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I told Salvatore Scarlata, chef/owner of Vidalia Restaurant, a small, casual restaurant in Lawrenceville, just how serious the competition in our N.J.'s best Italian restaurant showdown has become.   "The guy at the last place played the piano for us,'' I explained to him, in a reference to Filippo Russo, chef/owner of da Filippo in Somervil...

La Federazione delle Associazioni Italoamericane del New Jersey (Federation of Italian-American Societies) ha tenuto il suo 83mo gala sabato 23 aprile presso l'Hanover Monor di East Hanover. Alla manifestazione, diretta dal presidente Pasquale Meola con la collaborazione dei dirigenti Edie Peters Liguori e Michael Grillo, hanno partecipato olt...

Angelo Puglisi, un membro del Lido Civic Club, ha ricevuto una targa dal Presidente Brian Della Rocca. Angelo non è il membro più vecchio del Club, però è il primo nella storia del Club, fondato nel 1929, a raggiungere sessanta anni di associazione. La targa gli è stata presentata alla riunione mensile di maggio. Tanti membri hanno parlato del con...

The Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, in collaboration with Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, presents a concert of the Italian Saxophone Quartet.   The Italian Saxophone Quartet was founded in 1982 by four saxophone soloists, close friends determined to join together to perform chamber music for saxophone at the very h...

Calling Spike Lee "the most anti-Italian director of all time," a N.J.-based national Italian-American anti-defamation organization has inducted the award-winning film director to its "Hall of Shame." Andre DiMino, president of the Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition, details in a release today Lee's "notorious track record of vile and negative p...

The characters in John Patrick Shanley's "Italian American Reconciliation" appreciate the minestrone at their local diner. Watching them relish their soup in the version of the play now at Northern Virginia's 1st Stage, you can't help hankering for more to savor in the theatrical variety. No egregious flaws mar director Michael Chamberlin's stagin...

Un "sentito ringraziamento" per la "dedizione all'insegnamento della lingua italiana" di cui anche quest'anno "hanno dato testimonianza i docenti di italiano negli Stati Uniti" è stato espresso dall'Ambasciatore italiano a Washington, Claudio Bisogniero, in una lettera indirizzata ai docenti, il 26 giugno scorso.   Nella lettera, il diplomat...

This month, the Senator John Heinz History Center's Italian American Collection will host Poet Laureate of North Carolina, Joseph Bathanti, as its firstScholar-in-Residence.   A Pittsburgh native and professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., Bathanti will produce an original body of work inspired by his re...

UNICO Delaware District I held its inaugural Brian Piccolo Award Program April 27 at Nicola Pizza on the Avenue.   This is an award given nationally in the month of April to an outstanding high school senior athlete of Italian heritage who exhibits the qualities and character traits modeled by the legendary Brian Piccolo: courage, friendship...

A) PRESENTAZIONE DELLE LISTE Le liste dei candidati alle elezioni Comites 2014 sono presentate nelle ore d'ufficio (dal lunedi' al venerdi', dalle 9.00 alle 12.30) all'Ufficio elettorale istituito presso Cancelleria Consolare della Ambasciata d'Italia in Washington DC, a partire dal ventesimo ed entro il trentesimo giorno successivo all'indizione...

The Italian American Association will hold its annual Mardi Gras Dinner on Friday, Feb. 27 at Genetti's Hotel and Convention Center, Wilkes Barre. Arrival time is 6 p.m. with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. Complimentary Italian desserts will be served.   Music for dancing will be by Danny Argo and friends until 10:15 p.m. President Herman Castel...

We are excited to announce the results of our most recent Board election! Maria Tamburri has been elected Chair, Diana Femia has been elected Vice Chair, and Maria T. Vullo, Esq. has been elected Treasurer of the National Board of Directors.   The new officers join Mary Ann Mattone, RN/MPH, Secretary of the National Board since 2014.&nb...