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It will take nearly 200 volunteers to bring the food and entertainment of Italy to the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee this Sunday, from servers to chefs. "These are recipes that have been handed down from generations and it is, it’s good homemade food," said Marie Andaloro-Lieber, president of the Italian Community Center. "We have 24 differ...

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Typically a spring event in the past, the Italian Community Center's annual A Taste of Italy food-focused fundraiser shifted to October in 2024. This year, the event – long held in April with Festa following in July (now that Festa has returned to the Summerfest grounds it kicks off the festival season in spring) – takes place on Sunday, Sept. 7. T...

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  Una nuova casa per la statua di Colombo a Columbus in Ohio? A New Haven in Connecticut si tenta il pizza party più grande del mondo La città di Kenosha in Wisconsin celebra con un murale il gemellaggio con Cosenza Apple TV+ annuncia la première della docuserie “Mr. Scorsese” Due statue simbolo a Philadelphia in Pennsylvania: Rocky all’aeroporto,...

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Kenosha Sister Cities has embarked on an exciting new collaboration.  We are working with Professor Carey Waters and her students at UW-Parkside to create a mural celebrating our relationship with our Sister City in Cosenza, Italy.  Her class will be working with an Italian Mural artist named Carlo Giardina to create two designs, one to be placed i...

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  L'Italian Workmen's Club di Madison in Wisconsin è dichiarato monumento storico nazionale La Ferrero compra la storica azienda americana di cereali Kellogg per 3,1 miliardi di dollari L'Italia dello sport in America: Chiellini, Rossi, Banchero e Marelli E' stato pubblicato "The View From Lake Como", il nuovo libro di Adriana Trigiani Il costume d...

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The Italian Workmen's Club building in Madison (WI) will be receiving a national recognition next Tuesday. The Italian Workmen's Club, located at 914 Regent Street, is set to receive the prestigious designation of a National Historic Landmark. This recognition underscores the building's cultural and historical significance, having served as a corne...

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Several years ago, I had the opportunity to attend The NAMM Show (National Association of Music Merchants) in Anaheim. While I was there, I got to meet many amazing musicians, including Cory Pesaturo, who is a three-time World Accordion Champion and Guinness World Record Holder. Another interesting fact about Pesaturo, he's a young guy. In fact, he...

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For more than three decades, Lena Bruni’s shop at 149 W. Broadway St. was a hidden gem in downtown Waukesha. Now, at the age of 76, the Italian-born seamstress is retiring from her beloved business, Lena’s Tailoring & Alterations, closing a chapter that has made an impact on generations of families and beyond the community of Waukesha. Lena’s story...

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The California wildfire smoke impacting our region and Friday’s rain did not make it an easy day for festival goers in Milwaukee. Festa Italiana kicked off at Henry Maier Festival Park Friday. “This is the place to be,” said Sandy Winard, the executive director of Festa Italiana. “I mean, if you’re not Italian, you’re an official Italian as soon as...

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Our family recently learned of plans to end the MPS Italian Immersion Program as envisioned by our father, Tom Balistreri, and approved by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors in 2004. The proposed change would convert the Italian immersion school from an immersion program into a diluted “world language model,” merely consisting of one language...

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