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Marco Nistico, who has become a familiar performer with Sarasota Opera since his local debut in 2008, is joining the company as the new artistic administrator. Nistico,an Italian-born baritone who appeared in more than a dozen principal roles in Sarasota, had already begun a transition from singing to staging and administrative work. He directed Do...

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Baxter Gallery Miami, the flagship store of the Italian luxury furniture brand Baxter Made in Italy in the Miami Design District, recently welcomed pieces from an award-winning collection, just in time for the arrival of the jet-set New York residents moving to South Florida. Given that Salone Del Milano, the annual world-famous fair in the Italian...

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The Consulate General of Italy reserves one day a week to Italian citizens resident in this Consular District and are enrolled in AIRE, who are under 18 (Kids Day) or at least 70 years old (Silver Day) and need to request a new passport. Italian citizens under the age of 18 or who are at least 70 years old will have the opportunity to request a pas...

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October 12 2020 Roma, Italy / The United States

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That's amore and lots of it for the birthplace of his father in Puglia, Bari from former Team Italy catcher Francisco Cervelli, who announced his retirement from Major League Baseball via Instagram on October 3, 2020. With 13 years of MLB experience under his belt, the 34-year-old Italian-Venezuelan fan favorite played in only 16 games for the Miam...

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Dear CINEMA ITALY friends, we hope you are doing well during these unexpected times. We cannot wait to get together with you again and to distract our minds and souls with diverting Italian movies & fine Italian moments during our film festival. However & unfortunately, we will have to wait a little bit longer as we had to postpone our 18th edition...

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They’re popular in Texas, but this will be the first location in the Tampa area, or Florida for that matter. The Tampa Bay Business Journal reports that a more casual chain called Mandola has four locations right now in Texas. The fifth will be in Riverview. They say it’ll open Mandola’s Italian Kitchen at 12926 US 301 near the Sprouts Farmers Mark...

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When I began writing for Talk Media, I told Editor in Chief Sharon Aron Baron that I would not write about pizza restaurants unless they were doing something unusual or were producing extremely high-quality food. The reasons for this are simple — I don’t eat a lot of carbs, and I rarely eat any pizza at all.  If I am going to eat pizza, it should b...

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Strolling a grocery snack aisle in 1961 in Miami, candymaker Vincent Grimaldi started brainstorming for new ideas to take back to his job at a nearby French confectionery.  Then he spotted a bag of potato chips. “So he goes back and he says, ‘Well, I’m going to try something. I’m going to try doing some potato chips in the chocolate.’ And everybody...

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A local elected official wants to do away with Columbus Day, which is observed the second Monday in October. Omari Hardy, a city commissioner in Lake Worth Beach, says Christopher Columbus is not someone who deserves a holiday. It's often said that Christopher Columbus was a great explorer, but Hardy says there’s another side to him that most kids...

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