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Una parte del quartiere di San Pedro, a Los Angeles, è stata rinominata “Historic Little Italy”. La decisione è stata ratificata dal Los Angeles City Council il 27 giugno scorso. Ne dà notizia il Comites di Los Angeles, spiegando che la mozione è stata presentata da Joe Buscaino, italo-americano e rappresentante di San Pedro nel consiglio.  La mozi...

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"Trivial Pursuit" Italian-Style, Presented by "La Dolce Vita University" at Capri Ristorante, 145 Mulberry Street, NY, NY . Tuesday July 24th at 7:oo PM. Test your knowledge and discover surprising new facts and intriguing insights about "The Boot!"  An entertaining evening for anyone in amore with Italy and its rich culinary & cultural gifts. Carl...

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The war was getting really heavy, and a man in an officer’s uniform came to our door. He said, “I have some papers here, and I want you to read these. You have to leave your home and go to Oklahoma, and you’re going to go into a concentration camp. We’re going to take all the people who live near the waterfront because you’re too dangerous.” I said...

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Six thousand families of Genovese and Sicilian origin once called this home. The salty sea air, ready-made port, date palms, bougainvillea, geraniums, olive trees, and cactus plants reminded many Italians of their sunny fishing villages back home. They painted their tiny wooden bungalow homes the colors favored by their ancestors. They built their...

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San Diego’s highly anticipated Little Italy Food Hall makes its debut inside the Piazza della Famiglia on Thursday, July 12, at 3 p.m. San Diego-based hospitality group Grain & Grit Collective — an extension of Sweet 100 that helped develop and expand local brands including Carnitas’ Snack Shack and Broken Yolk Café — gathered a collection of six r...

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Some 50 pilgrims endured the scorching heat Sunday evening to celebrate the Titular Feast of the Shrine Church of the Most Precious Blood (113 Baxter St.) in Little Italy, New York. Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite was sung by the Very Rev. Msgr. Cav. Joseph Ambrosio, Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Newark, New Jer...

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If you’re in the mood for top notch Italian food, the new Vaticano Restaurant in Fort Erie will most definitely scratch that itch. But be warned: this Italian restaurant is extremely Italian, like, to an almost comical degree. While having dinner with my wife there recently, we heard Dean Martin’s ode to pizza pies, That’s Amore, not once, not twic...

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A section of San Pedro was dubbed Historic Little Italy on Wednesday, June 27, by the Los Angeles City Council. Councilman Joe Buscaino, who is of Italian descent and represents the San Pedro area, introduced the motion calling for the designation, which will include the installation of street signs at key intersections. The motion says that the hi...

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After 70 years in Italian America, I am still searching for the “Queen of Little Italy.” No, she’s not one of those lovely young ladies who reign over the Columbus Day Parade. My queen was short and stout and tough, and she packed a gun. She died in 1920. In her day, she controlled more votes than any other woman in Chicago. She was a midwife who d...

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Colombo Bank has announced it will merge with FVC Bankcorp. Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, Colombo serves four locations, including the branch on Albemarle Street in Little Italy. First known as Apicella Bank, it opened in summer of 1914 in Little Italy. Advocating the banking needs of the neighborhood and community, the bank was, and contin...

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