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Joe Picarelli, the Italian immigrant whose food and hospitality has been a staple of the Long Beach culinary scene for decades, passed of a heart attack at the age of 65 on Sunday, March 22. “He was a great man, brother and restaurateur,” said Councilmember Suzie Price. “He will be greatly missed, but will be remembered often, and never forgotten....

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Seal Beach’s Mark A. Thompson has written an interesting book, “Sinatra’s Tailor.” It’s a biographical novel about longtime Long Beach clothier Umberto Autore, who was orphaned and raised by Italian nuns during World War II. It describes the struggles the lad had growing up, including being shot in the face by a German soldier; how he was reunited...

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Milana's New York Pizzeria in downtown Long Beach, is celebrating their 10-year anniversary on Wednesday, February 19, with a special deal. Milana's will be offering an 18-inch cheese pizza for $10 from 11:30 am to 9:30 pm. This offer is exclusive to the downtown location and is for dine-in or take-out only, the news release said. It's not availabl...

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Looking to satisfy your appetite for Italian fare? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the best affordable Italian restaurants around Long Beach, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to fulfill your urges. 1. Deli News Pizza Topping the list is Deli News Pizza. Located at 5555 Stearns St., Suite 104 in L...

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Following the immense success of last month’s Ducati World Premiere event in Italy, the Bologna-based brand is bringing its newest motorcycles to North America for the first time to display at the Long Beach International Motorcycle Show (IMS) from Friday, Nov. 22 through Sunday, Nov. 24. The public will have the opportunity to be the first in Nort...

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After serving the Belmont Heights community for 50 years, Francelli’s—the Italian-American restaurant that first opened as a market in 1969—has closed up shop, adding to the string of old-school Italian-American restaurants that have closed, including Russo’s last year and Papalucci’s in September. Birthed in the late 1960s by children-of-immigrant...

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Milana’s is Downtown’s New York-style pizza staple—actually, they’re Long Beach‘s New York-style pizza staple. And one thing that has always stuck with me is something its owner, Adriel Fasci, told me years ago when they first opened: “Y’know, if a plain cheese slice can’t hold up on its own, then it isn’t good pizza. Period.” Forthright with a thi...

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Please join us for the Opening of the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies on October 18, 2018. The Donato Center was established on January 21, 2017, thanks to a $1.1 million donation by longtime supporter of Italian Studies, Mario Giannini. Named for the director of the George L. Graziadio Center for Italian...

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Italy’s Daniel Mancinelli won a spirited battle with Finland’s Toni Vilander Sunday in a battle of Ferrari 488 GT3 sports car drivers, scoring his first Pirelli World Challenge GT Sprint race win at the 44th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.Mancinelli, a three-time PWC GT SprintX winner in 2017, drove his No. 31 TR3 Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 mac...

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Caffe Gazelle is so easy to miss, to overlook, to just not see — even though it’s hidden in (almost) plain sight. It sits just a few feet off the happy chaos of Second Street in the heart of Belmont Shore, with frenzied crowds crawling from sports bar to sports bar just a glance away. But it’s on narrow, one-way La Verne Avenue, in an almost nondes...

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