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Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945, the touring exhibit chronicling the journey of Italian fashion from post World War II era to present day is well on its way to its next destination, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville.    Due to take place from June 5 to September 7, 2015, the event aims to explore the development of womenswea...

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Lindsay Chappell  PULASKI, Tenn. -- Chrysler, Fiat and Alfa Romeo are not the only brands Sergio Marchionne wants to advance in North America. There's also Magneti Marelli. The Italian supplier is far from a household name in the U.S. auto industry. But the big century-old maker of lighting and powertrain parts wants to change that -- and qu...

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The 5th Annual Italian Lights Festival is the weekend of September 5th through 7th this year. Join in celebrating the Italian culture and cuisine over three days. This is a family-friendly event that includes activities like a meatball eating contest, grape stomping competition and wine tastings.   There will also be live music, free parking...

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by Sean Phipps   Chattanooga's popular Italian concept restaurant Il Primo will open a second location at Cambridge Square in Ooltewah. Restaurateur Nathan Lindley and property managers Legacy Real Estate & Development plan to open the 4,000-square-foot location in June 2017. The location will be across the road from Heaven and...

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Rumor has it that Chef Matt Gallaher will officially open his new Italian restaurant, Emilia, on Tuesday, May 3. But so far it's only a rumor as the chef has yet to make the official announcement. He did, however, explain in a text message how he chose the restaurant's name.   "My first restaurant job was at 9 years old in my mom's cate...

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Please make plans to attend the 9th Annual Memphis Bocce Tournament on Jan 11th through Jan 12th 2014. The attachments are the Entry Forms in Word and PDF format for your convenience. Please send Entry form and Check to: Memphis Bocce Club - 4217 East Holmes Road - Memphis, TN 38118   We will keep with the same 'Pool' format. Each...

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He was Italian from the Old Country, although he had lived in the U.S. for most of his life. He was a master craftsman in the truest sense of the word - and whose craft was a Fine Art in itself.   It would be fair to say that Stefano Giuliano was easily one of the most highly skilled ornamental plaster workers in the country - a distinction...

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Lately, Detroit has been several times in the news that describe the relations between Italy and the United States. The merger between Fiat and Chrysler, the default of the city, the feared risk of closure of the Italian Consulate have often brought in the foreground the city that once was the richest in America, while today lives a difficult momen...

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The exhibition, titled 'Bellissima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance 1945-1975' at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, will be dedicated to the tailor-made automobiles, design studies and motorcycles that were designed and manufactured in Italy from 1945 to 1975.   Back in 2013, guest curator Ken Gross held a spec...

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Less than two months after the end of the Rhodes College Tournées French Film Festival and some five weeks after the Memphis Jewish Community Center's Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival comes another annual movie event with an international perspective, the Italian Film Festival USA at the University of Memphis.  ...

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