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The Clifton Arts Center presents the Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra conducted by Enrico Granafei, who is the owner of Trumpets Jazz Club in Montclair, on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public featuring Italian folk music, celebrating Italian tradition, culture and custom and honoring the Italian-American H...

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La rappresentazione degli italoamericani da parte dei media contemporanei offre spesso delle immagini negative e corre il rischio di confermare sempre stereotipi già noti. Una possibile soluzione è cercare di sradicare queste idee prestando attenzione al cinema indipendente che tende a controbilanciare le immagini proposte dal cinema di grande cons...

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Nancy Carnevale è una professoressa associata di storia alla Montclair State University del New Jersey. Nel 2010 si è aggiudicata l'American Book Award con il libro "A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants In the United States, 1890-1945" [Una nuova lingua, un nuovo mondo: immigrati italiani negli Stati Uniti 1890-1945 N.d.T.] pubblicato d...

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Congratulations to Raffaella Spilotro, Oak Park and River Forest High School (Oak Park, Illinois), recipient of the prestigious national Coccia-Inserra Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Teaching of Italian (K-12).   Presented at "Teaching Italian Symposium/Workshop: Meeting VIII-Imparando giocando," signature professional developmen...

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by Owen Satran   Montclair, your prayers have been answered! Just what downtown Montclair needed — another Italian restaurant!   Well, maybe not, but before you roll your eyes, check the dish on this new spot. The restaurant is headed by renowned chef Michael Cetrulo, whose impressive pedigree suggests that Ristorante Scala Del Nonna...

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Over the past 15 years or so, visionary director Romeo Castellucci has blossomed into a star of Europe's theater festivals and prestigious institutions with largely plotless, large-scale shows that operate at a dizzyingly high conceptual and technical level, and are so abstract that they become strangely accessible (you can project anything onto th...

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by Eric Kiefer   Essex County resident Benjamin Piazza, known locally as "Father Ben," passed away on Sept. 5. As a clergyman, Piazza worked with congregations in Caldwell, Newark, Jersey City, Montclair, Wayne and Morristown. He was 92-years-old.   The following obituary comes courtesy of Codey & Jones Funeral Home: "M...

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The Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University is pleased to invite you to the Spring 2016 Inserra Chair calendar of cultural programs and educational initiatives in Italian and Italian American Studies. The calendar includes round tables, exhibits, as well as contests and international projects for students...

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Pizza is a touchy subject for those that live in New Jersey. Everybody has their favorite place to grab a slice, relax and eat the food that no one does better than New Jersey. Within every town in the state, streets are dotted with Italian­American businesses...

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What are the cultural values that underlie Italian businesses in the metropolitan areas of New York and New Jersey? What class-related projects have the ability to demonstrate to students the professional relevance of Italian Studies today? In Fall 2014, students at Montclair State University had the unique opportunity to participate in a project e...

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