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Calling all teachers of Italian language and culture! "Teaching Italian Symposium/Workshop: Meeting VIII" is right around the proverbial corner. This year's theme is "Imparando giocando"--Play and Games in the FL Classroom. To register and select your workshops--first come, first served--please go to: http://tiny.cc/TI8-giocare. Or feel free to con...

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By Rosie Saferstein  The aptly named Di Sopra, which means upstairs in Italian is located on the second floor, above a store. We felt at home at this newly opened restaurant not only because of the friendly service but the restaurant is uniquely located in what was once an apartment. Separate rooms, one with French doors, crisp white tableclo...

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By Riccardo Chioni Con una tradizione alle spalle che si tramanda da 88 anni, il Club della Società Madonna dei Martiri di Hoboken, in collaborazione con la Società Hoboken Italian Festival, ha allestito l'annuale dinner dance presso il ristorante Macaluso di Hawthorne in New Jersey a cui hanno preso parte circa 400 persone. Durante la serata è s...

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Frank Poma grew up in his family's kitchen — "I was peeling garlic when I was 5 years old," he says — and even worked for a while in a banquet center. But it was his cousin in Sicily — Salvatore Monteleone — who became a chef with his own restaurant.   Then Monteleone came to the U.S. and the two began talking about opening a place together...

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by Sebastian D'Elia   The Plainfields' Chapter of UNICO celebrated a successful concert at Sacred Heart Church with the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea featuring Broadway hits, pop standards and Italian classical compositions and favorites to a delighted audience of more than 400 on a beautiful Spring day.   The orchestra was led by...

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By Rebecca Panico   The brothers that brought you Renato's Pizza Masters on Central Avenue in the Heights are now using their expertise to open an Italian-style deli on the same block. Bocelli's Italian Deli opened late last month and a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 274 Central Ave. between Sherman Place and Manhattan Avenue followed. &nb...

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"Cucina povera" and "alta cucina" may be apples and oranges (or rather mele e arance), but we Americans adore them just the same—indeed more than any other foreign cuisine, according to recent reports.   These 20 best Italian restaurants in America—which stretch from the best restaurants in Miami in the south right up to San Francisco's best...

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Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will return to the United States for a select run of concerts in 2013 as he drums up support for his recently released "Passione." "Passione" is a collection of Mediterranean love songs featuring duets with global pop stars Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado and the late Edith Piaf. The legendary singer is the biggest sell...

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The Capitol Heights Lyric Opera Ensemble of New York City will present a program of Italian love songs at the Clarence Dillon Public Library on Sunday, Oct. 6. The program will begin at 2 pm. Great opera arias of Verdi and Puccini as well as Neapolitan ballads will be performed by three members of the Ensemble.   The program will take place...

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George Anastasia, who launched his career at this newspaper in 1969 when it was the Woodbury Daily Times and became an award-winning journalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of eight books about organized crime, has been selected as 2014 Italian-American Citizen of the Year by the Gloucester County Italian Heritage Commission.   Th...

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