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The twentieth century began with the promise of new inventions, art forms, the automobile and much more that would stimulate the most significant expansion of creativity not experienced since the Renaissance. Along with the promise of a new age, came a rebirth of music’s highest form…the Opera. The music of Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, and many oth...

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Eric Lanzieri of Connecticut has published the true story of finding his relatives in Italy nearly fifty years after his grandmother’s last contact with them. Eric, an attorney and a teacher of college courses in law, explains how a confluence of circumstances allowed him to travel to his grandmother’s home town of Scafati in 1994, where he told th...

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Saturday March 10, 6 PM EST. 310 3rd Ave, Jessup, PA 18434-1045. The release will be upstairs with a reception downstairs at the tavern to follow! Join us to celebrate the book release of Images of America: Italians of Lackawanna County by Dunmore resident Stephanie Longo. Stephanie has chosen the Saint Ubaldo Society Cultural Center to be the firs...

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Baseball Italian Style brings together the memories of major leaguers of Italian heritage whose collective careers span almost a century, from the 1930s up to today. In these first-person accounts, baseball fans will meet at an intimate level the players they cheered as heroes or jeered as adversaries, as well as coaches, managers, front-office exe...

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Nato in Sicilia Carlo Mignano vive a New York dal 1962. Dopo essersi diplomato da un liceo nel Queens ha prestato servizio nella Guardia Costiera USA per un periodo di quattro anni. Dopo il suo congedo è andato a studiare a Parigi ottenendo un Diploma in Lingua e Cultura Francese. Ha poi frequentato il CUNY Hunter College e l’Università di New York...

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Ciao from Rome, Let's celebrate!! This is the 100th issue of our magazine. I can't believe it! It seems yesterday, and yet it was October 2013, when we had the idea of having articles written for us, in English, regarding some Italian excellences. There was no flipping book magazine back then, the articles were published in a brand new section of o...

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The Italian American Museum cordially invites you to attend "The Alchemy of Italy" Presented by Carla Gambescia. Thursday, February 22nd, 6:30 PM. 155 Mulberry Street (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) New York, NY 10013 What is it about Italy? Cultural Superpower yet merely a mountainous Mediterranean peninsula, Italy has exerted an outsized f...

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Some authors write only a few books, others have a plethora of titles to their name. An example of the latter is the prolific Ann Hood who has written 14 novels — many of them bestsellers — three memoirs, a short story collection, a 10-book series for middle readers and one young adult novel. Her essays and short stories have appeared in many journ...

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It’s one of food’s most beautiful relationships: pasta and sauce. But which came first—and how on Earth are you supposed to figure out which of those hundreds of shapes to serve with your pesto? With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we bring you the saucy—and occasionally scientific—history of an Italian staple. Listen in now as we take you from...

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Saturday, March 3rd, 3 PM - Garibaldi Meucci Museum · 420 Tompkins Avenue · Staten Island, NY 10305. Rosemary Novellino-Mearns' presentation has been seen nationwide. In Saving Radio City Music Hall, Rosemary Novellino-Mearns reveals how this premier tourist attraction was saved from demolition. After years of struggling with intense, sometimes pai...

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