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Umberto’s, a pizzeria chain with a presence on Long Island that goes back 52 years, opened a restaurant on Plandome Road on Sunday. The stretch of dining and retail places in the heart of Manhasset already plays host to Italian restaurants like Gino’s, Villa Milano and Randazzo’s. “Let the great Manhasset pizza war commence,” said the Twitter accou...

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A taste of Italian lifestyle is coming to Nassau Coliseum in September, and tickets for the event go on sale Friday. Italia Vera: The Ultimate Italian Lifestyle Festival will land at the Coliseum for one day only on Sept. 9, but with two sessions: one at 12:30 p.m. and one at 5:30 p.m. The event will transform the Coliseum into a slice of Italy, fe...

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Stony Brook Football was getting ready to fly up to Maine for a game that weekend. The team lugged several trunks filled with extra uniforms, helmets, cold weather gear, tape for trainers — the standard haul for a road game. But the team was to fly on a smaller plane than they are accustomed to and would therefore not take all the trunks that they...

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Spring is here, and one Italian restaurant is celebrating the season with a new menu. Oro Restaurant & Lounge, located at 41-17 Crescent St., has made authentic Italian cuisine a highlight of its menu since opening its doors in Dutch Kills last August. This month, under the helm of executive chef Scott Andriani, the restaurant is introducing a slew...

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"How Pasta Fazool is Destroying Your Heritage". March 17 (Friday)   7:30 pm. Italian American Studies Association Long Island Regional Chapter Meeting. Speaker: Donna Chirico, Ed.D., Professor of Psychology, and Dean of Arts and Sciences, York College, CUNY.  In this lecture, Professor Chirico will focus on how language influences the development o...

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“When you’re here, you’re family,” claims a well-known national chain. But Olive Garden has nothing on Long Island’s homegrown family-style Italian restaurants, where countless thousands of hungry diners share enormous platters of linguine and clams, veal Parmesan, clams oreganata, Caesar salad and other stars of the Italian-American repertoire. Th...

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The Italian American Museum Cordially invites you to attend to "My Grandma's American Dream: From Italy to a New Life". Thursday, February 2nd, 6:30 PM Presented by: Anthony DiFranco. Light Refreshments Will Be Served. The film is a personal tale of the immigrant generation of a century ago who helped make the world we live in and the people who li...

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September 20 (Saturday) 2:00 pmUMBERTO E by Anton Evangelista Anton Evangelista, an award-winning filmmaker and actor, will present a documentary on his father, Umberto Evangelista. The film is a tender story of his 90 year old father which shows his triumphs and his personal struggles, his journey as an orphan in Italy and as a young immigrant, h...

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When we heard Chef Rocco Sacramone, of Trattoria L'Incontro, had partnered with Tommy Demaraso, owner of Cavo restaurant and lounge in Astoria, for a new venture in Long Island City, we were really excited.   Ask any hardcore Queens foodie where to find the best Italian fare in the borough, and there is a fair to middlin' chance that the nam...

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By Abigail Gepner, Jazmin Rosa and Sophia Rosenbaum   Pokémania is running wild throughout New York, as players of the world's hottest video-game app go on scavenger hunts that include trespassing, office feuds and walking head-on into poles. The Pokémon Go game is even helping some city pizzerias roll in the dough as owners figure out...

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