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by Johnathan L. Wright The annual splatter free-for-all — aka the grape stomp — is a mainstay (stain-stay?) of the Eldorado Great Italian Festival. Back in the day, the stomp was held on South Virginia Street, and the Eldorado had to pay to clean any storefronts splashed with the inky (and incredibly staining) juice and flesh of Alicante Bous...

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Fazoli's®, the nation's largest fast casual Italian chain, is celebrating its first annual "Italian for the People Day" on Saturday, March 12, 2016, in promotion of its new menu items by honoring guests with a special limited-time offer, with purchase of a new menu item, valid at participating Fazoli's nationwide.   During the week of March...

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Whom would you expect to bump into at the World's Biggest Bowl of Spaghetti? Of course, it's Joe Piscopo from Saturday Night Live! Joe is a celebrity, and so is this pasta. It's served in a bowl that's eight feet in diameter.   It has 500 pounds of pasta, 150 gallons of sauce, or as they call it gravy and 50 pounds of cheese. That'...

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This year's Italian Festival will be held a week earlier than usual — this Saturday and Sunday on May 14-15. Italian Festival Committee member Bobby Lenardo said volunteers decided to move this year's festival up a week to avoid conflicting with McAlester High School activities scheduled at the site the following week.   Those organizin...

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October 11 (Saturday) Doors open at 6:00 pm"An Italian Festival Night"Featuring the classic Neapolitan music of tenor, Antonio Guarna, and a special choreography by "The Dance House of Brooklyn" Performers.St. Simon and Jude (Lower Church) - 295 Avenue T (between Van Sicklen and Lake Streets), Brooklyn Admission: $50 per person, includes hot...

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Festa Italiana returns to Pioneer Courthouse Square August 27, 28, 29. For 24 years we have filled "Portland's Piazza" with great food, wine gardens, entertainment, dancing and family fun. Nothing like a summer night in our piazza!   Great Italian food from local Italian restaurants. Maybe try a little pasta or pizza before the gelato a...

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by R.A. Monti   Every year, the pressure mounts just a little more on John DiCola and the rest of the Festa Italiana di Vandergrift organizing committee. The festival, which begins at 10 a.m. Aug. 16 with a Catholic Mass, is known for bringing in big-name acts each year.   "People expect us to have big names," says DiCola, who he...

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by Silvia Donati The star of Italian Carnival celebrations! The first official record declaring Carnival a public celebration in Venice dates to 1296, when the Senate of La Serenissima made the day before Lent a holiday of fun and merrymaking.   In this respect, masks have always been a central component of the Venetian carnival, used to te...

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Si terrà il prossimo 22 settembre, la sesta edizione del Festival della Canzone Italiana di New York. Cinque cantanti provenienti dall'Italia e cinque dal resto del Mondo si sfideranno per il concorso organizzato dall'Associazione Culturale Italiana di New York, da anni impegnata nella promozione della cultura e della lingua italiana in America. La...

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Each year Italian Festivals of New Mexico produces the NM Italian Film & Culture Festival to raise funds for the state's only hospital dedicated to the care and treatment of newborns, infants and children.   The 2014 week-long celebration of Italian cinema and culture resulted in a donation of $26,000. It was presented to the Hospital du...

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