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It's got pilasters and curved archways and marble statuary and carved fireplace mantles and complicated deco wrought-iron work. In short, the new Villa Bellini in the 1928 building that housed Tio Pepe for decades is a knockout.   There's valet parking, a gracious gaggle of lovely young women at the front desk, bartenders who ask your name a...

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by Rick Zullo   I met Emanuele Pettener back in 2009, and it's safe to say that the meeting changed my life in many ways. I was enrolled in the Italian Studies program at F.A.U. in Boca Raton, Florida where he teaches. The class was Italian Literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, taught entirely in Italian, which at the time stra...

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by Carla Torres   Miami winter is almost over, and we've barely experienced what it feels like to be cold. Does that mean we shouldn't get the pleasure of having winter food? Salumeria 104 doesn't think so. Chef Angelo Masarin likes simple and traditional Italian flavors. For him, no food is simpler than animal parts, which is why he loves c...

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by Nicholas Nehamas   The luxury lineup at Brickell City Centre is growing: developers announced on Tuesday that Italian fashion house Valentino and Swiss watch and jewelry designer Chopard will open shops at the 500,000-square-foot shopping center.   Both brands will open stores on the street-accessible first floor of the four-story...

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by David Fleshler   Imagine an opera company that functions with the cold precision of a touring Broadway musical, and you will have imagined everything that Miami Lyric Opera is not.   At the low-budget company's 2010 production of Puccini's La Bohème, the orchestra played out of tune and the set looked like it had been delivered fro...

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Nancy Maio watched black clouds descend as she and her husband drove to trim pepper trees obscuring a white and red "Alan Maio for Sarasota County Commission" sign.   The clouds burst. Al pruned on. Nancy, dry in the truck, rolled down her window just enough to shout, "You really must want this job!"   Read more   Source:&...

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The Joesph B. Franzalia, Sons and Daughters of Italy Lodge No. 2422, will present the 34th Annual Festa Italiana Columbus Day weekend.   Feast on homemade Italian foods, desserts, cookies, Italian beers and coffee. The festa runs 5-9 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday. There will be Italian novelty gifts, a variety of local vendors...

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We caught up with Andrea and Lucrezia Buccellati inside the bustling, new Buccellati boutique at Bal Harbour Shops during Art Basel Miami Beach. She may be only 26 years old, but Lucrezia Buccellati is at the helm of one of the most distinguished jewelry houses in the world. The sprightly creative is the first female to assume the role of designer...

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In a nod to its new Roman headquarters at the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Fendi will unveil at Design Miaminext month furniture pieces originally designed by Milanese architect Guglielmo Ulrich and conceived seven decades ago, but never actually produced. Fendi has dubbed the project "The other half of the dream. Roma 1940-2015."  ...

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By Mike Hursey Last October, when I was chosen to go to the Slow Food Convention as a U.S. delegate, I wanted to find someone from another country to come to the U.S. to talk about Slow Food and the world food issues. There were more than 650 delegates from 130 countries and 200,000 people at the Slow Food Terra Madre meeting. I did not think I wo...

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