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Robust Italian flavors emanate from the kitchen of Gamberetti's Italian Restaurant (325 High St. S.E., Salem; 503-339-7446) on the ground level of the Pringle Park Plaza. Big winners include molte carne tortellini (Bolognese sauce, marinara, Italian sausage and meatball on cheese tortellini), fra diavolo ravioli (shrimp, lobster and marinara over s...

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Soprano Jennifer Forni, who sings the role of Micaela in Portland Opera's upcoming "Carmen," has a bundle of credits that show the makings of a star ascending. During a 2012-2014 stint with the San Jose Opera, she received glowing reviews for her performance of Cio-Cio-San in "Madama Butterfly."   In 2013 she joined the Metropolitan Opera, d...

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Northwest seafood meets the Mediterranean at Little Italy in Coos Bay. Generous pasta shells overflow with juicy crab meat, spinach, ricotta cheese and creamy tomato sauce; and are smothered in melting mozzarella. Fresh salmon is perfectly grilled and served with creamy Dijon mustard and capers, alongside a beautiful salad. Mouth-watering cioppino...

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When they announced their decision to move their family lock, stock and pasta machine from Florence, Italy, to Portland, Oregon, to open a food cart, American friends of Florence native Paolo Calamai and his Michigan-born wife, Elizabeth Petrosian, were aghast.   "But you're living in Florence!" the friends wailed, thinking their life in Ita...

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Chiurazzi Internazionale S.r.l., an Italian corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Experience Art and Design, Inc., announces that the Company has engaged Geoffrey M. Curley + Associates to co-develop a traveling exhibition for art, natural history, and science museums throughout North America. The Company expects the Exhibition to be availab...

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Growing up in Yonkers, New York, and later Greenwich, Connecticut, Rick Gencarelli enjoyed large homemade meals with his Italian family every Sunday. Back then, Gencarelli's mother, a first-generation American who learned the culinary trade from her Naples, Italy–born mother, prepared classic Italian dishes like Sunday Pork Ragu and Spaghetti Aglio...

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Thanks to the growing success of the super We Love Italian "Let Us Adopt Italian Language Students" campaign, grants are now available through COMITES of San Francisco, the "Committee of Italians Abroad" in our area.   The purpose of the grants is to promote and support teaching and learning of Italian language and culture in Northern Califo...

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By Ben Waterhouse   Just when it seemed the gelato craze of the early 2000s had finally petered out, the dense, silky Italian ice cream is back, all thanks to a lanky Italian with a Frank Zappa mustache. Sandro Paolini, a native of Pisa, opened Pinolo Gelato on Southeast Division Street, a neighborhood already awash in ice cream, in June....

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By Samantha Bakall   Nye Beach now has its neighborhood Italian restaurant. In early June, Restaurant Beck chef Justin Wills opened Sorella, a casual, family-style Italian spot, in Newport's Nye Beach, about 20 minutes down U.S. 101 from Depoe Bay, where Wills and wife Stormee Wills continue to operate brother Restaurant Beck.  ...

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by Ken Kane   Six Italian-Americans sit around the table, a barbecue just completed. Now it's time to chat and drink a little. Seated are an engineer, a Shakespearean scholar, an inventor, an online historian, an expert on reading and memory, a cruise ship crooner- and his five friends.   Jimmie Moglia talks, in his usual lilting, sel...

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