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Dozens of people gathered Saturday afternoon into the evening to kick off day two of St. Ann's Italian Festival, which has been apart of the Mile Square City now for 106 years.   While city police blocked off the area near 7th and Jefferson streets at St. Ann's Square, the smell of bratwursts filled the air and children rode carnivals and pl...

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If you're going to call your new Italian restaurant "That's Amore" — meaning "that's love" in English — you'd better be pretty confident that your food, as well as the entire dining experience, can live up to the expectation of such a lofty name. That's Amore? It'd better be. Add that expectation to the fact that That's Amore is located in what wa...

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Members of the Italian American One Voice Coalition (www.iaovc.org) were pleased this past weekend to join the Mercer County Italian American Festival Association, New Jersey State Senator President Stephen Sweeney, and other dignitaries, in rededicating the Christopher Columbus statue at the Italian American Heritage Center in Hamilton Township....

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While Lauren Turano of Cedar Grove may or may not continue playing tennis and golf when she arrives at Villanova University next month, one thing is for sure, she will long be remembered as one of the best athletes in the recent history of Mount Saint Dominic Academy.   In just her junior and senior seasons, Turano helped the golf team win f...

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L' Hoboken Italian Festival, è un grande evento italo-americano come Festival nel New Jersey festeggia oggi 86 anni, sono le tradizioni tramandate di una festa patronale nata in Italia, a Molfetta, che è ha oltre 600 anni. The festival occurs yearly, the weekend after Labor Day, for 4 days at beautiful Sinatra Park, on the historic waterfront of H...

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The Clark Chapter of UNICO marched in the Annual Clark Memorial Day Parade on Monday. Members marched down Westfield Ave to ALJ High School for the Ceremony.   Clark Unico is a chapter of Unico National, the largest Italian American service organization in the United States. The Clark Unico is active in the community, provides scholarships t...

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Villa Enterprises announced today it has opened 34 Villa Italian Kitchen quick-serve restaurants in regional malls throughout the U.S.   The units were acquired in April from Chicago-based General Growth Properties, Inc. and have been transformed into the popular, 50 year old Villa Italian Kitchen brand.   Read more   Source:&n...

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The Italian American Social Club of Waldwick held its 8th annual summer Bocce/Breakfast event. It included several teams playing on Waldwick's Borough Park double bocce courts.   Bocce is a popular Italian bowling game derived from ancient Roman times now enjoyed by teams of all ages, male or female. Attendees also enjoyed a homemade breakfa...

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by Teresa Politano   Given the swarms of Italian restaurants in this state, and the fierce loyalty they inspire, it might be fair to classify a significant portion of the job of a Jersey restaurant critic as waxing poetic over one meatball or another. Which is no small writing challenge, waxing poetic over a meatball. Of course, one mig...

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by Hayley Levitt   The complete cast and creative team has been announced for the world-premiere musical adaptation of A Bronx Tale at Paper Mill Playhouse. Performances are set to run from February 4-March 6, 2016, with an official February 14 opening.   Based on Chazz Palminteri's acclaimed one-man show and subsequent 1993 film, A B...

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