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Richard Orlando Biondi was born in Endicott, New York, in 1932 to Rose and Michael Biondi, a homemaker and a fireman. Growing up in the Italian neighborhood known as The Nob, Dick described himself as a kid who was always yakking. A devout Catholic, he intended to enter the priesthood. But things changed when 8-year-old Dick discovered a local radi...

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Thursday, January 24, 2019. 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST. Italian Cultural & Community Center, 1101 Milford St., Houston, TX 77006. RSVP here. The ICCC will present a short lecture and screening of the film "Primo Levi's Journey" as we remember the victims of the Holocaust. Each year on January 27, the United Nations remembers the many people of Jewish or...

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Tuesday, January 8, 2019 | 7:00 pm. Italian Cultural & Community Center, 1101 Milford St. Houston, TX 77006. $10 ICCC Members | $15 Non-members. Get tickets here. Join us at the ICCC for a special presentation on the contemporary Italian artist Ezio Gribaudo, a painter, sculptor, and graphic artist, whose award winning production has been recognize...

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Rows upon rows of hills laced with vines intermingle with the curves of the G-clef: the history that has developed in Salaparuta is one-of-a-kind. With just under two thousand inhabitants, this municipality of Trapani is the symbol of the 1968 earthquake that occurred along the river Belice and destroyed the town’s historic center; but only a few p...

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Dal Texas un riconoscimento per Dallas in Prizzi: il documentario diretto dal regista siciliano Luca Vullo e prodotto dallo psichiatra americano Dave Atkinson, sull’esperienza di contaminazione culturale tra la Sicilia e il Texas, è stato premiato come Best Documentary Film al West Texas Film Festival di Odessa. La giuria della manifestazione cinem...

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Two years ago Joe LaRocca, film director and instructor at Boston College, had finished the script and cast most of the actors for his short film, except one. LaRocca struggled finding the right actor for the lead character Robert, a high school teenager who is pressured by older classmates to set off a smoke grenade in the school’s bathroom. An id...

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Richard Orlando Biondi was born in Endicott, New York, in 1932 to Rose and Michael Biondi, a homemaker and a fireman.   Growing up in the Italian neighborhood known as the Nob, Dick described himself as a kid who was always yakking.  A devout Catholic, he intended to enter the priesthood.   But things changed when eight-year-old Dick, while spendin...

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Every year, The Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum selects and funds eight documentaries that depict and explore the Italian-American experience for the benefit of future generations. The number of applications received nearly doubled from last year, and the committee was inspired by the host of resonant topics covered within the proposed f...

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The life of Philadelphia filmmaker Robert Patriarca has been measured in cannoli. So, his audiences may find it hard to believe the 28-year-old Frankford native didn’t actually consume the Italian pastry until he was 14 years old. “We grew up without cannoli in our household,” he recently confided, while sitting amid copious amounts of the tube-sha...

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From his apartment overlooking New Haven’s Wooster Square and St. Michael Church, freelance writer and film maker Steve Hamm began noticing how many funeral processions went past in August 2017. St. Michael’s is where the old Italian-American families worship, and Hamm realized that with each funeral a lifetime of memories and stories about the old...

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