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What do you do if your friend’s restaurant is destroyed in an earthquake? This question faced restaurateur, Riccardo Longo when the original Gran Caffe L’Aquila, owned by his friend Chef Stephano Biasini, was damaged in the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. “So at that time we talked about it, and he realized that it would take probably 20 years to rebuild...

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Thursday, February 23th. Doors open at 5:30 pm Eastern Time – Film starts at 6pm. African-American Museum in Philadelphia 701 Arch St., Philadelphia 19106. Admission to the museum and exhibition: $5. Film screening FREE of charge. Light refreshment will be served. Click here to watch the Trailer. PI-Philly is happy to present, together with the Afr...

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Penna’s Italian Market (545 North Bethlehem Pike, Spring House) was named one of the “25 Essential Hoagie Shops” in the Philadelphia region in the February 2023 issue of Philadelphia Magazine. It was the only hoagie shop in Montgomery County to make the list. The article is behind a paywall, so you will have to spend a few bucks to learn about all...

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Personalized “Remembering A Loved One” tiles make great gifts. You can give a gift that will last years in the name of your spouse, family member, or yourself, or have your company sponsor a tile and show your support for the preservation of Italian and immigrant culture in Philadelphia. Sponsor a tile to honor your culture and have the engraved na...

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From Rocky Balboa to Botticelli, the City of Brotherly Love is one of America’s proudest Italian American locales, and this week’s guest is just the person to tell us how it came to be. Andrea Canepari is an Italian diplomat currently serving at the Directorate General for Country Promotion of the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Rome. He wa...

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As a child, I was intrigued by Amedeo Modigliani’s art. Looking back, I’m not surprised. After all, Modigliani was a modern painter who depicted stylized women, men, and children, a people person who executed few landscapes or still lifes. To make his portraits of mostly seated figures, he focused on heads and torsos as if he were an Italian Renais...

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I was born in Palermo, Sicilia, on July 12, 1966; we lived in the little town of Gangi. My dad, mom, her mother Giose and her father Giacomo and I traveled 11 days by boat to the United States of America. We arrived just in time to celebrate my second birthday at the port of New York on July 12, 1968. Our original stay was brief, and we returned to...

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What a difference two years can make. Just ask Nick Sirianni. On Jan. 29 2021, he had his first press conference as the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Despite it being his first head coaching job in the NFL, expectations were high as Philadelphia was a team struggling just a few years after winning the Super Bowl. When he was introduced to the m...

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A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld a lower court decision to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Mayor Jim Kenney discriminated against Italian Americans by renaming the city’s Columbus Day holiday to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. A year ago, U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II ruled that the plaintiffs, including City Councilmember Mark Squ...

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The earliest contact between the Philadelphia region and Italy occurred during the 17th century. Philadelphia became a magnet for northern Italian immigrants to British North America, who could profit by connecting the city to ports such as Genoa.  Many of these skilled Northern immigrants were musicians, artists, scientists, intellectuals, artisan...

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