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Friday, January 23, 2015 (6 PM). Location: Villa Penna Banquet and Restaurant, 43985 Hayes, Sterling Hgts, MI 48313 The 3rd Annual Bocce with the Brothers fundraising event will feature a buffet dinner, cash bar, silent auction, live entertainment, plus unlimited bocce ball. Tickets are $50 and only available in advance by calling: Kristen a...

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Are you looking for a fun place to take the family, meet up with friends or just stop by and watch a game... or multiple games at the same time? Someplace that offers authentic Italian cuisine as well as a number of other excellent entrees?   Meet Me At Monelli's is not just our tag line, it's what we're here for. In 2007, we opened Monelli'...

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By Scott Brandenburg   Fourth-year Oakridge volleyball coach Kim Hanson was looking forward to the 2015 season knowing it could be one of the best teams at Oakridge in quite some time. Then Hanson saw Stefania Garofolo warming up on the first day of tryouts, and she grew even more excited.   Garofolo wasn't a player Hanson was or...

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Il dato è impressionante ma la molteplicità degli eventi offre un panorama assai variegato della cultura italiana nel mondo sotto i più diversi aspetti in occasione dell'"Anno" negli Stati Uniti. E naturalmente non poteva mancare anche nel Michigan un omaggio al sommo Dante ed alla sua Divina Commedia. Un'opera vista attraverso un prisma che la res...

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Make a Joyful Noise: Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral, on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Feb. 6–May 17, 2015, offers a rare opportunity to see three exquisite marble carvings and other Italian Renaissance masterpieces by sculptor Luca della Robbia.   The reliefs are from the Cantoria (singing gallery) of Florence...

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by Mitch Hotts   An "American Idol" and the daughter of an entertainment legend are the featured performers marking the return of Festa Italiana to Freedom Hill County Park in Sterling Heights on the weekend of July 19-21.   It's a big homecoming for the popular ethnic festival, which traditionally had been held at Freedom Hill, but w...

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By Leanne Smith There's a corner in downtown Albion that beckons to people with a sense of good times and belonging. The brick building there is a bit old-fashioned, but those who walk through its doors and catch a whiff of the pizza, steaks or roasting peanuts and cashews inside wouldn't want Cascarelli's to change a bit.   "This plac...

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by Brian Calloway   With an assist from one of his all-time great players, Tom Izzo was formally named to another Hall of Fame on Tuesday. The Michigan State coach was one of the headliners of an eight-member Michigan Sports Hall of Fame class unveiled by former MSU point guard Mateen Cleaves at the Izzo Family Media Center at Spartan S...

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by Kristen Peterson   It's 1970, and Neil Scartozzi is cutting hair in a Detroit bookie joint that doubles as a barbershop, feeling disillusioned about the mob life he's facing and wondering how to get out. He's not made. Hasn't killed anyone, only gone to collect money. And the "life," he says, isn't for him.   So one day he pic...

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Visit Detroit's Italian sites on this bus tour from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The tour leaves from Eastpointe at 16600 Stephens Road (one block from Gratiot). The tour will include a luxurious coach bus, significant Italian homes in Grosse Pointe, the Italian Art Collection at the DIA, lunch at Mario's and more.   Visit Lake Shore and Jefferson th...

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