone's hand Sunday night at the 107th annual dinner of the Columbus Day Association of Lackawanna County. But the retired 82-year-old physician, being honored as the association's Man of the Year at a banquet at Fiorelli Catering in Blakely, wasn't letting the award go to his head. &...
United States and Italy Extend Memorandum of Understanding To Protect the Cultural Heritage of Italy
The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the extension of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Italy Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories of Archaeological Material Representing the Pre-Classical, Classical and Imperial Roman...
N.J.'s best Italian restaurant: It's cash only at small Hoboken eatery big on charm
Sharon Yandoli - she of the distinct accent that sounds straight out of Brooklyn but is all Jersey City, where's she from - met her future husband at what was then Hoboken Pizzeria. She had just watched "The Usual Suspects'' at the local movie theater - slept right through it, she remembers - and stopped at the restaurant, where Angelo "Bu...
Philly's last grape merchant is having a barrel of fun (and winemakers love him)
On Sunday morning, three hours before the kickoff of the season opener, Eagles fans surrounding Lincoln Financial were sending up sweet barbecue smoke from their tailgating parties. Meanwhile, two blocks east of the stadium, men and women driving SUVs and pickup trucks were fighting their way through game day traffic to reach the site of anoth...
Sons of Italy plan two fundraisers
Back-to-back fundraisers will be held the last weekend of October at the Brownsville Sons & Daughters of Italy, Frank Ricco Lodge 731, 16 Race St. An oldies dance will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight Oct. 29, and will feature music by DJ Ted Knisley. Doors open at 7. Admission is $10 per person in advance or at the door. For table reservat...
Verdi Re-Imagined - Fantasias from Verdi's Operas
Composers in the 19th century produced a panoply of fantasies, paraphrases and transcriptions designed to bring the world of opera into the household - but what about the concert hall? Cameristi della Scala explores Giuseppe Verdi's music in instrumental adaptations by his contemporaries, all featuring a string soloist with chamber orchestra. These...
At American Visionary Art Museum - FRANK BRUNO: A Life Devoted to THE END
Extended thru February 2, 2014Third Floor Gallery, Zanvyl A. Krieger Main Building This summer, the American Visionary Art Museum presents FRANK BRUNO: A Life Devoted to THE END—a hot hellfire and damnation exhibition featuring 14 masterworks created over the last five decades by visionary true believer Frank Bruno, with mind-blowing atten...
Italian Americans media and beyond: between stylemes and stereotypes
The Department of Italian invites you to a lecture by Fulvio S. Orsitto who is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Italian and Italian American program at California State University at Chico. Born in Turin, Italy, he holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Turin, an M.A. in Film Studies and a Ph.D. in Italian from th...
Good Eye: Italian Bankers Row
by Inga Saffron In the late 19th century, when thousands of Italian immigrants were pouring into South Philadelphia to make their fortunes, Seventh Street was transformed into a bustling bankers row. By 1897, there were 25 rowhouse-size banks between Bainbridge and Washington Avenues, all competing to provide newcomers with loans, money tr...