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We live in the golden age of Brussels sprouts. Momentum has been building for years—remember the startling majesty you experienced the first time you had a plateful of them sauteed in rendered bacon fat?—and we finally seem to have reached the apex of the curve.   In recent months, I've had amazing versions everywhere from Pub & Kitchen...

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October 8 | 2:30 pm - 8:00 pmEvent Hosts: Drexel University | Consulate General of Italy | Pi-Philly Italian Professionals in Philadelphia   Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph s...

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April 1, 2015, Wednesday 2:00 PMPhiladelphia Museum of Art - Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 26th StPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19130 Lino Tagliapietra in conversation with Elisabeth Agro, The Nancy M. McNeil Associate Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts In the late 1970s, noted Italian glass artist Lino...

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By Alicia Vitarelli   South Philadelphia will be beaming with Italian pride on Sunday for the city's annual Columbus Day Parade. In City Council chambers Friday an official proclamation declared this entire week as Christopher Columbus, Italian-American Heritage Week, and to celebrate this year's very special parade grand marshal, Frank...

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Did you know that a triumphal arch (copy of the Roman triumphal arch of Constantine) was built on Market Street to celebrate the victory in the Revolutionary War?   Learn why the writing on that arch truly designed Philadelphia as the Rome of America, when you take this tour, organized by Philadelphia Italian Tours.  

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Pope Francis on Monday officially announced that he will visit the U.S. in September 2015, including a visit to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.   "I wish to confirm, if God wills it, that in September of 2015 I will go to Philadelphia for the Eighth World Meeting of Families," he announced at Vatican City's Synod Hall Nov. 17...

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  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Karen Lauria Saillant      Translation by:   "Tutti gli uomini sono per natura egualmente liberi e indipendenti." With light streaming through the majestic Palladio window of Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson turned these words of his Italian friend, Philip Mazzei, into the heart of The Declarati...

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Philadelphia is not only a fundamental historical place for the history of the United States, but also one of the most important American cities for the Italian community in America. Actually, the whole Pennsylvania has been the point of arrival for hundreds of thousands of Italians.   Now, on june 1, on the occasion of the celebrations for Italy...

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Italian Through Music: A Pedagogical Seminar20 September 2014, 12-4pm - Cherpack Seminar Room - 543 Williams Hall255 S. 36th Street - Philadelphia 19104   Do you teach Italian? Do you love music? Join us at the University of Pennsylvania September 20, 12-4pm, to discover how you can use music in your Italian classroom.  

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The Italian Market Festival is Saturday and Sunday, May 17th and 18th. But this year, the huge block party offers something new. "For this first time ever, St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi Church will be open to historic tours," says Michelle Gambino, business manager of the South Ninth Street Shopping District.   Read more   Source: ...

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