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by Wilson Conde   Jersey City's Casa Columbo is inviting history buffs and fans of crime mysteries to a book signing with Hoboken author Holly Metz, who will discuss her book "Killing the Poormaster" at the 4 p.m. event on Nov. 16. Fran DePalma-Iozzi, Casa Colombo's programming chair, said the book chronicles the death of a Hoboken welf...

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Tra il 1890 e il 1930 quando operò a New York Ellis Island, porta d'ingresso per gli emigrati d'oltreoceano, si calcola che approdarono negli USA 5 milioni di italiani. Un esodo imponente che giocò un ruolo importante perfino nell'influenzare le musiche delle genti d'America e per mettere in piedi un vera e propria industria discografica appos...

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Thursday, October 9 Dolores DeLuce, "a five-foot diva in six-inch heels," takes us on the bumpy ride from a bleak New Jersey childhood through her escape to the refuge of the tumultuous post-Stonewall days in 1970s Los Angeles and gay San Francisco. After giving birth to a mixed-race daughter and being rejected by her Italian-American family, DeLu...

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November 5, 2015 - Thursday 7:00 PM. Jewish Community Center - 3200 California Street - San Francisco, California 94118. Everything You Need to Know to Be a Great Italian Cook. In conversation with Delfina co-owner Craig Stoll   Teaching has always been a passion for Lidia Bastianich, best-selling cookbook...

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It has just been announced that Universal Pictures has bought the rights to the Santangelo book series, dosage and will develop feature films based on the character Lucky Santangelo. The book series, written by Jackie Collins, is comprised of nine novels with one spin-off. The story follows the daughter of Italian-American gangster, Gino Sant...

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Hardcover- Size 22x22cm (9x9in)132 pages with color photos - EnglishISBN 978-88-96059-35-7March, 2015- By Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn   This engaging everyday Italian cookbook features simple recipes highlighting fresh, seasonal, local and healthy ingredients. Italian food is simple, tasty and zesty. You can whip up a mouth-wate...

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By Sam Tanenhaus   The dubiously accused almost always disappoint, once their full stories are told. It is the crime that magnetizes our attention. Remove the stain of guilt, or at least of strong complicity, and what's left? One more casualty, and casualties don't command interest. They spread unease. And so it is with Amanda Knox — the Sea...

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By Emily Younker Italian author Fabio Geda will be the featured speaker at several lectures and book-signing events scheduled at Missouri Southern State University this week. Geda is the author of the notable nonfiction novel "In the Sea There are Crocodiles," which has been translated into more than 30 languages and adapted into a play.  ...

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The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, once home of Antonio Meucci, the true inventor of the telephone and his houseguest, the Italian patriot, Giuseppe Garibaldi, is proud to announce the cooperation with L'Idea Magazine and to present their first Literature Series article with a husband and wife team: John and Nancy Petralia, Co-Authors of Not in a Tuscan...

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By Paul Moses   Early in the Irish-Italian romance portrayed in the new film "Brooklyn," a precocious 8-year-old boy serves up the truth that everyone else gathered around the dinner table in his Italian family hid from the young Irishwoman visiting their home.   "We don't like Irish people," little Frankie says, much to the embarrass...

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