Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Wednesday, January 22, 7:30PM. Morris Museum, 6 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, NJ 07960. This film fully immerses audiences in the life of the last great artist of the Italian Renaissance.With the enchanting narrative voice of two-time Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter, cinema audiences visit places that evoke and preserve the memory o...
Central Jersey filmmaker Christopher Boncimino’s short film ‘Leo’ accepted in 2020 Garden State Film Festival, features local talent
The American Film Industry was born in New Jersey and presently the Garden State hosts Film Festivals that attract visitors from all over the country and abroad. Many locals look forward to attending the film festivals every year and many films feature the best of local talent. Howell Township resident Christopher Boncimino’s short film “Leo” wi...
Opera on the James General Director Marco Nisticò On His Multi-Faceted Career
Opera on the James, located in Lynchburg, Virginia named singer, director, and teacher, Marco Nisticò General Director this past June. Nisticò summed up his mission on the company’s website, saying, “[Opera] has the capacity to move, inspire, provoke thought, and entertain. It helps us to understand who we are and how we relate to each other. As di...
Boys Basketball: Arletti fuels second-half effort to keep Holy Cross unbeaten
In his second year, Gianmarco Arletti sets the pace for Holy Cross Prep. An international student from Italy, the 6-foot-6 point guard dictates much of what the Lancers do. He’s more confident and comfortable on the floor than a year ago, and so far his play has shown it. "Last year was a little strong for me," the University of Delaware commit sai...
Habakkuk Baldonado’s long journey from Rome to Pitt’s defensive line
The Italian Club has been active on Pitt’s campus for 106 years, but until the day Charlie Partridge walked Habakkuk Baldonado through the front door, it never was used as a recruiting tool for the football team. Partridge, Pitt’s defensive line coach and assistant head coach, said it’s an experience he never will forget. Partridge was ushering Bal...
'Dominick the Donkey' has roots in New Jersey
The year was 1960. John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for president, and the civil rights movement was gaining traction. Frankie Avalon, Elvis Presley and The Drifters topped the charts. And a crooner from Bergen County released a novelty Christmas song about a donkey that, nearly six decades later, remains a love-it-or-hate-it holiday earworm...
Experience the magic of an Italian Christmas
Shepherdstown Music and Dance invites the public to discover the beauty and magic of an Italian Christmas in this year’s holiday concert. Michela Musolino and the band, Rosa Tatuata, bring seasonal favorites of Sicily. The group includes founder and singer Michela Musolino, Phil Passantino, Charlie Rutan and Jeffrey Panettieri. Love of Sicilian and...
Christmas In Italy Concert Comes To Montclair For The Holidays
Take a step back in time with Montclair Early Music and experience an Italian Renaissance Christmas with their Christmas in Italy Concert, five o'clock in the evening on Sunday, Dec. 15. Montclair Early Music, a local recorder ensemble with cello and vocalists, and the Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra will perform period music and present a sampling o...
Sopranos meets Comic-Con: 54 actors from hit gangster show welcome 10,000 fans dressed as favorite characters at New Jersey's SopranosCon which boasts huge mural of late James Gandolfini
The cast of the Sopranos have reunited 20 years after the gangster TV series first aired on HBO and 12 years after its final episode. Approximately 10,000 fans attended the first day of SopranosCon 2019 on Saturday - the first of a two-day event where 54 actors from the hit show participated in meet-and-greets, comedy skits and Q&A sessions. Fans a...
Italian Film Festival Received Well By Attendees
Dickinson College’s Italian department hosted their annual Italian film festival and invited two Italian filmmakers to partake in the activities. The department welcomed Angelo Pasquini, who wrote the screenplay for the film, The Stolen Caravaggio, and Antonio Falduto, an Italian-based film director. The festival took place over a two-day period....
Francesco Cafiso Duo
Tuesday, November 26, 2019. 6:00 P.M. - 7:30 P.M. The Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia PA 19103. Free entrance. Il repertorio include brani tipici della tradizione jazz, brasiliana e anche qualche brano italiano rivisitato in chiave jazz. Cafiso, con la sua voce calda e lirica, disarticola la melodia dei brani, co...
Sopranos convention: Who will be there and what you need to know if you go
A "Sopranos" convention in the Meadowlands? Of course. Where else would you hold a "Sopranos" convention? This particular party, however, doesn't take place under six feet of swampy ground — or in the concrete supports of a truss bridge. This first SopranosCon will be at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus on Nov. 23 and 24. And you'd bes...