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by Silvia Simonetti   After a long delay, the much-awaited Master of Arts degree in Italian Studies has been approved by the Academic Senate of the California State University, Long Beach. Strongly supported by the George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies, represented by Chair Clorinda Donato, the new Program will be effective sta...

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By Merrill Shindler   Despite the many gastropubs along Second Street in Belmont Shore that keep the street lively and then some, there's a parallel universe of old-school restaurants, dominated by a fair number of red sauce Italian joints that serve the sort of (mostly) Southern Italian cooking so many of us long for, after many a meal of f...

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Long Beach, California, is better known as the hometown of legendary musicians like Sublime and Snoop Dogg rather than for its influence in the bike industry. But just over a year ago, Long Beach also became home to the US office and warehouse of Italian suspension manufacturer Marzocchi.   The move, which transitioned the brand from Valenci...

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Mario Andretti, the world's most recognized race-car driver, will be honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club at the "RRDC Evening with Mario Andretti presented by Firestone" in Long Beach, Calif., on Thursday, April 10, prior to the running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.   This is the RRDC's sixth consecutive annual banquet honoring...

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"This town is like a little island," says La Parolaccia Osteria Italiana General Manager Mario Guterrez about the East San Gabriel Valley city of Claremont.And Guterrez seems to know each islander by name, extending handshakes and warm greetings to each table as though he's hosting a family reunion. The walls of the dining room are filled with Ital...

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George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies' Clorinda Donato applauded the CSULB Academic Senate's approval of a new Master of Arts degree for Italian Studies beginning next fall at CSULB. "We're all very excited in Italian Studies about the new degree," said Donato, who joined Romance/German/Russian Languages and Literatures in 1988. "The goal o...

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California State University, Long Beach's (CSULB) George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies recently received $100,000 in scholarship endowments to support the program's new Master of Arts degree.   The first of two $50,000 gifts came from businessman Mario Giannini who set up a scholarship fund in 2012 named for his daughters, the Kyer...

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The Gulf Coast Italian American Cultural Society will hold an English/Italian Mass and Homemade Italian Lunch on Epiphany Sunday, Jan. 5, at St. Thomas the Apostle Church and Community Center, 720 East Beach Blvd., Long Beach.   The Mass will be at 11 a.m. and will be concelebrated by the Revs. Joe Dilettuso, Mike Austin and Michael Marascal...

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Carnevale returns with fun for all ages, music performances, shows, Venetian mystery masquerade photography and of course dress up, all with no charge. The Long Beach Carnevale is a masquerade in the true fashion of the carnival of Venice Italy. As the main focus is the many elaborate masked costumes that people show off with as well as the c...

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Music, theater, film, multi-media, mass media and advertising, publishing, artistic renderings, science and technology, and the burgeoning digital humanities have characterized and are changing the way Italian Americans conceive of themselves and how they re-conceptualize and re-signify their identities.   In recognition of this powerful mom...

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