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While most people gathered around Courthouse Square were dining on pasta and elephant ears at the Italian American Heritage Festival, a large group of runners ran off the calories in the 30th annual Pizza Splash 5k.   Source: http://www.tribtoday.com/  

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The Columbus Day Parade is just a week away, and this year's event will be a tribute to the Italians who provided shelter to Jews who fled Nazi Germany.   Tucked away inside her Lincoln Park Apartment are relics of Dr. Adina Sella's childhood, including the papers her parents used to survive the Holocaust.   Read more   Source:...

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I meet Michael Tortoni at his café, part of his Bennetts Lane Jazz Club in Melbourne's CBD. Tortoni is the Melbourne International Jazz Festival's artistic director and I'm the festival's development manager so waiting to interview the boss is like a D-I-Y dental. Once we started though, it wasn't too tough. Tortoni's youthful face and geek-cool go...

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Honorees have been named for the 2015 West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival. Italian-America Man of the Year: Major General James A. Hoyer. Hoyer is adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard, West Virginia Joint Force headquarters in Charleston. Italian-American Woman of the Year: Dr. Joy Faini Saab. Saab is director of the Offic...

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  Quattro giorni dedicati al cibo. Quattro giorni per capire le nuove tendenze, i nuovi prodotti, scoprire come si muove il mercato interno e in quale direzione vanno i mercati esteri. Tutto questo è Cibus, il Salone internazionale dell'alimentazione, organizzato da Fiere di Parma e Federalimentare.   La manifestazione, giunta alla sua...

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It's called Savor the Arts — "a series of culture-specific events that blend performances with culinary tastings, exhibits, workshops, armchair travel presentations and more" — and it's a multi-sensory whirlwind that begins this weekend, when the Middletown Arts Center (MAC) invites the public to immerse itself in the culture of Italy (and, by exte...

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by Jim Mandelaro The town of Gates will be loud and proud mid-June, as the first Little Italy Festival runs June 12-13 in Gates Memorial Park, 160 Spencerport Road.  There's music, food, a disco party, fireworks and even a lifetime achievement award to Don Alhart, the longtime WHAM-TV news anchor. And a $1,000 prize to the winner of a "Miss L...

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Little Italy was once a vibrant immigrant community, but a lot has changed for the historic downtown neighborhood that used to represent a different Italian region on every block. The area is steeped in rich tradition and history.   With the annual Feast of San Gennaro street party in full swing, take a look back at Little Italy through the...

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First-run local premieres will be the order of the day at the ninth annual San Diego Italian Film Festival (feStivale 2015), scheduled from Thursday, Oct. 15, to Saturday, Oct. 24, with all but one of the films produced in the last two years. Moreover, all but one of the entries are San Diego premieres.   "Going into our ninth year," fe...

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by Valerio Viale   Cinema Italian Style 2015 - annual showcase of the best Italian cinema – opened in big style, on November 11, with a press conference on our official Italian Oscar entry, Non Essere Cattivo (Don't Be Bad, directed by late Claudio Caligari).   Part of the cast: emerging Roman actors, Alessandro Borghi and Luca Marine...

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