Momentum builds for Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade
The Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade Committee will host its Honoree Dinner Gala at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, at Nanina's in the Park in Belleville. For tickets, call Barbara Freda at 973-650-3849 or Melissa Matturro at 973-661-9234. The awardees being honored in this year's parade are as follows: Vincent Micco, Grand Marshal; Me...
150 Years Of Immigration In America, Visualized
Amid a flurry of anti-immigration rhetoric coming from certain GOP presidential candidates, a new interactive map reminds us just how much of our country's foundation was built on the backs of foreign-born citizens. Foreign-Born Population: A Nation of Overlapping Diasporas visualizes America's history of immigration from the 1850s to 2010. &...
Italian Night Event
The Nottingham High School Italian Program will be sponsoring its 4th Annual Italian Night, La Festa delle Luci on Friday, April 29, 2016. Italian Night was established to raise scholarships for students studying Italian. For the first time since its inception in 2013, Italian Night will be held at the Nottingham Ballroom, 200 Mercer Stree...
Opening night brings taste of Italy
Lancaster Festival Artistic Director Gary Sheldon predicts there will be something special for everyone to enjoy during the Lancaster Festival Orchestra Opening Night Concert, "Viva Italia," which begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 21, at St. Mary Catholic Church. "I'm always tickled to hear what different people say was the 'highlight' of a...
Alfred Grasso named man of the year by the Lido Civic Club of Washington D.C.
The Lido Civic Club of Washington, DC is an Italian-American civic organization serving the Washington Metropolitan, founded in 1929, has selected Mr. Alfred Grasso as 2013 Man of the Year. Mr. Grasso, Chief Executive Officer of Mitre Corporation and the Chairman of the Board of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) I...
National Italian Flag Throwing Team Performs in Washington
The National Italian Flag Throwing Team (Nazionale Italiana Sbandieratori) was in Washington this Mother's Day Weekend where they performed at the Italian Embassy on Saturday and at the Casa Italiana Cultural Center on Sunday. Fonte: Ciao Washington
Italian Festival comes to Rose Tree Park on Sunday
Delaware County Council of Delaware County has declared Sunday, June 2, 2013, to be Italian American Heritage Day in celebration of The Year of Italian Culture in America. The fourth annual Italian American Heritage Festival to be held from noon to 6 p.m. in Rose Tree Park on June 2 will celebrate the heritage and culture of Americans of I...
Chiusura Consolati/ Nissoli (SC) interroga Bonino
Deputata di Scelta Civica eletta in Nord America, Fucsia Nissoli ha presentato una interrogazione al Ministro degli esteri sulla chiusura di 14 sedi consolari. Nell'interrogazione, Nissoli, dopo aver fatto notare l'incongruenza tra quanto richiesto nella cosiddetta "spending review", e cioè che non siano compromessi i servizi offerti ai ci...
The American Boccaccio Association Second Triennial Conference: Boccaccio in Washington DC
CONFERENCE DATES: OCTOBER 4 - 6, 2013 An international, interdisciplinary conference on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio's birth, to be held at Georgetown University and the Italian Embassy. Abstracts were due March 31, 2013. Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. TRAVEL GRANTS SPONSORED BY TH...
Nonprofit Italian resource center opens in Cedar Grove
Hundreds gathered at Diamond Spring Restaurant and Beach Club in Nutley to celebrate the launch of Cedar Grove's Sempre Avanti recently. The newly established nonprofit organization serves as a resource center for the Italian and Italian-American community. Above, Sempre Avanti's Executive Director and founder Rosanna Imbriano welcomes the...
This Bitter Earth: Poignant Biography of 'Cheech' Caruso Exposes Tumultuous History of Italian-American Family
In February 1927, Dominic Cheech Caruso transitioned from 'just another' Italian immigrant in New York to the creator of national news after slashing the throat of a young doctor who had been caring for his just-deceased son. While branded as a mobster by the media, Caruso's tragic life story offers a fascinating glimpse into the struggles...
St. Bart's Festival Readies for 40th Anniversary
by John Mooney It started with 200 pounds of chop meat for meatballs, 170 pounds of hamburger meat, and 1,200 pounds of sausage... and that was just a small portion of the food ordered for the St. Bartholomew's Church /UNICO Labor Day Festival when began 40 years ago. Members of UNICO and the parish community literally spent weeks preparin...