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New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Presents Patrizio Buanne: The Special Valentine's Show on Friday, February 15, 2019 at 8 P.M. Get romantic with international acclaimed, best-selling crooner Patrizio Buanne, the world's leading ambassador of Neapolitan, Sicilian and other Italian song, when he makes this welcome return to NJPAC with The Sp...

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Under American law I technically qualify as Hispanic even though I have absolutely no ethnic Spanish ancestry in the last 500 years. The reason for this is that the law permits you to self-identify as Hispanic if you have "ancestry originating in the Spanish Empire." Which means if you have an ancestor who ever lived under the flag of Spain, even i...

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America has always appreciated the creativity, ingenuity and manual skills of the Italians. These are qualities that have allowed many Italians to emigrate to the US, work hard, prove their skills, find their way, be successful. It has happened in every field, and the person we host today on We the Italians is a living example of this. Alberto Zamp...

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Award-winning Italian Tenor Michéal Castaldo and Friends will perform “Christmas in Italia,” a fundraiser for the Richwood United Methodist Church, 111 Richwood Rd., Richwood/Mullica Hill, NJ 08062, on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 3pm. This concert is a fundraiser, and 100% of all ticket sales will benefit the Richwood United Methodist Church. Pa...

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Comedian Mike Marino, "New Jersey's Bad Boy of Comedy," is one of Scotch Plains's greatest ambassadors. The comedian, who has performed at major comedy clubs across the country and is currently on a tour called “Make America Italian Again” that recently brought him to Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Las Vegas. No matter where he goes, Marino is proud...

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One of seven children, Joseph Battaglia remembers traveling back to his grandfather Gaetano Bastardi’s house in New York after his family moved to North Brunswick when he was a child, visiting his relatives and feasting all day. “You don’t realize it at the time, but those were the best times,” he said. Fast-forward, and Battaglia tries to keep tho...

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The Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute, a part of the College of Arts & Sciences, will be presenting "The Sicilian Music and Poetry of Nino Provenzano" on Thursday, November 8 at 6 p.m. in the Theatre-in-the-Round in the Bishop Dougherty University Center. The Institute was established in 2003 to coordinate the University's many act...

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The Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders held its 2018 Italian Heritage Month Celebration on Wednesday, October 3, 2018, at the Hall of Records to commemorate Italian culture and heritage. Freeholder President Brendan W. Gill began the program with welcoming remarks, embracing the vast diversity that exists in Essex County. Freeholder Leonard L...

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If you live in southern New Jersey you know that we are all very lucky to have countless restaurants which are BYOB—and many of them are incredibly good. We are also lucky to have the lion’s share of the state’s 49 wineries in the vicinity. On Saturday (National Pumpkin Day) my wife, Carol, and I celebrated this fortuitous intersection of food and...

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Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, friend, mentor, and lifelong writer and scholar, Louise A. DeSalvo, PhD., died in her home in Montclair, NJ, October 31, 2018, at the age of 76, with her loving husband of 55 years by her side. Louise was born in Hoboken, NJ to Italian American parents in 1942. After finishing high school in Ridgefield, s...

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