Free Italian Heritage Event Hosted By Basking Ridge Chapter Of UNICO
The Basking Ridge Chapter of Unico National is hosting a free Heritage Event called "Live Like An Italian." The event will be held on Sunday, April 30 from 1 until 2:30 p.m. at the Bernards Township Community Center at 289 South Maple Ave. in Basking Ridge. Guests will learn about the UNICO organization and celebrate the Italian heritage. The event...
The Italian-American community in cinema celebrated in Washington
The Embassy of Italy and the Middleburg Film Festival organized an evening in Washington celebrating the Italian-American community’s success in film, with a reception and the screening of producer and director Ray Romano’s feature film Somewhere in Queens, a comedy about a family at the heart of the Italian-American community in Queens, New York....
MY BIG GAY ITALIAN MIDLIFE CRISIS Comes to Atlantic City Next Weekend
It's a big gay weekend in Atlantic City on Saturday the 15th at 8PM in Ovation Hall at the Ocean Resort and Casino when "My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis," the third chapter in the "Big Gay" Franchise, marks its official debut at the property. The show made its original debut in December of 2015 at the Snapple Theater Center on 50th Street and Bro...
For baseball icon and Philly native Roy Campanella, fame far and wide, but little recognition here at home
Roy Campanella, the Hall of Fame catcher who grew up in the Nicetown neighborhood of Philadelphia, was born more than 100 years ago, yet there are no baseball fields, playgrounds, schools, or streets in the city named after him. Besides earning the National League Most Valuable Player award — three times — “Campy” was such a pioneer for civil right...
The Italian Chicks Comedy Show in New Jersey
Saturday April 22, Kathedral Event Center, 499 S. Egg Harbor Road, Hammonton, N.J. Get ready for The Italian Chicks Comedy Show. Comedians include Maryann “Boom Boom” Maisano, a singer, songwriter, musician, comedian, writer, and actor. She was the winner of the New York City Song-writers Festival. Her original song “City of Light,” was recorded by...
Screening of "Tell it like a woman" presented by producer Chiara Tilesi
On March 21, at 6 p.m., at the historic Avalon Theatre in the U.S. capital, the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington organized a screening of producer Chiara Tilesi's film "Tell It Like a Woman," as part of the initiatives dedicated to Women's History Month."An Italian film in Washington that tells with such passion and...
A Night of Italian Comedy With Eric D'Alessandro and Vic DiBitetto Comes to NJPAC in April
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents a night of comedy with the Italian monsters of comedy, Eric D'Alessandro ("Mask Off Remix - Walmart Diss") and Vic DiBitetto (Working Class Zero) on Saturday, April 14, 2023 at 8:00PM. The Goodfellas of comedy. They are comedy in a red sauce. One comes from a large Italian family in Staten Island....
Media personalities Erin Como, Fox 5 DC, & Nick Iannelli, WTOP, host Italian American Gala in metro Washington, DC on 3/25 with Dr. Anthony Fauci & Dr. Andrea Piccioli
UNICO National, the largest Italian American Service Organization in America, plans for an exciting centennial year, celebrating the achievements of the Italian American community in the United States, as well as commemorating the enduring bond between the United States and Italy. UNICO is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with a mission to pro...
Film festival brings movies from across the globe to UMD community
Restored masterpieces of world cinema were brought to life last week at the University of Maryland’s third edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival. The festival, hosted at this university by the languages, literatures and cultures school and the cinema and media studies program, features films that have been restored by the Cineteca di Bol...
Postal Museum Curator to Speak on Italy’s Stamps and Postal System
AMHS is pleased to announce that our second program of the year will feature a talk by a distinguished guest speaker and AMHS member, Daniel A. Piazza, who will give us an overview of Italian stamps and the Italian postal service. The meeting will take place at Casa Italiana on March 26. Dan has been the Chief Curator of the Smithsonian’s National...
Clark’s Sofia DiProfio Honored as Outstanding Female Athlete for National Women in Sports Day
Sofia DiProfio, a senior at Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, joined over 140 female student-athletes on Feb. 12 in celebration of the 37th Anniversary of National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NAGWS). NAGWS is recognized in all 50 states to honor the success of female athletes and recognize the struggle for equality for women in sports. E...
It's a good fate for Worcester native Lucia Giannetta in 'Hercules'
Actor/singer and Worcester native Lucia Giannetta's first large-scale theater production since the pandemic is a "Herculean" affair. She's in the cast of the new Disney musical "Hercules" at the famous Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. As fate would have it in a good way, there might be something positive and new coming out of the pande...