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One of Bensonhurst's time-honored traditions, the Santa Rosalia Feast on 18th Avenue, will have a different look in 2014, if the city goes along with a set of recommendations made by Community Board 11.   The community board is asking the city to shorten the route of the Italian-flavored street fair by two blocks, District Manager Marnee Eli...

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Join us for an evening of staged reading excerpts from two plays written and performed by two talented Italian-American women; Chiara Montalto and Lauren LoGiudice.

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Near the end of the 19th century, Italian-America cuisine was invented by housewives from regions like Campania, Apulia, and Sicily who arrived in America to find many of the ingredients they were accustomed to cooking with simply not available.   Cured pig products, fresh herbs like rosemary and sage, capers, foraged mushrooms, canned Itali...

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By Pete Wells   David Sclarow built his first wood-burning pizza oven so he could feed guests at the wedding of two cheesemakers. They were getting married some distance from Brooklyn, where he lived, so he layered the bricks and concrete on top of a flatbed trailer that he could hitch to the back of his Volkswagen Doka.   The next ti...

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By Anthony Noto Cable television magnate Rocco Commisso has purchased a majority stake in professional soccer club the New York Cosmos. According to Sports Illustrated, the purchase was contingent on extending the team's division status for the North American Soccer League (NASL) in 2017. Once that was sanctioned, a deal was cut with Seal Spo...

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By Paula Katinas   College-bound high school students are being urged by Brooklyn state legislators to apply for college scholarships being offered by a group of lawmakers.   The New York State Conference of Italian-American Legislators is accepting applications for four $2,000 scholarships to be awarded at the group's Legislative Con...

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Il Bolognino d'oro, sbarca negli Stati Uniti e, precisamente, al Millenium Theater di Brooklyin a New York. La nota rassegna canora, ideata dal musicista e cantautore guardiese Alfredo Scogna, è stata infatti selezionata tra i cinque concorsi canori nazionali che rappresenteranno la nostra penisola al prestigioso Festival della Canzone Italiana di...

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More photos here     Fonte: Magna Grece    

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September 29, 2013 - Procession 3:00 PM - Mass 4:00 PM Club Carinesi D'America - 7618 17th Avenue - Brooklyn, NY 11214   The procession, organized by Club Carinesi D'America, will begin at the society's clubhouse (7618 17th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York) and make its way through the neighborhood for Mass at Our Lady of Guad...

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By Dennis Sadowski   Catholic parishes are called to build communion with immigrants and newcomers so people unite in faith rather than solely because of their cultural backgrounds, said the bishop of Brooklyn, N.Y., who has worked for 38 years to improve immigrant relations.   Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, former executive director of Mi...

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