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Over 50 artists from around the world have set up camp on the streets of Little Italy and have begun creating works of art with chalk this weekend. The Madonnari Festival is food, of course, music, and magnificent works of art in chalk. The festival runs beginning Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The artists are here to create and compe...

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Italy is the source of some of the finest delights our senses can enjoy: espresso, pizza, pasta, gelato, wine and much more! For this reason, there are many “Little Italys” outside the motherland that bring together what we love about one of the star models of European quality. Who doesn’t love phenomenal coffee, incredible food and wonderful compa...

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Look at the corner of Broome and Orchard on Google Maps and you might think that the Lower East Side is gentrifying far more rapidly than you imagined. The Street View images, taken in November of last year, show an Italian music store, a fish market, a cheese store, a grocery and a hardware store– none of which are there just months later. Should...

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Jerry Krase has spent nearly fifty years visiting and photographing dozens of places in America and a few foreign cities that boasted about having an identifiable Italian neighborhood. From Boston and New York City to Portland, Maine and Wilmington, Delaware. He discovered they shared many visual characteristics and made similar claims about their...

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Day two of the Little Italy Festival has wrapped up for the night. The fun picks back up on Sunday. On Saturday, activities started bright and early with the Little Italy 5k. The South Vermillion Middle School Dance Team and the Clinton Breakfast Optimist Club hosted the event. The one mile and 5k was open to all runners of all ages. For many, the...

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If Italian immigration to Los Angeles is a little-known chapter in the history of Italian immigration to the U.S., then Italian immigration to San Pedro, 20 miles south of downtown L.A., may be an even more obscure component. And yet, this coastal community located on the southern end of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, encompassing in part the Port of...

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A jazz superstar and a boxing champion have been added to a mural in upstate New York. Grammy Award winner Chuck Mangione and ex-welterweight and middleweight world champion Carmen Basilio were added to Rochester's Little Italy Wall Mural on Sunday. The two city natives join other notable Italian Americans, including Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, f...

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The 92nd Annual Feast of San Gennaro will be held in NYC’s historic Little Italy, the lower Manhattan neighborhood which served as the first home in America for hundreds of thousands of Italian immigrants. The Feast kicks off on Sept. 13 along Mulberry Street, and lovers of all things Italian will flock to the former immigrant enclave to celebrate...

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In the 1800s,Los Angeles used to have a vibrant Little Italy located in the historic center of the city, a place today known as El Pueblo de Los Angeles. In this very area two streets were named after two Italian pioneers, Nicola Quierolo and Giuseppe Garibaldi, leaders of the Italian unification and, starting from the 1900s, the Italian community...

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Cleveland's Feast of the Assumption celebration is celebrating 120 years Wednesday, August 15, through Saturday, August 18 at Holy Rosary Church in Little Italy. The annual Feast is a celebration of the Catholic Holy Day, August 15, which commemorates Virgin Mary being taken into heaven. There will be plenty of food, specialty vendors, carnival rid...

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