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By Michael Matza Born in Italy in 1926, Elvira Raieta worked on a farm until 1971, then set sail for opportunity in America. She and her husband used their savings to buy a house in a thriving Italian-immigrant neighborhood in Norristown.   Today, she is the sole Italian on her mostly African American street. The non-Hispanic white populat...

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The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia might close down as a consequence of budget cuts planned by the Italian Government. Closing the Consulate would be a significant loss for both the local Italian community and the Country itself.   Traditionally a historic site of Italian immigration and home to a large Italian-American community...

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Last Thursday, Mar. 12, Galdo's Entertainment & Catering Complex at 20th & Moyamensing Avenue was bustling with dignitaries, family, friends and colleagues of 2nd Dist. Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, State Rep. Maria Donatucci and businessman Jay Agnes.   The South Philadelphia Business Association honored each of them as Person of the...

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St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish has something that no other church in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has: a weekly Sunday Mass conducted in Italian. The 8 a.m. Mass helps some congregants connect with their Italian heritage, said the Rev. Nicholas F. Martorano, pastor of St. Nicholas since 1984.   "They like the tradition. They want t...

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È ufficiale: dal 19 al 28 settembre papa Francesco visiterà Cuba e gli Stati Uniti, con tappa anche all'Onu, per il decimo viaggio del pontificato, nel quale pronuncerà 24 tra discorsi, omelie, saluti.   A Cuba visiterà l'Avana e Santiago, negli Usa New York, Washington, interverrà davanti al Congresso e all'assemblea generale dell'Onu, Fila...

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Alla scoperta dell'America e alla sua conquista, più come una family Groove aquilana che come emigranti in fuga. Partire è un po' morire, «chi è felice non si muove» (Thomas Mann), è vero, ma Michele Morelli e Stefano Biasini del Gran caffè dell'Aquila non scappano, piuttosto inseguono un sogno americano, un american dream, in cerca di un'altra pos...

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by Kathleen E. Carey   The end of Verdi's Otello, as many know, is rather bleak. Desdemona and Otello are dead, havoc has been unleashed and the villain Jago escapes. Disconcerting to some, it intrigued Karen Saillant, artistic director and stage director of the International Opera Theater, to create a sequel based on the miscreant. &n...

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by Lynn Olanoff   Musikfest. Celtic Classic. Festa Italiana? Yes, a new Italian festival called Festa Italiana Bethlehem is joining Bethlehem's hearty festival lineup this June, set for June 5 and 6 on Main Street.   The event will feature both a wine and pasta trail along with authentic Italian vendors, said Lynn Collins Cunning...

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By Blake Oetting   As the new academic year begins, there will be countless opportunities to overstress, over think, and spend too much time with your head buried in work. Luckily enough, Swarthmore Libraries' first art installation of the year fits well into the beginning of the fall semester. Angela Lorenz, an artist based out of both Ital...

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Looking for Italian traces all over the 50 States, this time we get back to Pennsylvania, the Keystone State: more precisely to Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania. One of the main concerns that several Italian American friends have told us is that young Italian Americans could feel their bound with their heritage in a different, slighter way. Well,...

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