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L'Italian American Museum di New York (Mulberry street 155) ospiterà il 1° agosto alle ore 18.30 il duo musicale di fisarmonicisti formato da Dominic Karcic e Ray Oreggia per una performance dedicata alla musica "Valtaro Musette".   I due da tempo si esibiscono e presentano questo tipo di tradizione musicale, rivolgendosi in particolare ad a...

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"Waiting for Yesterday (Pages from a Street Kid's Life)," by Michael Parenti, tells his perspective of growing up as an Italian American in New York City in the post WWII era and it came to our attention right after we purchased a copy of "Were You Always an Italian (Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America)?"   by Maria Laurino at the S...

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Little Italy will soon have a new spot for sipping wine and nibbling on appetizers. Pane e Vino is set to open in a South High Street property directly next door to Cafe Gia, an Italian restaurant owned by Gia Blattermann along with her husband, the restaurant's executive chef, Gianfranco Fracassetti.   The location is not a coincidence. Bla...

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Get your shopping list in order for Winter Wonderland Art Walk in Cleveland's historic Little Italy Neighborhood on December 4 (6-9p), 5 (1-9p) & 6 (1-5p). In addition to a long history of Italian food & Italian traditions in this neighborhood, like the Feast of the Assumption and the Columbus Day Parade, there has been a long-standing supp...

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When you think of "Little Italy," you may picture the well-known Italian American neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan and the Bronx — but did you know that there are hubs of Italian culture in almost every corner of New York City?   Following their mass immigration to New York in the late nineteenth century, Italian Americans dispersed throu...

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A East Harlem, dove nei primi del novecento nacque la più grande Little Italy degli Stati Uniti, sarà intitolata una strada a Vito Marcantonio, il politico di origine lucana (il nonno emigrò in America da Picerno) rimasto nel cuore della gente per le sue battaglie per i diritti civili e l'integrazione dei migranti e delle minoranze etniche. L'impe...

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Many consider cooking a form of art. And few would deny that what Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi are concocting in their kitchen at Torrisi is anything less than that. But they, along with their partner Jeff Zalaznick, have extended their art beyond the kitchen. What is fine dining in NYC? What can be novel or innovative in an industry drowning in...

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In honor of their grandmothers who were devotees of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mary Ann and Francis Blattermann, residents of Little Italy, donated a beautiful Our Lady of Mount Carmel statue to St. Leo's Church.   The statue will rest in a permanent niche in the back of the church near the elevator. When she was a child, Mary Ann Blattermann said...

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Presented by Salvatore J. Turchio, M.S.Ed., State Historian - Grand Lodge of New Jersey  - Order Sons of Italy in America. You are cordially invited to attend an interactive PowerPoint presentation on the life and legacy of Frank Sinatra, and the cultural impact of his music, philanthropy, social activism, and patrioti...

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By Channing Gray You don't have to be Italian to celebrate Columbus Day. Rhode Islanders of all stripes will be saluting the founder of America with parades, food, fireworks and fun times this weekend. Events are scheduled across the state, from Westerly to Woonsocket, where the annual Autumnfest runs from Saturday through Monday, culminating wit...

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