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Italy has won the Academy Award for Best International Film 14 times. That’s more than any other country, and it’s part of the reason why Joyce Mariani started the Cleveland Italian Film Festival. Now in its 18th year, the festival returns next month with screenings on three consecutive Thursdays at the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights and At...

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A fundraising dinner for Cleveland’s historic Italian Cultural Garden is Thursday, Sept. 4, at Dante Restaurant in Tremont. Established in 1930, the garden is part of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Money raised will be used for renovations to preserve and enhance its cultural significance.  Recent restoration work, t...

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Thousands will fill the streets of Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood for the 126th celebration of the Feast of the Assumption. Known to locals simply as “The Feast,” the four-day event takes place Thursday Aug. 14, to Sunday, Aug. 17, along Mayfield and Murray Hill roads in the historic neighborhood.  For Catholics, August 15 marks the Assumpti...

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The Cleveland Italian Film Festival 2025 is showcasing award winning films from Italy Sept. 18 – Sept. 25, 2025 at the Cedar Lee Theater and Atlas Cinemas Great Lakes. All films are shown on Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. with the support of Italian Tours & Travel by Diana and media sponsor La Gazzetta Italiana. Sunday, Sept. 4, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. M...

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The June 2025 Donna Distinta Award goes to Pamela Dorazio Dean, a historian, archivist and director of the Italian American Museum of Cleveland (IAMCLE), in recognition of her preservation and celebration of Italian American history and culture. A dedicated leader whose work bridges scholarship, community, and personal legacy, Pamela stands as a po...

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  Il Getty Museum di Los Angeles in California riceve 38 manoscritti italiani, mentre a Cleveland in Ohio si espone la Fata Morgana del Giambologna Amadeo Giannini sarà onorato presso la San Francisco Little Italy Honor Walk in California Il Made in Italy a New York continua a crescere e ad innovare Simone Fontecchio giocherà per i Miami Heat L'Ita...

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Sometimes, finding family information begins in a non-suspecting way! Flight attendant Raymond DiBiasi was having a discussion with his mother about the family lore of being Armenian since having Italian cousins living in Sicily appeared to be a dead issue according to his late grandfather. Raymond’s grandfather implied that there were no relatives...

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Cleveland’s Italian Cultural Garden is presenting “Opera in the Italian Garden” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 27. In addition to music from the Cleveland Opera, attendees will enjoy dance from Cleveland Ballet Theater (not to be confused with The Cleveland Ballet). This year’s presentation at the historic garden includes dancers from New York Ci...

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  L'export agroalimentare italiano verso gli USA a rischio tra dazi e dollaro debole Addio a Joseph Giordano, il chirurgo italoamericano che salvò Ronald Reagan Des Moines, al via la trasformazione della villa che ospiterà l’Italian American Cultural Center of Iowa I guelfi Firenze vincono l’Italian Bowl 2025 giocato a Toledo in Ohio ISSNAF apre le...

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Miceli Dairy is a staple in northeast Ohio and their location in Cleveland, which is where they were founded, has been open since 1949. Maria Miceli, the vice president of marketing for the company, explained their expansion plan. “We’re renting space all over the city for storage, for cold storage, for dry storage and it got to the point where we...

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