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Mayor de Blasio got some practice for his upcoming Italian vacation Sunday, helping to hoist an 80-foot, three ton statue at an Italian festival in Williamsburg.   The mayor turned out for the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Giglio Feast, where organizers egged him on into joining the dozens of men carrying the massive statue known as the Giglio, t...

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By Barbara Jordan ENJOY delicious food and an evening of live entertainment and help light up Hoylake for Christmas! That's the invitation from Marco's New York Italian restaurant which is staging a charity night at 7.30pm on Friday, November 22. The Christmas lights in Hoylake will cost around £2,000 this year and it is hoped half of this will...

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By Marco Ferini Ormai è circondato da negozi cinesi che si moltiplicano di giorno in giorno. Ma l'Italian records della famiglia Naso, aperto nel lontano 1968 sulla 18esima avenue a Bensonhurst a New York, è l'ultima attività commerciale che vende dischi italiani in una zona che viene considerata, forse ancora per poco, la Little Italy di Brooklyn...

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I made a long overdue pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Peace Church (522 Carroll St.) in Gowanus, recipe Brooklyn, Sunday morning for the external solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord. Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Missa Cantata) was sung by celebrant and homilist Fr. Christopher Cullen, who was assisted by several attentive altar servers. Ar...

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È stata un'indimenticabile serata quella tenutasi al Social Club di Castellammare Del Golfo, a Brooklyn, interamente dedicata alla cultura siciliana.   Ricco programma di poesie presentate dal noto poeta Nino Provenzano, vice presidente di Arba Sicula, al quale hanno partecipato anche il prof. Gaetano Cipolla, presidente della medesima Assoc...

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In the season for lost gloves, one mitt found a lot of love. The faithful got to touch one of the gloves Padre Pio used to cover his stigmata during a special mass at St. Finbar Roman Catholic Church in Bath Beach on Feb. 23.   Stigmata are marks resembling the wounds of Christ’s crucifixion said to appear on particularly holy people. The ho...

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Come avrebbe cantato la grandissima Etta James, "At last" Francesca Cavaliere, dopo il secondo posto dell'anno scorso, si è aggiudicata la sedicesima edizione del "Festival of Songs USA" di Silvana Romania.Nella stupenda cornice del El Caribe Country Club di Brooklyn, con un pubblico che ha rimepito la sala, i sedici partecipanti del festival si so...

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There's a brand-new white Whirlpool refrigerator in Cara Nicoletti's apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Ms. Nicoletti, a butcher, a baker and the creator of the literary food blog Yummy Books, is grateful to her landlord for the appliance.   Its predecessor "was gross and old and didn't have any shelf space, and I'd been asking for a reall...

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The great American Italian restaurant has changed in style probably more than any other genre of restaurant over the past several decades.   Even as recently as 50 years ago, the term "Italian restaurant" conjured images of red and white checkered tablecloths, carafes of middling chianti, and a red sauce-heavy menu with classics like chicken...

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The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which has superseded the fabled Madison Square Garden as New York's temple of fistiana, opened for boxing on October 20, 2012. It figured that Paulie Malignaggi would be part of the inaugural show.   The Brooklyn-born Malignaggi is the most famous Italian to bubble out of the Bensonhurst sectio...

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