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by Marc Theiss   Located 50 miles north of Pittsburgh in Lawrence County, New Castle is home to one of the densely-concentrated Italian-American populations in America. According to the New Castle News, during the years of 1890 to 1921, it is estimated that western Pennsylvania served as the new home for over 100,000 Italian immigrants in se...

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by Henrik Eger   Philadelphia is in for a musical treat: HILDEGARD VON BINGEN: BAMBINA MISTICA (the mystical child), an Italian cantata, with music by Italian composer Mariano Garau and Hildegard von Bingen; a libretto by Philadelphia's Karen Lauria Saillant, director of International Opera Theater, based on original writings of Hildegard; a...

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by Dorothy Sasso   Another weekend, another amazing outdoor food festival in the city. This time, South Street's Italian Market, America's oldest continuously running open-air market, is hosting a massive, multi-block food festival. This year is the 100th anniversary of the market.   The festival starts at 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sund...

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The owners of Barbuzzo plan to open a homestyle Italian-American restaurant.Little Nonna (1234 Locust St.) will be a casual Italian eatery, inspired by the "red sauce" family-owned places of Italian immigrants, said owners Chef Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran. It will have 37 seats."For our menu, I immersed myself in the strong family traditions o...

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Everyone's Italian during the South 9th Street Italian Market Festival (http://www.italianmarketfestival.com), the city's biggest block party that runs along South 9th Street, from Fitzwater to Federal Streets. The nation's oldest outdoor continuous market will host this highly-anticipated annual event on Saturday May 17th and Sunday May 18th from...

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By Laura Szepesi   Love and fellowship abounded at Connellsville's West Side Hill on Sunday. For the 15th year in a row, the neighborhood's Italian Bash attracted more than 150 people from near and far — an afternoon of food, fun and ethnic cuisine.   There was a huge assortment of Italian food, as well as plenty of other ethnic delic...

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I love Italian food. It seems odd because the closest my family blood line comes to Italy is my great-grandfather's short stay during his deployment in World War I.   But my love of pasta, tomato sauce and Italian food of all kinds is unquestioned. And it is with that appetite that I look forward to the first weekend of August and the annu...

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The first meeting of the Bristol Italian Culture Club ended with an invitation to continue at a member's home for wine and homemade limoncello. For founder Steve Hedgpeth, it couldn't have gone better.   "I'm hoping we could share not just being Italian-American, but a sense of Italian-ness," he said to the seven fellow Bristolians who joine...

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by Larry Richert   Sunday is Mother's Day, a day when we salute our mothers and the sacrifices they have made for us. But, few people have a Mother's Day story to tell like professional wrestling great Bruno Sammartino, who was born in Italy, but for all of his adult life, has made his home in Pittsburgh. Sammartino grew up in the small tow...

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October 10 @ 10:00 am. Philadelphia, PA 19102 The Union League 140 S. Broad Street. Join us at the Heritage Center to celebrate Italian Heritage month with Ciao Philadelphia. Tours of the League House will be offered to the public on Saturday, October 10, with a focus on Italian Art at the League.   To join us: Reservations are not...

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