Ambasciatore Phillips: Nostro legame forte, vibrante
"Il legame tra Stati Uniti e Italia è forte e vibrante" come dimostrato dalla visita del presidente Giorgio Napolitano alla Casa Bianca e da quella del segretario di Stato, John Kerry, a Roma. "Ma sono i legami tra le nostre popolazioni a dare risalto alle relazioni tra i due Paesi". E' questo uno dei passaggi del discorso di John Phillips, il nuov...
Nissoli (SC): Per evitare la chiusura di Newark mi appello al Ministro Bonino con il mio collega Americano Pascrell
Deputata di Scelta Civica eletta in Nord America, Fucsia Nissoli, dopo l'interrogazione alla Camera sulla chiusura del Consolato italiano a Newark, non demorde e torna alla carica coinvolgendo l'on. Bill Pascrell, membro del Congresso USA, eletto nel New Jersay dove si trova Newark. Infatti i due parlamentari hanno inviato una lettera-appello al M...
New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera to Hold Auditions for La Traviata, La Bohème at Bergen Performing Arts Center
The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) under the leadership of Artistic Director Lucine Amara invites professional, amateur, and retired professional soloists of all vocal categories to audition for roles in the opera company's 2014 productions. Solo roles are available in the company's new productions of Giuseppe Verdi's La T...
Il Galata Morente: un antico capolavoro romano dai Musei Capitolini di Roma
La National Gallery of Art, Roma Capitale e l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington presentano una delle opere più celebri dell'antichità, il Galata Morente, un'antica scultura romana risalente al primo o secondo secolo d.C., che viaggerà per la prima volta da più di due secoli al di fuori dell'Italia. La mostra, che si terrà dal 12 dicembre 20...
Italian Festival Home Winemakers Competition Returns This Year!
This year, we welcome your homemade entries in the red, white, or cordial categories. (Cordials include anisette, fruit wine, limoncello & others.) All entries must be presented in 750ml bottles. Bottle must be labeled as follows: name of contestant, item type, & year made. Contestants may enter no more than two (2) entries per cat...
Scholarships, Financial Assistance
AC Cugini is committed to working with every family to make this opportunity available to all qualified players on our travel teams or recreational teams. We never turn away any child due to a family's inability to pay fees. Scholarships are available to players who are residents of Fairfax County and have illustrated financial need. Assis...
Special exhibit in Wilmington offers Italian art as seen through apps
Paolo Russo's work lives at the intersection of technology, innovation and art. Russo, who calls Rome, Italy his home, frequently travels to Delaware for work. This is all part of his job as general secretary of Stati Generali dell'Innovazione, a nonprofit association that lobbies to promote Italy's innovation. For months, he has been wor...
Con il Coccia Institute della MSU, nel New Jersey si perfeziona l'insegnamento dell'italiano
Venerdì scorso il Coccia Institute e il dipartimento di spagnolo e italiano della Montclair State University, nel New Jersey, hanno tenuto il loro settimo simposio sull'insegnamento dell'italiano. L'evento è stato organizzato dalla professoressa Enza Antenos, Deputy Chair of Italian della Montclair, e da Mary Ann Re, PhD., direttrice del C...
Diners flock to V&M Italian Bistro
On a frigid Friday evening, a milling crowd gathers outside the front door of Vincenza & Margherita Italian Bistro. Inside, couples, standing in the foyer or camping on couches near the hostess stand, juggle glasses of red wine in one hand and bulky winter coats in another. Every stool is occupied at the lively bar where a bartender sprinkles a...
Informal Dining: Martino's Market in Hackensack
by Elisa Ung Italian, with verve. I was barely through my first plate from the $15 all-you-can-eat buffet at Martino's Market in Hackensack and already the questions were piled up in my head: How did this chicken Parmigiana become so tender? Who made this sausage that brims with fennel seeds in every bite? What gave this ordi...
Tracing the roots of Matawan’s Italian immigrants
By Kayla J. Marsh As a child, Gloria Bucco remembers her father telling her stories about older relatives who left Italy to settle in the small town of Matawan, New Jersey. "Stories are an important part of life, we tell them all the time and sometimes don't even know it," she said in an interview Aug. 17. "My father very much wan...
Jews of Sicily: A Forgotten History, with Sergio Calderella
January 28 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm. Bridgewater JCC - 775 Talamini Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807The saga of Jewish history has no simple chapters, and the chapter on Sicilian Jews is certainly no exception. While the histories of Galician, Indian, and Japanese Jews have been studied extensively, one of the oldest communities of the Diaspora has...