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Maria Manca was born in Ozieri (Sassari) in 1982 and graduated from the "Università per Stranieri di Perugia" in 2008 with a degree in International Relations. In 2010 she entered the Diplomatic career of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her first assignment was to the office of the Directorate General for Development and Cooperation of the...

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An Italian Festival will be Friday and Saturday, April 28-29, at the Calvary Arts Center, 447 S. Main St., New Lexington. Friday events will be from 5 to 10 p.m. and include bounce house and slide for youth, historical displays of local Italian families and food vendors. An Italian cook-off will be from 5 to 7 p.m. with attendees able to vote on th...

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The Perry County Cultural Arts Center is holding an Italian Festival on Friday April 28, 2017 from 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. and Saturday April 29, 2017 from 11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. at the Calvary Arts Center, 447 S. Main Street, New Lexington, Ohio 43764 Friday, April 28. 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Italian cooking competition and public tasting. 7:00 p.m....

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Six-hundred gallons of sauce, 23,000 meatballs, 200,000 ravioli, a little love, some laughter, and over one hundred years of tradition were the recipe for one of the areas Palm Sunday dinning experiences. About 2,000 served up their plates at the Sacred Heart Church Original Italian Dinner. The meal has been a spring ritual since 1911. For Mike Car...

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Little Italy, alas, no longer has a resident movie house (the New Mayfield repertory was the nearest thing), but the Strosacker Auditorium of Case Western-Reserve University has graciously filled in as the local villa for the touring Italian Film Festival USA. It’s a selection of the best of contemporary Italian movies, sometimes even accompanied b...

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John Vourlis spent 20 years working in Hollywood chasing the dream of making it big in the film business.  The Wickliffe native did pretty well for himself. He began working at a company called LightingStrikes, a lighting company for films. His first job there was as a receptionist. When he left to return home seven years ago, Vourlis was the compa...

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“Where are your donuts?” That is the question Michelle Kelly of Bakery 151, 130 N. 1st Street, Miamisburg, gets on a-daily-basis. Bakery 151 is a traditional New York/New Jersey style bakery. Exit 151 is an area in Northern New Jersey located a few miles outside of New York City. The Kelly’s are from New Jersey. Michelle is Italian descent. Her gra...

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The March 13 meeting of the Italian American Cultural Club held at St. Florian Hall began with Louise Donofe offering the blessing and reading a story of the tradition of the San Giuseppe Altar. Mariella Pittera, Lucia Scaffidi, Carm Gentile, Rita Carapellotti and Jane Antonucci made the traditional breads for the altar of San Giuseppe. Rick Pastr...

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The popular, free concert "Opera in the Italian Garden" will be presented on the lawn of the beautiful Renaissance Italian Cultural Garden Sunday, July 30 at 6:00-7:30 p.m. The concert, offered free to the public by the Italian Cultural Garden Foundation, features famous music from well known operas with the Cleveland Opera and the Cleveland Ballet...

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There are places in Mansfield that I’ve often heard talked about but will never see, places from the past that live on only in stories and conversation. One of those places is - or was - Saprano’s Bar, a downtown beer and pizza joint that closed its doors 35 years ago. The bar was sold off and longtime proprietor Joe Saprano died in 1987. With the...

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