Hundreds march in Jersey City's 2017 Columbus Day parade
Italian flags lined Newark Avenue and Grove Street on Saturday as the eighth annual Columbus Day parade made its way through Jersey City's historically Italian-American neighborhood. Residents came out to Jersey City's downtown district on Saturday to celebrate Christopher Columbus' arrival in the America's in 1492. The parade kicked off at 1 p.m....
Finazzer Flory con l’universalità di Verdi sulla Quinta Avenue di New York
Alla fine, dopo tante polemiche, è arrivata. La 73esima Columbus Day Parade annuale si terrà a New York lunedì 9 ottobre e la sfilata celebrerà anche quest’anno l’eredità italiana-americana, la cultura e i successi, con oltre 35.000 partecipanti e oltre un milione di spettatori. Tra le novità, però, la riproposizione di un tema mai esplorato prima:...
Columbus Day Parade to Step Off on Monday
Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito will join the 2017 Columbus Day Parade in Revere this coming Monday, Oct. 9. Baker and Polito will join Mayor Brian Arrigo, the parade’s grand marshall, and other Revere city officials in marching along the route. “We are honored to welcome the governor and the lieutenant. governor to Revere for thi...
Marching Bands And Italian Food Takeover Downtown Binghamton For 58th Year
Marching bands and Italian food takeover downtown Binghamton for the 58th year. The Annual Columbus Day Tournament of Bands and Italian Festival returns on Monday. The festivities will kick off at 9am with an Italian flag raising at City Hall. The parade starts at 10am, with bands marching from the corner of Main and Arthur Streets into the city's...
Italy on Screen Today New York festival
Thursday, October 19 - Sunday, October 22, 2017. Italy on Screen Today New York festival. The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, in collaboration with the Italian Consulate in New York, Rai Cinema, the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo', New York University, and Stony Brook University, under the aegis...
Celebrate Immigrants on Columbus Day
When it comes to raising the ire of the American left over the imposition of western values on the indigenous peoples of North America, no one quite gets them going like Christopher Columbus. To them his arrival in the western hemisphere was the beginning of a long slide down a slippery slope into cultural oblivion inaugurated and perpetuated by d...
DC Council member says ‘Columbus Day’ needs to go
The federal holiday of “Columbus Day” would be erased from the books in the District and replaced with “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” under a piece of legislation introduced this week by D.C. Council member Anita Bonds. Bonds said she hoped her Indigenous Peoples’ Day Amendment Act would draw attention to Native Americans rather than Christopher Columbu...
CASANOVA: The World of a Seductive Genius, Tues. October 17th at Casa Belvedere
Tuesday, Oct. 17th @ 7:00 PM. Casa Belvedere - 79 Howard Ave, SI, NY 10301. CASANOVA: The World of a Sedcutive Genius. A book presentation with Author, Laurence Bergreen. Come discover, with author, Laurence Bergreen, the definitive biography of the impoverished child, abandoned by his parents, who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and...
Happy Columbus Day, except in Davenport, Iowa
Happy Columbus Day to you. I know. I’m early. Columbus Day is Monday. Or maybe I’m several years too late. For the past several years, there has been a growing consensus among liberals that the arrival of Christopher Columbus to this continent should not be celebrated. It should be mourned. The European migration that followed led to the destructio...
Il Circolo Italiano di Boston presenta Victor Carrabino Il Risorgimento Italiano: "Una Restaurata Vita Morale"
Tuesday, October 17 | 7:00pm-9:00pm | Department of Romance Languages - Boston College | Lyons Hall | Room 316 | 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill Lo spirito liberale e nazionale che aleggia in Italia nell'Ottocento, ed i principi già affermati per l'umanità dalla Rivoluzione Francese, anche di derivazione illuministica, come l'eguaglianza, li...
Little Italy Columbus parade to be held Sunday
Baltimore’s Italian-American community will hold its 127th parade honoring Christopher Columbus on Sunday afternoon. The festivities begin with a Mass at Saint Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church at 9:30 a.m., followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the Columbus Piazza at 11 a.m. The parade begins at 2 p.m. on Key Highway in South Baltimore, and ma...
Get ready for the 5th Annual Summerville Italian Feast
It’s time for everyone to be Italian! The 5th Annual Summerville Italian Feast will be held on Sunday, October 15th in downtown Summerville on Hutchinson Square from 11am to 7pm. This popular cultural event gets bigger and better every year and this year is no exception. Join us for Live Entertainment, Games & Contests, Dancing in the Street, Grape...