TRADITION HAS it that Italian social clubs in their early years would find great joy getting together to enjoy food, wine, camaraderie and singing Italian songs. The custom was recreated this past ...

Lauren Veca was worried about the meatballs. The 62-year-old doula had insisted on making her mother’s recipe for the Garibaldina Society’s upcoming monthly pasta dinner, but now she was having second ...

The Lake Erie Italian Club in Lackawanna on Sunday will mark the 100th anniversary of its founding with lots of Italian food, music and dance. The club was formed a century ago as a sort of mutual aid ...

The smell of meatballs lingered in the air at the Italian American Club of Jacksonville four days before one of their biggest events of the year, Festa Italiana. A dozen members were gathered at their ...

STAMFORD -- As Italian immigrants flocked to the city's West Side in the 1930s looking for a better life, a group of them formed the Minturnese Social Club in the back of a small grocery store on West ...

A hometown sports standout of the early 20th century will get his due this weekend as Latrobe celebrates Italian-American heritage and culture. Paul Ciotti, one of the organizers of the fourth annual ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Members of the Italian Club of Staten Island Foundation are formulating plans for their 75th Diamond Anniversary Gala Saturday, June 7 at 7 p.m. in LiGreci’s Staaten. To be ...

New Year’s Eve 1924, 10 local men held a dance in the gymnasium of the former St. Joseph’s separate school in Windsor, ...

OAKLAND — Back in 1919, a group of 22 young men from northwest Italy’s Piedmont region got together most evenings at a house in North Oakland to drink wine and play cards and bocce. Similar smaller ...

Early Music, Vol. 40, No. 4 (November 2012), pp. 659-670 (12 pages) Il Mattaccino takes his name from the Italian word matto, meaning 'mad' or 'crazy'. Choreographies called Il Mattaccino and La ...