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Thursday, March 5, 2015: General Meeting - Red Wine Tasting CompetitionOur annual homemade red wine tasting competition. Awards given to first, second and third place   Thursday, March 12, 2015: Cultural Presentation - The Art of FrescosLocal artist Maryann Cannon will give a presentation and demonstration of fresco painting. Maryann will pa...

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"Italian food is comfort food. It tastes good. I could eat it seven days a week!". Ben Sanford, manager and co-owner with chef Joe Egitto, of Cugino's Italian Specialties in Pennington, loves what he does. "I just like the idea of food. I've been in the food industry for 14 years, and we are very enthusiastic about Cugino's."   The Ital...

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More than 30 members of Clark Unico joined the Clark Recreation Department in christening a newly installed bocce court on Sept. 26. The celebration included pizza, desserts and Italian music as guests learned the game and played against each other.   The court was donated by The Keith W. Dolan Memorial Fund and was installed by Steve Patern...

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By Bob Shryock Retired Assignment Judge Samuel G. DeSimone may have been honored more times than anyone in Gloucester County history. But the award he receives Oct. 22 at Auletto's from the Gloucester County Italian Heritage Commission - 2015 Italian-American Citizen of the Year - may mean the most to him.   Because "Gentle Sam" feels...

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The NJ Italian Heritage Commission has recently begun a project to record the oral histories of Italians and Italian Americans in New Jersey. The Commission will be collaborating with the Rutgers Oral History Archive (ROHA). The Commission and ROHA have already begun selecting interviewees and will begin recording interviews in January, 2016. The...

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When: June 9 at 7:00 pmWhere: The Cen­ter for Ital­ian & Ital­ian Amer­i­can Cul­ture (CIIAC), 411 Pomp­ton Avenue, Suite 5, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 United States Join us for a pre­sen­ta­tion by Lou Bar­rella, Music Edu­ca­tor & recip­i­ent of the Dr. Leonard Cov­ello Life­time Achieve­ment Award from The Ital­ian Teach­ers' Asso­ci­a­tion...

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The Plainfields' Chapter of UNICO announced it will hold its annual Pig Roast event on Friday, Dec. 6 beginning at 7:30 p.m., at the Scotch Plains Italian American Hall. The club is located at 1976 Valley Ave. in Scotch Plains.   The home-made meal and menu includes unlimited roasted pig and chicken, bread and sides of roasted potatoes, sala...

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The Hoboken Italian Festival, Tatiana Petersen and Dana Marchionne are preparing to bring Italy to Hoboken in an event never before seen in this thriving city. Hoboken Fashion Night is a city wide celebration of Hoboken's unique fashion and retail community and its wide array of creative genius.   The program will consist entirely of Ho...

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The Church of the Assumption's annual St. Anthony Italian Family Feast returns for its 15th year with four days of faith, fun, food, family, and friends. The festival will be filled with all new and different rides from a new company, games, amusements, homemade cooking, an Italian-style café, food venders, a beer & wine garden, entertainment,...

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It is not easy to say something new about a singer everybody called "The Voice": probably the most important and compete artist of the American XX century. Still, as this man was an Italian American, and on December 12 he would have turned 100, we feel important to dedicate one of our interviews to the legend of the great Frank Sinatra. To do that...

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