Francesco Badocchi officially joins Tony Bennett and the Virginia Cavaliers men’s basketball team
After landing a commitment from Francesco Badocchi just two weeks ago, the Virginia Cavaliers signed the Italian prospect (by way of Kansas) to a national letter of intent. Virginia beat out Illinois for the fast-rising prospect, who was also drawing significant interest from the Kansas Jayhawks. “We are pleased to add Francesco to our 2017 recruit...
Exhibition opening: Back from Italy - May 18, 2017 at 6pm
MAY 18, 2017 AT 6:00 PM - Exhibition Opening. Join the Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Italy, in collaboration with the Association of American College and University Programs in Italy, for an exhibition featuring a variety of designs and projects by architecture students who studied in eleven different American university programs in...
Retired major general to speak at Italian-American banquet
Jack A. Barcelona Jr. will be honored posthumously with the Distinguished Citizen Award at the Italian-American Cultural and Heritage Society of Washington County’s banquet May 21 at the Hilton Garden Inn at Southpointe. Each year, the society honors outstanding individuals of Italian-American heritage who have not only excelled professionally, but...
'Write Your Memoir - Five Minutes at a Time' May 20 at Long Hill Library
Residents are invited to write their memoirs – five minutes at a time – with Dr. Edvige Giunta at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 20, at the Long Hill Township Library, located at 917 Valley Road, Gillette. “Everyone has a story and your family would like to know yours,” the library said in a release. “Maybe you have been thinking about writing your me...
UNICO chapters gather food for Rehoboth-area
The UNICO Chapters of Delaware District 1 sponsored a “St. Joseph’s Table” to celebrate La Festa di San Giuseppe, a centuries old-tradition to help the poor and downtrodden. A weekend-long collection of non-perishable food items was held in March at Saint Edmond Church in Rehoboth Beach, topped off by baskets of bread donated by Old World Breads in...
Neumann president Dr. Rosalie Mirenda’s work ethic comes from South Philly roots
“I’m not an early, early riser,” Dr. Rosalie Mirenda says. “I like to be in my bed until 6 o’clock or so, and then I get up to exercise.” Mirenda, 79, is the outgoing president of Neumann University, a co-ed, Catholic Franciscan school with a verdant campus in Aston, Pa. The school’s fifth president and the second layperson to hold the job, she pla...
UNICO – Italian tradition and service to those in need
Of all the organizations and groups that make up the community in Carbondale, none are quite so visible or quite so busy as UNICO. UNICO as a whole found its beginnings in Connecticut in 1922. The mission was to have an Italian American organization that could provide their service to charitable causes, support students pursuing higher education, a...
Big springtime doings in Glenside, Thornton, Lansdowne
Co-owners Marc Petrosino and Michael Latini of Monkey Boys Productions located in a former steel warehouse in Glenside, Pa., are puppeteers, designers and fabricators. They create puppets, props, creatures, costumes, practical effects and entertainment for film, TV and stage. On a visit to the Press Club, President Peg DeGrassa heard firsthand how...
Author to discuss Sinatra book at Italian American Heritage Club meeting
The Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon County will hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 6:45 p.m. at The Farmhouse at The Grand Colonial on Rt. 173 in Asbury, New Jersey. Author, Richard Muti will be the guest speaker. He will speak about his new book, Cent' Anni - The Sinatra Legend at 100. This fascinating new Sinatra...
An Ocean Apart for 70 Years, Sons of Italian POW Meet
Half-brothers Victor Fogelsonger and Roberto De Angelis met for the first time this week - more than 70 years after their father was swept up in World War II. The brothers have wanted to meet since learning about each other in 2009."I'd always wanted a brother," Roberto said. "This news came, and I had a brother. A big brother at that - four month...
NJPAC Presents Vic DiBitetto
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents two opportunities to have an evening with Vic DiBitetto in the Victoria Theater - first on Friday, January 26, 2018 at 8:00pm and again on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 8:00pm. A grand prize winner on America's Funniest People, frenetically fantastic comedian Vic DiBitetto – aka “The Italian Hurric...
The boy from Pittsburgh who won the 1924 Giro
Rain fell first, down in the valley, then turned to snow. Tiny ice pellets battered down on the wool-clad back of a boy from Pittsburgh as he rode alone over the day’s second major pass, the 5,000-foot Forca Capanine. He stuffed a newspaper in his jersey and continued onward, down into the storm. By the finish of the Giro d’Italia’s eighth stage, h...