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Is it us, or does Palermo, N.D., look A LOT like Old Town Kern? Seriously. Watch the Fiat "Gran Finale" television commercial (which can be viewed online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F82hH65LHic).   About two-thirds the way through the commercial there's an image of what appears to be the old Southern Pacific Station on Sumner...

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by Shari Puterman   From a mobster on HBO to a "sausage king" on ABC Family, Steve Schirripa has seen it all. But at the core of it, the "Sopranos" star has deep Jersey Italian roots. Schirripa's sister has been a longtime school bus driver in Hazlet, where she continues to reside today.   His mother lived in a Shrewsbury nu...

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Tra i diversi aspetti che caratterizzano l'esperienza italoamericana, come ci hanno detto alcuni nostri precedenti ospiti, c'è (sin dall'inizio) il problema delle discriminazioni e degli stereotipi. E' un problema che divide fortemente la comunità: perché c'è chi lo combatte con grande forza, e chi ritiene che al contrario bisognerebbe evitare di p...

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by Bill Ervolino   5 p.m. Saturday, NJTV; 6:30 p.m. Saturday, WNET/Channel 13 Does the world really need another television show about Italian food?   Chef and lifelong New Jersey resident Vic Rallo believes it does. Rallo, who grew up in Franklin Lakes — his parents owned the celebrated Molly's Fish Market (now Portobello) in Oaklan...

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by Elaine Glusac   For the past 12 years, Kathy McCabe has written and published Dream of Italy, a subscription newsletter devoted to travel in Italy. Her infatuation with the country began with her first trip there in 1995 to visit Castelvetere sul Calore, home of her maternal ancestors near Naples.   The town was full of families be...

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Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation. Who says there's nothing good on TV?Italians have know it for a while, ever since Detective Montalbano hit their airwaves.We are in luck: MHz Networks is releasing four more episodes of the Italian mystery series on DVD.Benissimo! Montalbano solves crimes in the small fictional Southern Italy city of...

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ABC News President Ben Sherwood sent the following note to the news division this morning announcing that Mara Schiavocampo is joining ABC News as a New York-based correspondent. I'm thrilled to announce that Mara Schiavocampo is joining ABC News as a New York-based correspondent reporting for all platforms.   Read more   Source:&nbs...

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MSNBC political commentator and "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd today acceded to a request from the Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition and UNICO National and made a public apology for comments he made on October 21st on the air during the "Morning Joe" show on MSNBC which stereotyped Italian Americans.   During the October 21st Broadcast...

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by April Neale   There's nothing like a deep masculine crooner voice in the vein of Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra. Lucky for us a 20-year-old from Long Island named Sal Valentinetti packed his whole famiglia and headed to the America's Got Talent stages and, not for nothin', he earned a Golden Buzzer!   Last week was all about Gra...

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di Agnese Gazzera   Da quando ha vinto la quarta edizione di MasterChef negli Stati Uniti, non si è più fermato. Luca Manfé, friulano d'origine e trapiantato da anni a New York, nel 2013 è stato incoronato nello show culinario più famoso d'America e da allora ha pubblicato un libro di ricette, inventato un servizio di showcooking a domicilio...

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