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"Caravaggio Connoisseurship: Saint Francis in Meditation and the Capitoline Fortune Teller" comes to the Muscarelle Museum of Art on Feb. 8 and will remain on view through April 6.   Two nearly identical versions of Caravaggio's Saint Francis in Meditation have left experts divided. Despite years of debate, experts are in disagreement as to...

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The George Washington Lodge of OSIA, will host a Chicken Dinner (Italian Style) benefiting National COPILAS at the George Brent Council, Knights of Columbus Hall at All Saints Catholic Church located at 9300 Stonewall Road. Manassas ,Va.20110. Members of the Lodge and the Knights of Columbus will be preparing and serving the food. The dinner is $7....

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Francesco Fiorello began his career in the restaurant business when he was a boy growing up in Italy. He came to the United States at age 15 and began working in restaurants. Over the years, he learned the fine art of creating delicious recipes with Old World flair.   He has put his expertise to work at his restaurant, Francesco's, located i...

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Language Trainers is an international language training company offering private language classes throughout the country . Our clients, either individuals or companies, typically look for tailor made training at their homes or offices. They always tell us their training needs before they book with us and it is our job to recruit the best possible t...

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I HAVE always been a little underwhelmed by the wines of America's east coast. In comparison to its better known counterparts from the west in California, the USA's east coast regions tend to get forgotten by most of the UK's wine importers – and for good reason. So I was interested to see that one of our most traditional wine merchants, The Wine...

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By Dulcy Hooper  The t-shirts worn by the staff provide an answer to the question before the question can even be asked: Who, or what, is Goomba? ". . . Close Friend, Pal, Companion." As suggested by the name, Quattro Goomba's winery in Aldie was formed by four (quattro) close friends (goomba in Italian)—David and Carole Camden and Jay a...

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by Mary Ann Barton   Love Italian food? Listen up: A new Italian restaurant is slated for Mosaic District, the stylish neighborhood near Vienna in Merrifield, according to a report Tuesday by Washington Business Journal.   The newspaper reports that Boston chef Michael Schlow has set his sites on Mosaic after Alta Strada, owned by Sch...

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By Bill Lohmann   Governor Bob McDonnell announced today that best-selling Virginia author Adriana Trigiani will return to her hometown of Big Stone Gap to shoot the film version of her 2000 novel about the mountain town in Southwest Virginia. Filming is scheduled to begin this fall. Virginia Film Office Director Andy Edmunds said his...

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Date: Saturday, February 21, 2015 - Sunday, April 05, 2015 Venue: Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA Organized by: Muscarelle Museum of Art   Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art, this unprecedented selection of more than twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo from Italian museums is the first e...

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By K. Burnell Evans   About 240 years ago, Antonio Giannini and his wife and daughter left Fibbialla, Italy, for Virginia at the behest of Florentine merchant Philip Mazzei, a friend of Thomas Jefferson's. Part of a cadre of skilled workers Mazzei employed at Colle, his farm adjoining Monticello, Giannini planned to return home after five y...

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