There was Plenty to see and eat at this year’s South 9th Street Italian Market Festival. Just about everywhere you looked on Saturday people were enjoying pizza, pasta, sausage and peppers, meatballs and roast pork sandwiches and a whole lot more. “I think the Italian Market Festival is fun because it’s not as cookie cutter as some of the other fes...

During the years of mass emigration from Italy to the US, one of the peculiarities of the Little Italies all over the US definitively was the street market. Many used to spend several hours on the street: people would work hard, start their small business, socialize with other "paisanos", meet friends and maybe future spouses, get a life away from...