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Last October's 200th anniversary of Verdi's birth unleashed a flurry of performances of the Verdi Requiem that hasn't subsided. This most operatic of Requiems concludes the 2014 Oregon Bach Festival Sunday in Eugene.   What makes this performance especially tantalizing is its young but proven solo quartet: soprano Tamara Wilson, mezzo-sopran...

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By Sherri Buri McDonald Two seasoned chefs who left established careers in Los Angeles to be closer to family in Eugene have opened a restaurant in the Fifth Street Public Market in downtown Eugene.   The husband-and-wife team of Scott and Nicole Garrett recently opened Baker Butcher, an Italian restaurant, in the market's international foo...

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by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis   It is Saturday night at the Columbus Day Banquet. The Portland Golf Club is overflowing with smiling guests, drinks in hand. Dinner is finished, the panna cotta is on its way, the music and dancing has started. One man still mingles table to table. He greets old friends with a handshake, a good rib poke or a k...

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Spaghetti and meatballs are not Italian food. Ask Juri Sbandati. At Trattoria Sbandati on Bend's west side, you also won't find fettucine Alfredo, chicken Parmigiana or veal Marsala on the carefully considered menu.   This is not, after all, a dimly lit Italian café with red-checkered tablecloths and candles fashioned from Chianti bottl...

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Rome native owner and chef Antonio Morichini wants his Italian restaurant in Via Vai to resemble a piece of "Italy in Astoria."   The restaurant and wine bar located at 31-09 23rd Ave. has become a neighborhood favorite since it first opened in June 2014, even attracting guests from outside the city. After living abroad in Italy for several...

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by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis   Opening the door into DeNicola's Italian Restaurant is like opening the door into your grandmother's kitchen.   You are welcomed with a smile, invited to sit down, surrounded by loud conversation and laughter, and there are all those wonderful Italian aromas – baking eggplant in sauce and cheese, simmering p...

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The latest in a line of wood-fired pizza places coming to Northeast Portland has opened its doors. After months of hands-on demolition, construction and build-out, owner Clark Hale opened Pizzeria Otto last Friday, bringing Neapolitan-style pies to the Roseway neighborhood.   Pizzaiolo Justin Clarke, a Brit who lived and trained in Italy bef...

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The tradition of honoring an individual from Portland's diverse immigrant community began in 2011, with the unveiling of the Portland Immigrant Statue in Parkrose. On November 21st, folks huddled under canopies, trying to avoid wind-blown rain, at the Portland Immigrant Statue site in outer East Portland – on a traffic island along NE Sandy Boulev...

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by Samantha Bakall   After nearly a year of anticipation, Renata, a wood-fired Italian restaurant, will open in industrial Southeast Portland on June 1.   Owners Nick and Sandra Arnerich bring a sterling resume to the massive project -- the 10,000-square-foot building, 1921 Weatherly Creamery Building, that houses not only the restaur...

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by Chad Walsh When Justin and Stormee Wills opened Restaurant Beck on Depot Bay at the Oregon Coast a few years back, they decided to name it for their son, Becker, who's now six years old. Logic would follow that should the Wills ever open a sister restaurant, they'd name it for Becker's kid sister, Isla, who's now two.   That's pretty muc...

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