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Tuscany: For you does that magical name evoke wine? Art and museums? Magnificent landscapes? Classical literature? Romantic medieval hilltop towns? Or maybe all of the above... While nothing can compare to an evening spent in Toscana, on Friday, March 27, you'll find the next-best thing at the Italian Club as we explore the birthplace of the Italian...

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"My whole life is messed up, geographically," said Paola Pivi recently. The Italian artist's current home is in Delhi, but her "heart is in Alaska," where she lived and worked until four years ago. "It's a forced exile," she explained, referring to the complicated court proceedings that have left her and her husband no choice but to remain in India...

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When Corrado Palmieri was growing up in the "heel of the boot," as he says, he was often elbow-deep in flour as he helped his grandmother bake pastries specific to Southern Italy and his home province of Lecce.   Decades later, after years of business school and working in investment banking, he opened his own Italian coffee shop and bakery...

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by Whitney Filloon   A new addition to culinary theme park Trinity Groves is just weeks away: Saint Rocco's will open its doors on Thursday, September 10. The brains behind Saint Rocco's is none other than Trinity Groves founder Phil Romano, who is of course also the founder of the Romano's Macaroni Grill chain (not to mention Fuddrucke...

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You don't often hear "football" and "bel canto" in the same sentence. How about the same opera? The new production Great Scott, which premiered Friday at the Dallas Opera, pulls that off with a meta-story of sorts: It's an opera about a struggling opera company, whose future just happens to hinge on the outcome of the Super Bowl.   If...

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Phillip J. Jones, president and ceo Dallas convention & visitors bureau, ha incontrato in Triennale la stampa italiana per fare il punto della situazione sul capoluogo texano.   «Per quanto riguarda il mercato italiano, i numeri sono stabili. L'Italia si attesta al quinto posto come outgoing europeo e al dodicesimo nella classifica mondi...

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An opening date has arrived for the long-in-the-making CiboDivino Marketplace and Caffe, at the Sylvan Thirty complex in Oak Cliff: Monday, May 4. Owned and operated by chef Daniele and Christina Puleo, CiboDivino is an Italian eatery, market and bar featuring prepared foods, pizza, wine and coffee.   A native of Sicily, Puleo is the former...

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Highland Village chef Morris Salerno basked in the limelight this year. He won a gold medal in the 2014 Expogast Culinary Competition in Luxembourg, was featured on the new reality show The Hungry Investors and has nearly completed his second cookbook.   The Expogast Culinary Competition is considered the second most prestigious competition...

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by Whitney Filloon   Mi Piaci shuttered last month after two decades in Dallas, and now the Preston Center spot it vacated is poised to become another Italian restaurant called Cucina Neighborhood Italian.   Construction permits were spotted in the window yesterday, posted right up alongside the landlord's lockout notice that ousted M...

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On Tuesday, September 8 the Club will be open for a special reception hosted by the Board of Directors. Elena Sgarbi, the Italian Consul General, will be in Dallas and we will hold a special reception for all of us to meet her, enjoy time with her and say Benvenuto. Along with Counselor Sgarbi will be Vincenzo Acrobelli and Mary Ann Webster, two lo...

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