Pasquale Nestico con FILITALIA INTERNATIONAL a Kulpmont per la Festa di San Marziale
Il 9 luglio scorso, Filitalia International ha organizzato un viaggio di un folto gruppo di famiglie di origine calabrese per festeggiare il Patrono San Marziale a Kulpmont dove vivono i discendenti dei primi emigranti calabresi ed iscani arrivati nel 1898 con la nave da crociera Stampalia partita da Napoli. Pasquale Nestico, accompagnato da Daniel...
Rita’s Italian Ice Opening in Alameda and More A.M. Intel
Pennsylvania-founded frozen treats purveyor Rita’s is setting up shop in Alameda this fall, nicely timed to the local sunny season. The chain is known for its frozen custard and signature Italian ices, which true fans call by the OG regional name “water ice.” The location, the closest one yet to San Francisco, is the South Shore Center (523 South S...
Sons of Italy awards scholarships
The Sons of Italy Purple Aster Chapter of Absecon and Galloway Township recently awarded scholarships of $1,500 each to three students who will attend college in the fall. The recipients are Andrew Hart of Absegami High School and Giulietta Messina and Anthony Coleman, both of Holy Spirit High School. The students were selected by a committee base...
LI Lodge La Famiglia Scholarship winners announced
The scholarship program committee announced two 2017 scholarships: Victoria Tully is the recipient of the Jerome & Angela Elliott Scholarship ($4,000). Victoria is attending the University of Maryland at College Park, majoring in Public Health; Anna Cuffari is the recipient of the Matricciani/Vondersmith Scholarship ($4,000). Anna is attending Mar...
Italian Street Painting Festival celebrates artists and their work through chalk art
Underemployed artists during the Italian Renaissance took to the streets, typically outside of Cathedrals, to showcase their talents using two materials: chalk and the pavement. For hundreds of years, the sidewalk art pastime died out — until recently. During the 1970s in Southern California, artists once again came back to the streets to convey th...
Supper Club: Giuseppe’s Penn Pizza Co. offers Italian food with Pittsburgh twist
In 2013, the owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers officially declared Port Orange’s Giuseppe’s Steel City Pizza an official “Citizen of Steelers Nation.” A framed copy of that proclamation is proudly displayed at the restaurant now known as Giuseppe’s Penn Pizza Co. You don’t have to be a Steelers fan to be a fan of the food at Giuseppe’s. News-Journa...
New bench installed in bocce court
In memory of Sal Spinnato who grew up in Little Italy, was a bocce player, past president of the Little Italy Lodge, immersed in the parish and neighborhood, and a treasured friend to many, the Spinnato Family purchased and placed a new bench in Little Italy's bocce courts in memory of their brother/uncle/father. Father Bernie Carman, pastor of Sai...
Golf outing benefits scholarship program
The Italian-American Cultural & Heritage Society of Washington County will hold its annual golf outing at 11 a.m. Aug. 12 at Quicksilver Golf Course, Midway. Cost is $125 per golfer and includes golf and dinner. Dinner only is $50. There also will be Chinese and silent auctions. Sponsorships ranging from $25 to $1,000 also are available. Proceeds w...
Opera goes South Philly: DVOC transforms Giacomo Puccini’s Italian comedy “Gianni Schicchi”
For those that think opera is too esoteric, maybe an opera based in South Philadelphia sung in English will sway that notion. The Delaware Valley Opera Company (DVOC), a local opera house that employs emerging talent as well as established singers, has transformed Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” into “Johnny Schicchi,” an Italian comedy about g...
Lupo Italian Kitchen wins Wine Spectator Award
Lupo Italian Kitchen in Rehoboth Beach is one of six restaurants in Delaware to win a 2017 Wine Spectator Award. Lupo, one of SoDel Concepts’ 10 coastal Delaware restaurants, received an Award of Excellence for its assortment of producers and a thematic match to the menu in price and style. Lupo’s all-Italian list, which features up to 100 selectio...
Italian trio visits Suffolk
A few dozen people gathered at a picnic Tuesday evening at the Suffolk Visitor Center Pavilion to meet several guests of honor. The Suffolk Sister Cities group held the membership picnic for members to meet the three members of the Italian youth delegation who are visiting Suffolk this month. Giacomo Matera and twins Daniele and Riccardo Barro, all...
Hammonton's Mount Carmel Italian festival begins 142nd run this week
This town of less than 15,000 residents expects to see a surge of about 70,000 visitors this week during the 142nd Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festival. The weeklong festival, which started Monday but officially begins Tuesday, is billed as the “longest-running Italian festival in the U.S.” and is organized by the independent nonprofit Our Lady of...