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A friend to the NYC Columbia Association for many years, Tony LoBianco is a Great Performer. His latest show, The Little Flower is an educational, inspirational and comedic one-man show, set in the 1945 City Hall office of Fiorello H. La Guardia, during his final day as three-term mayor of New York City.   The Little Flower presents a h...

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Andrea Bargnani has had an interesting career so far in the NBA. A seven-footer with a repertoire of skills on the offensive end, he was picked first overall in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Toronto Raptors. Before the 2013-14 season, the New York Knicks acquired the Italian for a group of players, two second-round picks and their 2016 first-rounder....

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By Rosa Goldensohn   Marrella Hair Stylists, a barbershop at Port Authority, has shut its doors after 42 years, according to its owner. Michael Marrella, 76, said he was retiring after working as a barber in the bus terminal since 1968, four years before he bought the shop.    "I lived there every day," he told DNAinfo from...

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Chelsea Music FestivalTuesday, June 18, 2013 from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)New York, NY CMF 2013 presents this Chelsea Outbursts concert and special evening at The Italian Academy at Columbia University that celebrates 400 years of music from Italy and Britain. Highlights include a Corelli Concerto Grosso, an oboe concerto by Corelli's great admir...

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di Maurita Cardone   Ha aperto ieri, venerdì 6 settembre all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura, la mostra Slow Design dedicata ai nuovi talenti del design italiano. In esposizione i lavori vincitori del premio Top Young Italian Industrial Designers, fondato da Riccardo Viale, presidente dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura, e curato dall'architetto...

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by Marguerite Preston   Here's a guide to eight great restaurants that are serving that traditional Italian-American Christmas Eve dinner, the Feast of the Seven Fishes. Many have taken the literal route, and are serving seven course meals of octopus, salt cod, clams, and more, but there are also few more condensed meals on the list. ...

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Last month Vinitaly International, the worldwide ambassador of Italian wine, announced the appointment of Ian D'Agata as scientific director of its new educational initiative Vinitaly International Academy (VIA), which will launch at its New York event on February 3. An innovative masterclass series that combines focused tastings with academic lect...

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New York City's Church Missions House, an elaborate six-story Flemish-Renaissance landmarked building at 281 Park Avenue South, is in contract for north of $50 million, The Real Deal has learned.   Sources said that a prominent Italian family — two sources identified them as the Garzoni family — beat out New York-based players such as A...

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The story of Italian food in America is, in many ways, a story about the color red. There's the wine, the waiters' jackets, the checkered tablecloths, the cherries punctuating the ends of cannoli, and most of all, there's the sauce.   Much of the credit for this redness belongs to the south of Italy: its agricultural and gastronomic embrace...

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Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Hours: 6PM Venue: Italian Cultural Institute686 Park AvenueNew York, NY 10065 Organized by: ICI The exhibition will present Italian string instruments coming from four different cities, and made from the 17th to the 20th century. In particular, the only surviving violin made by Giovanni Pietro Caspani in 1657 will...

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