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HE Claudio Bisogniero, Ambassador of Italy in Washington, will travel to Kansas City (MO) on November 17th and 18th for the inauguration of the photographic exhibition "Art and War" at the National WWI Museum on loan from the Italian Museo del Risorgimento of Rome.   The Ambassador will also meet with the local authorities and representative...

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Rita's Italian Ice, the world's largest Italian Ice concept with more than 600 stores, is continuing its expansion in the Midwest and seeking franchisees to join its team for the Kansas and Missouri territory. Rita's, which began more than 30 years ago in Philadelphia, has been aggressively expanding across the United States with locations from coa...

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After Joyce DiDonato's performance of Maurice Ravel's deliciously sensual "Sheherazade" on the opening night of the Kansas City Symphony's new season, the audience was a big puddle of melted butter.   But DiDonato was worried it wasn't flashy enough, and afterward she told the audience she thought it lacked the "ta-da" factor for opening nig...

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MSSU is celebrating the "Italy Semester" and MSSU's long-running radio show "Southern Serenade" is featuring Italian–American tenor Mario Lanza from a new Sony 2-disc CD release on the evening of a Mario Lanza movie marathon on TV's Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel.   Born in Philadelphia in 1921, Alfredo Arnold Cocozza became Mario Lanza...

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A little building on Prospect Avenue has been home to several restaurants, some that have moved on to higher profile spots.   Now a new operation has moved in: Mo's Italian Spot — "Mo" for Monica Abato Malik who is using recipes from her Italian grandparents. Malik and her husband, Raheem Malik, opened the restaurant earlier this month at 59...

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by Debbie Monolo   Finally, spring is in the air and from our vantage point across the street from St. Ambrose Church, we can also confirm that love is in the air.   A symbol of tradition and an anchor for local Italian Americans, this beautiful church is a popular place to tie the knot for St. Louisans of Italian descent. The an...

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by Jill Sederstrom   It has survived three fires, two world wars, the Depression and a changing neighborhood. But if there's one thing Holy Rosary Catholic Church has proved over the nearly 125 years that it's been a fixture in Kansas City, it's that it endures.   And the Catholic church hasn't just endured, it continues to thriv...

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The Italian American Heritage Corporation is one of the oldest Italian American organization in the United States. It was organized on November 11, 1866 and was incorporated on December 6, 1866 it is composed of many St. Louis Italian-American Organizations, who joined together a number of years ago to ensure that there will always be a Columbus Da...

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Esce in questi giorni il nuovo numero di "It@lico", organo di informazione dell'associazione "Italiano per piacere", coordinata da Franco Giannotti. Il numero, spiega Giannotti, inizia con la relazione dell'ultima riunione dedicata a Baldo Gandolfo. Segue la storia di Salemi, a cura di Marcello Delli Zotti, mentre Anna Di Palma Amelung continua, i...

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The northwest corner of Grand and Washington in Grand Center hasn't been kind to restaurants: Duke's Restaurant, Wm. Shakespeare's Gastropub, and the recently shuttered Dooley's Beef N Brew House (above) have all occupied the space in recent years.   If there's an event at Grand Center, nearby restaurants see action (mainly pre-show), but wh...

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