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The Center for Italian & Italian-American Culture, 411 Pompton Ave., Suite 5, Cedar Grove, is offering an eight week session in beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, beginning Wednesday, Jan. 22.   All three levels will be offered if there are enough students to fill the classes. The fee for members is $99; for non-members $149. Ti...

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Celebrated musical artist Michéal Castaldo has organized a special showcase of art to exalt the glories of Italy and her people. The selected artwork will be presented in the Grand Lobby of the South OrangePerforming Arts Center (SOPAC) in South Orange, New Jersey. The art show willaccompany a double performance (2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., with ex...

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The Italian Department at Rutgers now offers an innovative, fully online Italian for Reading Knowledge Certificate Program.   This two-course program surveys Italian vocabulary and idiom, syntax and grammar, helping learners to acquire the language skills necessary to appreciate the works of important Italian authors as they were written. Th...

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By Carlos Avila The Parish Community of Our Lady of Angeles and the New Jersey Italian and Italian-American Heritage Commission in partnership with the Ocean County Columbus Day Parade Committee and Knights of Columbus, are sponsoring the 12 Annual Columbus Day Commemoration. The event will take place on Monday, Oct. 14 at Columbus Park in Trenton...

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by Lynn Olanoff   Bethlehem Councilman Bryan Callahan is seeking to establish a city Italian festival to bring more shoppers to Main Street. Main Street merchants have been hard hit by this snowy winter and are seeking more events to bring people downtown, Callahan said. The Feast of San Gennaro is a big Italian event in September and C...

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St. Anthony Society's annual Italian Festival will celebrate the region's Italian Heritage this month on Rowan Boulevard. The annual festival kicks off at noon Saturday with a traditional procession through the streets of downtown Glassboro from St. Anthony's Mutual Aid Society on Church Street to Rowan Boulevard.   The event features s...

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by Sarah Griesemer   A 2-year-old boy wears a white apron, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He is perched atop a chair, too small to reach the counter without it. His small hands are starting to shape a soft round of pizza dough, an action he doesn't yet know he will repeat for the next 66 years.   That little boy is Nick A...

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John Vitale of Caffe Anello in Westwood will be cooking a five-course meal on Aug. 27 at Sunset Vista Community Garden in Andover Township for its annual Tuscan Sunset Dinner. The five-course meal, with seatings at 6 and 8 p.m., will be prepared at the farm.   Dishes include homemade meatballs in a pomodoro sauce, sausage and peppers in a sw...

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by Keith Loria   "THE saddest thing in life is wasted talent". This memorable quote from A Bronx Tale is one that the movie and one-man-show's writer and star Chazz Palminteri continues to guide his life by. Over his 25-plus year career in show biz, the Academy Award-nominated actor has delivered standout performances in movies, TV...

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The Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade Committee recently introduced its 2016 honorees. It hosted a meet and greet on Tuesday, March 29, at the Franklin Steakhouse in Nutley. This will mark the 34th year of the Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade.   Pictured, from left, are Michelle DeBlasio Fleitell, Nutley Italian Woman of t...

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