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In the last 30 years many of the freshest experiences in the concert hall have been provided by historically aware performances of early music. Sunday afternoon at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts that was clearly the case again, with the bonus of unfamiliar music given a highly individual setting. San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque C...

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When: Monday, April 23, 2018 At 6:00 pm - Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura Chicago - 500 N Michi - What: "ating Ideas, Educating the Senses through Images. The Magazine "La Gola" in 1980s Italy", A Lecture by Professor Margherita D'Ayala Valvais, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Presented on the occasion of the 2018 Year of Italian Food, as dec...

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IA Literati 2018 — Casa Italia’s 14th annual celebration of local Italian-American authors — will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 12 in the Florentine Room of the Italian Cultural Center in Stone Park. Book sales and signings, raffles, and a meet-and-greet with the authors will take place at 9:30 a.m. Authors will read from their works starting...

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Phil Stefani — along with wife Karen and children Anthony and Gina — have opened a restaurant minutes from their home today in Lincolnwood as today’s the first official day of business forStefani Prime. Billed as a restaurant worthy of Chicago’s dining scene, only in the suburbs, Prime brings together steaks, seafood, and classic Italian-American d...

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Jazz singer Paul Marinaro collapsed at Winter’s Jazz Club in December 2017 with a case of diverticulitis so severe it burst his intestines and brought him to the brink of death. Lacking health insurance, Marinaro would have been buried in medical bills were it not for the Chicago jazz community, which rallied support through a GoFundMe campaign and...

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The Italian American Theatre of Chicago presented “Vispetta” in the Community Center at Casa Italia in March. Adapted by Colleen Mraz from traditional 16th-century commedia dell’arte, the farce followed the misadventures of two star-crossed lovers, their clueless parents and their wily servant, Vispetta. True to its commedia roots, the principal ac...

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Caliendo’s Banda Napoletana is aiming to cap off its 45th anniversary year with new uniform hats for its musicians. One of the few authentic Italian festival bands left in America, the ensemble was launched by Raffaele Strocchia in 1926, and is now run by Strocchia’s cousin Marty Caliendo.  “All of the years playing outdoors in virtually every type...

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When: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 At 6:00 pm - Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura Chicago - 500 N Michi - Entrance : Free In anticipation of Third Coast Baroque’s upcoming Vivica & Vivaldi concert series, internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux sits down with TCB Artistic Director Rubén Dubrovsky to discuss the lesser-known but highly vir...

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Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave. Suite 1450 - Chicago, IL. Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT). From its origins in New Orleans through the Big Band, Swing, Be-Bop, and Modern Era, Americans of Italian heritage have made vital contributions to Jazz Music. Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Louie Bellson, Lenni...

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Arriva da Chicago la notizia che i vincitori dell’edizione 2018 del Premio per l’innovazione conferito dall’International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), che sarà ufficialmente consegnato in Australia a giugno durante il meeting annuale della società, sono due ricercatori dell’Unimore: la Prof.ssa Graziella Pellegrini, docente di Biologia A...

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