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Back for its fifth annual celebration of the colorful culture of Italy, the Italian Heritage Festival will be held on Saturday, September 13th from 11am to 4pm. While the fun and fabulous food factor will remain the same, the festival is moving its location to the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn. What has made the festival so...

By Corey Charlton   Twins born in Italy and put up for adoption in America have managed to track down their biological family in Europe via Facebook 55 years later. Jana Bennett and her twin sister Lisa Keeler were born in 1960, in Palermo, Italy.   But now more than half a decade later and after numerous failed attempts to find...

by Bret Thorn   Jacques Larson started cooking in Iowa City, Iowa, while studying English and history at the University of Iowa, but he has been cooking in the Southeast for most of the past 17 years.   He arrived in Charleston, S.C., in 1996 as the opening sous chef of the Peninsula Grill. In 2001 he moved to Greensboro, N.C., for hi...

Every September for the past three years, South Carolina's sneaker, (aka Hilton Head Island), gets pulled off and refitted with an Italian boot, known as the Italian Heritage Festival.   If you've missed out on this annual event before now, then you have denied yourself the greatest fun, the best food, the most bodacious wine extravaganza, y...

While the world has been busy looking for the ObamaCare girl, she will probably not help us find a good doctor. And now that we know that the smiling brunette is a woman called Adriana from Maryland, our focus is back on a more important question: How can we find a good doctor? And how do we know he or she is really as good as they claim to be? &n...

The annual Feast of Little Italy, now in its twelfth year, and presented by Arrigo Fiat, returns to Jupiter on November 7, 8, and 9. This celebration of the very best of Italian culture draws thousands of visitors who will enjoy over 150 booths featuring everything from traditional Italian food to jewelry and home furnishings.   This year th...

Nell'elegante ristorante italiano "Arturo's" di Boca Raton si è svolta la manifestazione in onore del nuovo console generale d'Italia a Miami, la dott.ssa Gloria Marina Bellelli. Erano presenti la senatrice Maria Sachs, col marito Peter, il prof. Luigi Tommasini, marito della console generale, l'ex console Pasquale Centracchio e circa un centi...

Novità nell'orario di apertura del Consolato italiano a Miami. Dal 1 ottobre il Consolato rimarrà chiuso al pubblico il giovedì. Per i restanti giorni della settimana è confermato l'orario di apertura attualmente in vigore: Lunedi, Martedì e Venerdì - dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 12.00; Mercoledì - dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 12.00 e dalle ore 15.00 alle o...

The Sons of Italy presented Special Olympics of St. Johns County with a check for $502 at the organization's April 10 meeting. Zack King and his mother, Leah, accepted the check for the local Special Olympics chapter.   The money was raised in a Bocce Ball Tournament at the St. Augustine Pier in March, where 11 teams competed.   Sourc...

The Italian-American Heritage Society of Boca Raton is putting on a St. Joseph's celebration in Delray Beach March 11 with plenty of pasta, Italian music and history from the old country.   "We have 150 people booked already and everyone is really looking forward to this event," said Paul Pontrelli, secretary of The Italian-American Heritage...

The annual Feast of Little Italy, now in its twelfth year, and presented by Arrigo Fiat, returns to the Abacoa Town Center in Jupiter, Florida on November 7, 8 and 9th. This celebration of the very best of Italian culture draws thousands of visitors who will enjoy over 150 booths featuring everything from traditional Italian food to jewelry and hom...

Author Grace Mattioli has been chosen as one of '50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading'. The award was the result of a public voting process and her appearance on The Authors Show in which she discussed her latest realistic fiction novel, 'Discovery of an Eagle'.   The new book delves deeply into life issues but at the same time offers witt...