Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade Committee holds annual Taste of Italy Fundraiser
The smell of Italian food came billowing out of Nutley’s Parks and Recreation Building on 44 Park Ave. when the Nutley-Belleville Columbus Day Parade Committee held their annual Taste of Italy Fundraiser.. Trays of food such as sausage and peppers, eggplant parmigiana and rollatini, penne vodka, balsamic glazed sausage, chicken marsala and francais...
Someone defaced the Frank Rizzo mural in the Italian Market. Again.
Over the weekend, the Frank Rizzo mural in the Italian Market was defaced. Again. The three-story high depiction of the former Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner — a controversial figure whose policies many viewed as racist or fascist — is the most commonly vandalized of all Philadelphia murals, according to Mural Arts director Jane Golden,...
Perfumes: an intangible artistic heritage of Italian creativity - June 1, 2017 at 6pm
A conference by Laura Bosetti Tonatto to explore the art of Italian perfumery. A discovery to the techniques, raw materials and creative elements that inspired Laura’s sense of smell in her creations. Italian painting, literature, and cinema can also be detected through scents and be deeply imprinted in our memory. Laura Bosetti Tonatto and her pro...
We ate at Joe Gorga's new Italian restaurant, and it's actually pretty good
We never need an excuse to write about pizza or "Real Housewives of New Jersey," and this week we explore whether those two great tastes taste great together at "RHONJ" star Joe Gorga's new pizza and pasta joint in East Hanover. As the ranking "RHONJ" expert on staff, I brought along Pete Genovese, the Munchmobile czar, Food Dude and chief of the...
Chop House Serves up Authentic Italian Cuisine
Terry and Angela Spinosa's Italian honeymoon inspired the recipes served at their recently opened steakhouse in Winchester. When Terry, 60, and Angela, 40, visited Florence, Rome and the Amalfi Coast four years ago, they were impressed by the delectable beef, brick-oven pizzas and other authentic Italian cuisine that was full of flavor without a l...
Sticks and Stones: Does “Gioglio” Mean “Plumber?” A Genealogical Tale
A Name is a Name is a Name We sat around a table in Moscow’s bar located across street from the playground of my youth, Feaster’s Park in New Brunswick, NJ. It was just us, the men in the family; well, two men, one boy; the adults were Lenny the plumber and Len, Jr. the cop, a New Brunswick Police Officer. We were, as they say, “‘shootin’ the bre...
Feast Day Celebration Honors St. Anthony
The St. Anthony DiPadova Society will be sponsoring their 95th Annual Feast Day Celebration to honor their patron on Sunday, June 4, 2017. The 95th Annual Feast Day Celebration will be held at St. Mary Magdalen Church, Media, Pa. A solemn Mass will be held at 9:30 a.m. with the Statue of St. Anthony, the St. Anthony Society members and the Neglia B...
Medical oddity museum and Italian-American kitsch in Philadelphia
Philadelphia has gotten a lot of tourist mileage out of cheesesteaks and people running up the stairs at the Museum of Art, a la Rocky Balboa. While I wouldn’t want to spoil anyone’s Philly fun, the city is packed with things to do the travel brochures often overlook. I grew up there, and go back at least a half-dozen times each year to visit famil...
Bill of Fare: Villa Francesco's thriving in Pennington
Six years after opening Villa Francesco's in Pennington, the Gonzalez brothers are firmly rooted in the community with a loyal following for their pizza, pasta and traditional Italian dishes. "We love Italian food," said Hernan Gonzalez, who manages the restaurant where his brother Miguel is the chef. "That's why we are here." They got their experi...
Pollini struggles yet shines in Chopin recital at Kennedy Center
Maurizio Pollini won the International Chopin Piano Competition over half a century ago. It launched him on a world-bestriding career that has been prodigious, but he is nearing the end of a brilliant career arc. Health problems forced the Italian pianist to withdraw from recitals in Washington in 2015 and 2011. The Kennedy Center’s Fortas series o...
Philly Art Museum and Italian foundation launch initiative to commission and acquire new works
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has joined with the Turin, Italy-based Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo to commission and acquire new video, film, and performance pieces from artists from around the world, museum and foundation officials announced Thursday. Every two years, the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media – as the joint initiative...
Philadelphia’s Italian Market Holds Annual Festival
There was Plenty to see and eat at this year’s South 9th Street Italian Market Festival. Just about everywhere you looked on Saturday people were enjoying pizza, pasta, sausage and peppers, meatballs and roast pork sandwiches and a whole lot more. “I think the Italian Market Festival is fun because it’s not as cookie cutter as some of the other fes...