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  WTI Magazine #76    2016 February 15Author : Augusto Ferraiuolo      Translation by:   Boston's North End is a peninsula of almost 100 acres, half a mile long and wide, confined by the ocean on the north and west sides. Though the ocean can be considered, above all, as a physical frontier, various symbolic meanings have been conferred on it. A...

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SUNDAY OCTOBER 20, 2013   The Greater Baton Rouge American Italian Association is very excited to announce that it is going to have the Columbus Day Festa again this year. The Festa will be held inside the air-conditioned Atrium of the Belle of Baton Rouge.   A limited number of Italian American Maid positions are available to da...

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Festa Italiana! Sacramento's Super Italian Festival – The Festa Italiana 2013 Italian festival in Sacramento California will begin August 3 to the 4th this year at the Croation Center in Sacramento and is an cultural celebration not to miss this August! Expected attendance for the Italian culture festival: 3,500+Festa Italiana! Dates: Saturday, Au...

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More than 35 four-person teams will play bocce Aug. 16 to benefit the Italian-American program at the Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District. The teams will compete under the Veterans Bridge near 13th and Smallman streets in the fifth annual Bocce Tournament and Festival. The festival will feature music by Pure Gold, Jimmy Sapienz...

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by Sarah Hope   Months before winning the mayoral seat he would hold for 40 years, Joe Riley was talking about art. "I remember it like it was yesterday," Riley said, sitting behind his large, crowded desk, reflecting on the Spoleto Festival USA's first 39 years. "What I knew — what I believed — was that a great arts festival, a world-class,...

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Sunday, August 4, 2013 Madonna Del Campo welcoms EVERYONE to their annual religious celebration and feast honoring Our Lady under the title "Lady of the Field." The Italian Experience will begin with 10:00 am Mass at St. Francis/St. Maximilian Church (62811 New Haven Road, east of North Ave. at 29 Mile Road).   A procession will follow Mass...

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Viva L'Italia: the Italian-American Heritage Festival of Iowa will take place on Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26 in Des Moines' Western Gateway Park. The fifth annual event will run from 11:00 a.m. Friday until 1:00 a.m. Saturday morning and from Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning.   This year's Viva L'Italia w...

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by Laura De Marco   Yes, there's cannoli and pizza and gelato and cavatelli and Italian music and flags for sale and more "Parking for Italians Only" and "Sopranos" T-shirts than you can count.   But the 116th Feast of the Assumption is about much more than food – albeit great food – and ethnic pride. It's called a Feast, not a fest,...

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Organizers of Baton Rouge's Columbus Day Festa are ready for the big time. The Greater Baton Rouge American Italian Association is making an effort to push the annual event celebrating its Italian heritage into a regional focus, and that starts this year with a performance by Deana Martin.   "(We) want to see this become a larger, regional e...

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A proposal to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is drawing more questions than support in South Bend. Common Council member Henry Davis Jr. has introduced a resolution declaring the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples Day, or Native Americans Day, instead of Columbus Day. Similar changes were made last year in Seattle and Mi...

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