Announcing the Launch of Our Partnership with Serie A USA
In the launch of our new partnership with Serie A USA, the Coccia Institute and the School of Communication & Media at Montclair State University hosted a successful watch party featuring the Napoli vs. Juventus match on Sunday, March 3rd in the CELS building. This event gathered a remarkable crowd, with representatives from local Napoli and Juvent...
The Incredible Story of Sandro Gamba, an International Basketball Legend, in the Film “A Coach As Father” by Italian Director Finazzer Flory
On the evening of March 20th, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington hosted the screening of the documentary “A Coach As Father: the extraordinary story of Sandro Gamba” by Italian director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. The documentary portrays the life and achievements of Sandro Gamba, from the hand injury caused by a...
Little Italy Lodge receives check from Baltimore City owed for bocce court ground rent
Baltimore City District 1 Councilman Zeke Cohen (on left) and Maggie Masters, Staff Assistant, joined the February 13th general meeting of the Little Italy Lodge to personally deliver a much-delayed Baltimore City check to the Lodge, presented to Christopher Pisano, Lodge President (on right). Representing payment of over three years of ground rent...
First mixed-race Baseball Hall of Famer was Roy ‘Campy’ Campanella
Did you know that the first mixed race baseball player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame was an Italian American? Roy “Campy” Campanella was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on Nov. 11, 1921. John Campanella, Roy’s father, was a son of Italian Immigrants and his mother Ida was an African American. He later moved to Nicetown in Nor...
music > How I Met Puccini
The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington presents musicians Valentina Ciardelli and Stefano Teani in “How I Met Puccini”, a project with which we celebrate Puccini’s music and poetics a century after his departure. “How I Met Puccini” pays tribute to Giacomo Puccini, renowned as the second most frequently performed Italian composer globally. Pu...
'Godfather,' 'Sopranos' stars, Giants' Tommy DeVito coming to Paisan Con in NJ
If you go, make sure to say gravy and not sauce. Paisan Con, billed as New Jersey's first Italian pop culture convention, is coming to Fairfield next month. The festival is slated to run at the DoubleTree by Hilton on April 13 and 14, and the lineup is a who's who of Italian American life. "Paisan Con is a celebration that aims to encapsulate the r...
Eric D’Alessandro at the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg, PA
Comedian Eric D'Alessandro will perform at the Sherman Theater at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 23. D’Alessandro’s unique comedic style, infused with his Italian-American heritage, spins raw, relatable narratives that resonate with the everyday American, a spokesperson said. D’Alessandro began on YouTube, and now performs sketches, celebrity impression...
“La Rondine” with Washington Concert Opera
Tuesday March 26 2024, 18:00 (Local time). Embassy of Italy - 3000 Whitehaven Street, NW - Washington, DC. IIC Washington, in collaboration with Washington Concert Opera (WCO), is pleased to offer an evening with Maestro Antony Walker, WCO Artistic Director & Conductor, as he leads us and Öznur Tülüoğlu, Soprano, Yi Li, Tenor, and David Hanlon, pia...
1000 Miglia Warm Up USA 2024 Entries to the 2024 Edition Open
Entries open today for the 2024 edition of the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA, the event organized by the Red Arrow for the past five years in the United States, between Middleburg and Washington DC. Scheduled 22-27 October, the event will confirm the winning format of the past years: after one-day training on Italian regularity racing techniques, held at...
Holsten’s is selling Tony Soprano’s booth, so get those onion rings ready
Ever wanted to own a piece of Tony Soprano’s world? Hope you’ve been saving up, because here’s your chance. Holsten’s Brookdale Confectionery in Bloomfield, famously the site of the series finale of “The Sopranos,” is selling Tony’s booth. The booth was the last place Tony Soprano and family (minus a tardy Meadow) were seen before the abrupt cut to...
Membership in AS Roma fan club costs $40 – plus your very heart and soul
The red and yellow décor in part of Massimo Musumeci’s house suggests that he is a fan of AS Roma. To know for sure, ask him about the time when severe weather called for an evacuation, and he immediately grabbed his most prized items: his collection of scarves and shirts in team colors. Or how he asked that a christening (and he was a godfather!)...
Hearing Voices: A Film by Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno
Join us on Saturday, March 23, 2023, at 2:00 p.m., for a free screening and discussion on the film Hearing Voices with award-winning filmmakers Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno. The Nutley Public Library is pleased to welcome back prior ECLAP-funded artists, Emmy-nominated, award winning, and social justice filmmakers, Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno. The...
