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It has been an offseason of change for the Portland Timbers, including adding new head coach Giovanni Savarese, who made his local debut Monday at Providence Park. In addition to moving from the Big Apple to the Rose City, Savarese is stepping up to the big leagues of American soccer. The upcoming season will be his first time as an MLS head coach...

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Robert "Bob" Frasca, the co-founder of Portland-based ZGF Architects and whose body of work helped define the city's skyline, died Jan. 3 of complications from leukemia, the firm said Monday. He was 84. The Oregon Convention Center, KOIN Tower and Portland World Trade Center are among his most recognizable works. Many of his other projects are part...

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Imagine 600,000 Italians in America, good honest hardworking people. Imagine them all of a sudden branded as enemy aliens, discriminated, questioned, moved to internment camps. Imagine that they are prohibited to work, to live in their own homes, to travel more than 5 miles. Imagine them forced to prove their innocence, for a charge they don't even...

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Nestled between running rivers and snow-capped mountains, Portland is home to some of the best microbreweries, coffeehouses and legendary restaurants on the West Coast. However, there's one restaurant in particular that stands out — and according to The Daily Meal, it's Nostrana, an authentic Italian restaurant located in the heart of Oregon's larg...

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The Portland Timbers have named Giovanni Savarese as the club’s head coach entering the 2018 MLS season. Savarese, the third head coach in the club’s MLS history, brings over 25 years of professional experience as a player and coach to the Timbers organization, most recently serving as the head coach and sporting director of the New York Cosmos whe...

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Festa della Befana is on Sunday, January 7, 2018. The Festa begins at 2:30pm and is open to children ages 3 to 10 years old. This treasured annual event is presented by the Amici d’Italia, Sons of Italy Vancouver, and the Tuscan Association of Oregon The Festa will be in Carvlin Hall at St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, SE 16th and Division Street i...

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Join Scuola Italiana di Portland and Cerulean Wine Bar (1439 NW Marshall Street, Portland, OR) for a FREE discussion on Italian Art by Jesse Locker, Ph.D. entitled Artemisia Gentileschi: Art and Gender in Baroque Italy on January 6, 2018 at 2:00pm. Enjoy delicious local wine while learning about Italian culture from an expert in the field of Italia...

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In a recent interview on “UO Today,” James Harper, an associate professor in the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture and a specialist in 16th- and 17th-century Italian art, talked about a major exhibit of The Barberini Tapestries now on view at the UO. Harper curated "The Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome," an e...

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Like the new Comiskey Park and Michael Jackson's Bad, Renata was a throwback before it even opened its doors. When this contemporary Italian spot set up shop in the spring of 2015, the city was moving away from large, full-service restaurants and toward intimate pop-ups and cheffy pop-ins. Renata is perhaps the biggest stand-alone dining buil...

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Scuola Italiana di Portland offers two free ongoing programs every term for Italian Language lovers of all ages to improve their Italian language skills – Mommy and Me Playgroup and the Monthly Italian Language Bookclub. Mommy and Me PlaygroupIo e la Mamma is a free playgroup for ages one to four held on most Friday mornings from 10:00 to 12:00 am...

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