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Later this Spring, Skipolini's Italian, an award-winning, Bay-area restaurant, will be joining The Summit community. Skipolini's will be bringing a 41-year, award-winning, reputation to The Summit, in the building just south of BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse. The menu at Skipolini's Italian will feature pizzas, pastas and other classic Italia...

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By Robin Leach A Wicked Whisper & Racy Rumor to start the week: Are lawyers for celebrity chef Giada de Laurentiis and Caesars Entertainment, which owns the Cromwell where her new restaurant Giada is located, flexing their muscles and legal briefs over rival Giada's Italian Cucina in Henderson?   I'm hearing solid rumors that's the cas...

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Since the Pota family took over Bambino's East Coast Pizzeria, the valley's East Coast transplants have been finding their way there, mostly by word of mouth. The Pota family, led by co-owner Ralph Pota, took over the business at 2555 S. Durango Drive in October.   Ralph was born in Naples, Italy, and moved to the United States as a chi...

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Vintage '50s footage ofDick Clark's "American Bandstand" shows him trying to maintain a modicum of quiet as he's about to announce the upcoming in-studio performance of a guest star. He asks for a moment of silence before the all-hell-breaks-loose moment when he calmly says, "Frankie Avalon" into his microphone. The screaming is deafening until you...

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Are you Italian or just like to eat like one? If so, you will want to head out to the 34th annual San Gennaro Feast this week. The Las Vegas family fun festival celebrating the spirit of San Gennaro features more than 70 restaurant food booths, 80 amusements rides including the new 100-foot Vertigo, petting zoo and pony rides, midway games, arts...

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By Andrea Doyle   New York Italian restaurant Carmine's is now open on the Las Vegas Strip. Located inside The Forum Shops at Caesars, the colossal 750-seat eatery serves up family-style portions of Southern Italian cuisine.   Las Vegas marks the restaurant's sixth location with others in Manhattan, Atlantic City, Washington D.C., and...

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by Edward Bevilacqua   This week, at our monthly members dinner, which was attended by over 100 of our members (about 20%) we honored six of the students who were awarded scholarships. As the Club's influence grows within the Las Vegas Community, it is important that the Club helps the community.   As such, this is first time in the C...

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Las Vegas is going through an Italian Renaissance —at least when it comes to pizza. The owner of downtown's Pizza Rock has opened a second store by the same name in Green Valley Ranch Resort, and is opening an Italian restaurant called Little Tony's in Palace Station. "We wanted to prove to Vegas that if we can do it in downtown, we can do it...

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By Elaine and Scott Harris   Along with Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick, Mario Carbone is a co-owner of Major Food Group. Famed New York restaurant Carbone is an Italian-American restaurant created by Major Food Group's Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick, and a second location has opened in the Aria Resort and Casino in...

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by Ashley Oñoz-Wright Ciao Bella (insert exaggerated hand gesture here). Carnival is annually marked by an over-the-top celebration with elaborate costumes and masquerades, glittering decorations and a whole lot of inebriated revelry through the streets. Wait a minute – that sounds a lot like Vegas.   And because we're always looking for a...

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