Italian opera makes American debut at Media Theatre
by Kathleen E. Carey The end of Verdi's Otello, as many know, is rather bleak. Desdemona and Otello are dead, havoc has been unleashed and the villain Jago escapes. Disconcerting to some, it intrigued Karen Saillant, artistic director and stage director of the International Opera Theater, to create a sequel based on the miscreant. &n...
The Language and Enrichment Center hosts 5th annual End of the Year Celebration at the Scotch Plains Italian American Club
The Scotch Plains Italian American Club was filled with electrifying energy of the children, parents, and staff of the Language and Enrichment Center the night of June 6th. The Italian Language and Enrichment Center hosted their 5th annual End of the Year Celebration which comprised of children ages 2 ½ – 9 of the Let's Play in Italian prog...
Italian-American Innovators: How their inventions make our daily life just a little bit nicer
The entire world is familiar with the accomplishments of the great Italian inventors, artists and explorers. The artistic contributions of Leonardo DaVinci to the art world, the genius of Guglielmo Marconi to science, and of the discovery of America through the explorations of Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo). But what of the less...
Italian American Heritage Club to meet Oct. 15 in Asbury
The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at the Grand Colonial Restaurant on Rt. 173 in Asbury. The guest speaker will be Sam Faiello. Faiello is a Hunterdon County resident whose public relations firm was retained by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey to develop pub...
Rights(?)/Growth at the Kennedy Center - Millenium Stage
Italian dancer and choreographer Mimmo Miccolis and Austrian dancer Gloria Benedikt develop contemporary dance on the edge of artistic innovation and human need and base their work around issues of public concern, for which they strive to create artistic responses that inspire, thought provoke and emotionally touch audiences. RIGHTS(?) (Am...
Festa Italiana Bethlehem, a new local Italian festival, debuting in June
by Lynn Olanoff Musikfest. Celtic Classic. Festa Italiana? Yes, a new Italian festival called Festa Italiana Bethlehem is joining Bethlehem's hearty festival lineup this June, set for June 5 and 6 on Main Street. The event will feature both a wine and pasta trail along with authentic Italian vendors, said Lynn Collins Cunning...
U.S. Representative Tom Marino Speaks at NIAF-Frank J. Guarini Public Policy Forum
The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) leadership, including President John M. Viola and the Foundation's Government Relations and Public Policy Committee Chair Mark Valente lll, welcomed Representative Tom Marino (Pa.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, who spoke at the first...
Exhibit sheds new light on classic Italian mosaics
By Blake Oetting As the new academic year begins, there will be countless opportunities to overstress, over think, and spend too much time with your head buried in work. Luckily enough, Swarthmore Libraries' first art installation of the year fits well into the beginning of the fall semester. Angela Lorenz, an artist based out of both Ital...
Learn fig trees - and molto other Italian-related topics - at Pandola Learning Center
NEW! Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Growing Fig Trees. Saturday, February 27. 10:30a - 2 pm; $25 Want to grow a fig tree? Learn how to grow fig trees in ground or in a container, plus ways to care for them in the winter: pruning, propagation, transplanting, fertilization, and how to rejuvenate a freeze-damaged tree. To...
Classroom Close-up NJ films Italian Heritage Curriculum
On Tuesday April 12th, The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District was filmed by NJTV integrating a lesson on immigration from The Universality of Italian Heritage Curriculum. The Curriculum was developed for educators by the New Jersey Italian Heritage Commission, in consultation with the New Jersey Department of Education and is a free r...
Tavola hosts Italian chef
There are two chefs working side-by-side at Belmont restaurant Tavola this week. One of them is Vivetta Cintelli, who is here on a chef exchange from Charlottesville's Italian sister city, Poggio a Caiano. Through translator Caterina Martane, Cintelli said she's excited to be in America. "It's a new experience in a totally different k...
Officers of UNICO plan Rehoboth events
At a planning session held recently at Touch of Italy on Del. 1, newly elected officers of UNICO National-Rehoboth Area Chapter- gathered to set a calendar of meetings and events for the 2016-2017 season. Chapter meetings will be held on the third Thursday of each month from September to June, except for December. These meetings will be he...