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by Zach Tuggle   Hundreds of people glowing in bright neon colors will run Saturday night through portions of Clarksburg during a charity race that will benefit the West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival. The race — called the Glow in the Square Ultimate 5K Fun Run — is a twist replacing the festival's annual race. "It's definitely so...

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By Giovanni di Napoli There was a tremendous turnout and terrific atmosphere for Sunday's (August 16th) Feast of San Rocco. I'm happy to say our concerns about the new venue were unwarranted, as celebrants (old and new) showed up in force to welcome our beloved patron to his new home at Most Precious Blood Church in historic Little Italy. Bedecke...

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If you're looking for quality original comic song and Broadway musical comedy numbers, you don't need to a book a ticket to New York. Instead, stick around San Francisco and check out Cabaret Comico: A Salute to the Comic Singer & Songwriter mid-November in San Francisco.    The event is presented by the Italian Cultural Institute a...

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A Smartsville 6-year-old and his dad set a grape-squishing record recently when they squeezed 5.1 pounds of juice out of 20 pounds of fruit. The pair had attended the first day of the recent Italian Festa, in Penn Valley, and saw the first heats of the Grape Stomp. They turned the day of family fun into a stomp recon mission.   "We had...

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A long-standing Italian-American tradition, Saint Joseph's Table, is to be held March 20 when the Sons of Italy of Orland Park Leone D'Oro Lodge 2700 and Orland Park Village Trustee Dan Calandriello host a Saint Joseph Table at the Orland Park Civic Center, 14750 S. Ravinia Ave.   The event begins at 1 p.m. and ends at 4 p.m. Food is to be s...

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The festival includes an Italian design installation, Fiat test drives on Thursday evening, a fashion show showcasing Italian bicycles on Friday. The "Mangia Bevi Mercato" features Italian food, wine, and beer tastings including Galbani cheeses, Baci chocolates, Peroni beer and various Italian wines, as well as locally-made products in the Italian...

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Television writer and producer Tom Fontana has been named grand marshal of Buffalo's eighth annual Columbus Day Parade at 1 p.m. Oct. 12 on Hertel Avenue, the Federation of Italian-American Societies of Western New York announces.   Fontana, who grew up in Buffalo and graduated from SUNY Buffalo State, has been a writer and producer of serie...

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by Leona M Seufert   You know that summer has arrived in Roselle Park, New Jersey when the Church of the Assumption's annual St. Anthony Italian Family Feast returns for its 14th year! Once again it will be four days of faith, fun, family and friends, packed full of delicious homemade cooking, an Italian style Café, food venders, a beer &...

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Ten days of great music at the Umbria Jazz Festival, the most important Italian jazz festival returning to Perugia from July 11th through 20th.   Also this year, the theaters and squares of the Umbrian city open to the most popular names on the international scene, such as Herbie Hancock, Natalie Cole, Danilo Rea, Paolo Fresu, Wayne Shorter...

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The Congregation of Maria SS Addolorata announces the 66th Annual Procession and Feast of Maria SS Addolorata, Patron Saint of Mola di Bari, Italy. The Procession will leave Sacred Hearts and St. Stephen's Church at 3:00 PM on Sunday Sept. 14th, 2014.   The church is located at the corner of Hicks and Summitt Street, in the Carroll Gardens s...

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