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Italy has won the Academy Award for Best International Film 14 times. That’s more than any other country, and it’s part of the reason why Joyce Mariani started the Cleveland Italian Film Festival. Now in its 18th year, the festival returns next month with screenings on three consecutive Thursdays at the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights and At...

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  Una nuova casa per la statua di Colombo a Columbus in Ohio? A New Haven in Connecticut si tenta il pizza party più grande del mondo La città di Kenosha in Wisconsin celebra con un murale il gemellaggio con Cosenza Apple TV+ annuncia la première della docuserie “Mr. Scorsese” Due statue simbolo a Philadelphia in Pennsylvania: Rocky all’aeroporto,...

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A group of women have met up in Kettering over the last 30 years to play Bocce Ball. “You learn something from everybody. There’s always laughs, always good stories, and it’s just a good time,” says Caitlin Davis, Chair of the Women’s Bocce League. The game is relatively simple. “You throw a ball called the pull and it is a little yellow ball. And...

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Reimagining Columbus has unveiled its "generational vision" for a park that includes the Christopher Columbus statue but is not centered on it. Their plan is an approximately 5-acre park designed in a spiral around a circular community gathering space where festivals and concerts could be held. The hope is the park would include access to the river...

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If you’re in the mood for Italian, it’s another good week around Youngstown, OH. The Brier Hill Festival is set up at Calvin and Victoria Streets in Youngstown. It’s the 33rd festival in what was called Little Italy. The neighborhood was where many of Youngstown’s first Italian settlers lived.  There’s Morra on Friday, a hot pepper contest on Satur...

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A fundraising dinner for Cleveland’s historic Italian Cultural Garden is Thursday, Sept. 4, at Dante Restaurant in Tremont. Established in 1930, the garden is part of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Money raised will be used for renovations to preserve and enhance its cultural significance.  Recent restoration work, t...

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The Italian American Cultural Club held its 2025 Una Serata Italiana event Aug. 1 at Froehlich’s Classic Corner in Steubenville, OH. Those in attendance had the opportunity to sample various foods, drinks and sweets from three regions of Italy, where the largest number of area families came from, including Abruzzo, Calabria and Sicily. Young people...

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He’s only 39 years old, and his grandfather, Lou Metter, founded the downtown Warren (OH) festival in 1985 before he was born, but he believes his grandfather would be proud to know that the event is celebrating its 40th edition today through Sunday. “I think he’d be happy that it’s still going strong,” Hovance said. “We’re still trying to keep up...

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Thousands will fill the streets of Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood for the 126th celebration of the Feast of the Assumption. Known to locals simply as “The Feast,” the four-day event takes place Thursday Aug. 14, to Sunday, Aug. 17, along Mayfield and Murray Hill roads in the historic neighborhood.  For Catholics, August 15 marks the Assumpti...

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Veroni, the leading Italian charcuterie brand in the US, renews its winning partnership with the tennis world. From August 5 to August 18, and for the fourth consecutive year, the brand returns as the Official Italian Charcuterie Sponsor of the Cincinnati Open—one of the most anticipated tournaments on the global tennis calendar—where it will unvei...

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