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Ha corso sempre a cento all'ora sul circuito della sua vita, lui che è stato per decenni cantore inimitabile dei campioni e dei bolidi del suo amato automobilismo.   Lino Manocchia è pronto a tagliare un altro importante traguardo, apprestandosi oggi a compiere il 93° giro di pista della sua corsa con lo stesso entusiasmo, la stessa energia...

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Please follow the link below to sign a petition asking the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate 31 West 57th street, an individual and interior landmark. Click here to sign the petition to designate 31 West 57th Street as an Individual and Interior Landmark (Change.org)   The Rizzoli Bookstore building is an icon of New Y...

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Growing up with a mother of Italian descent, I can't recall ever seeing a measuring cup in our kitchen. There were cookbooks, but the rare times they were opened, recipes were treated more like suggestions.   Substitutions were frequent, measurements were eyeballed and, after years spent watching her cook with my knees on a stool and elbows...

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Celebrity Chef and Author Mary Ann Esposito will be stopping by the Durham Public Library on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 6:30 p.m.   The library is at 49 Madbury Road. Free parking with overflow parking will be available at Oyster River Middle School, 1 Coe Drive, Durham.   Read more   Source: http://www.fosters.com   &n...

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Fri, July 17, | From 7:00 am - 9:00 am Dante Alighieri Society Book ClubFriday, July 17, 2015 7 pm 630 N Old Woodward – Time: 7-9 pmSuite 102 Birmingham, MI 48009   Agostino By Alberto MoraviaThirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan sea-side resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new...

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by Catherine Accardi Part I of my Conversations with Lawrence Ferlinghetti appeared in the last, June 25th, 2015, issue of L'Italo Americano. Below we continue with the man and his lasting legacy. Mr. Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, N.Y. in 1919, son of Carlo Ferlinghetti, from the province of Brescia, and Clemence Albertine Mendes-Monsanto...

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On Dec. 4, a book presentation with Italian judge and chief executive of the Italian Ministry of Justice Stefano Dambruoso, author of "A Moment Before," about how fundamentalist terrorism has changed in the 10 years since 9-11. Moderated by Italians in DC President Ivan Butina, the panel will include: Italian journalist Guido Olimpio; Eric Terzuolo...

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Wednesday, September 25 - 12:15 PM - Queens College - Kiely Hall 270 Italian Signs, American Politics: Current Affairs, Historical Perspectives, Empirical Analyses - Ottorino Cappelli, editor   This book analyses intra-ethnic elections in the United States, in the circumstance of American politicians of Italian desc...

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Thursday, November 13For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. The lives of these Italian women are woven into the artifacts of memory and imagination: embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. Embroidered Stories (University Press...

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Interview by Marianna Randazzo   GMM : Tell us about your lives before your year long sojourn in Italy. We were retired, but involved in our community on Long Beach Island, NJ. Both of us were volunteers at the LBI Foundation for the Arts & Sciences. We chaired fundraising events and Nancy enjoyed working at the clay studio where she wa...

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