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Watch more than 30 teams throw out the pallino and throw down for a worthy cause at the Fourth Annual Bocce Tournament & Festival. Organized by Jack Mascaro of Mascaro Construction Company, the event benefits the Italian American Endowed Fund, which is dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Italian Americans in Western Pennsylvania....

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by Eric Felack   After the entrees were served at the Zamboni Grill last week, the waitress asked me what I was doing writing all the ingredients down on a tablet. Since all of the food was served, I fessed up that I was doing a newspaper dining review. "Oh, I thought you were going to try and duplicate our dishes at home," she said. A...

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Please join us for this important event: Special Address by Italian Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Claudio BisognieroTRANSATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP: SHRINKING THE ATLANTIC IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION

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More than 35 four-person teams will play bocce Aug. 16 to benefit the Italian-American program at the Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District. The teams will compete under the Veterans Bridge near 13th and Smallman streets in the fifth annual Bocce Tournament and Festival. The festival will feature music by Pure Gold, Jimmy Sapienz...

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Italo Tempera ha 37 anni, è di Latina, vive negli Stati Uniti dal 2006 e ha appena vinto il Premio Campese per la ricerca sulle leucemie. Qualcuno se lo ricorda ancora, giovane consigliere di circoscrizione dell'Ulivo, nel '98, durante un'occupazione del Consiglio comunale di Latina contro l'impasse della maggioranza che non riusciva ad eleggere il...

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by Michael Klein   To think we've been eating our pizza flat for thousands of years. The Italian company Kono specializes in pizza baked into a cone shape, primarily for portability. (It's known there as "pizza al passeggio," or walk-around pizza.)   Three men from South Jersey, having bought a franchise in "The Original" Kono Pi...

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The popemobile is staying local. One of two Fiat 500L cars used by Pope Francis during his September trip to Philadelphia has been sold at auction for $82,000. Michael and Kate Chapman, owners of Chapman Auto Group, secured the winning bid Friday night at a black-tie event kicking off the weekend's Philadelphia Auto Show. Chapman Aut...

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Please join us for the Vittorini Prize Award Ceremony   http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/italians/events/Vittorini2013%20program.pdf   which will open the XXI AISLLI Conference   Italicity   The Languages of Italy in the United States between Tradition and Innovation   http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/italians/XXIAISL...

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By Diane Stoneback Molinari's Restaurant boasts a catchy slogan on its website, Save the Airfare, that emphasizes you don't have to travel overseas for an authentic Italian dining experience. The Bethlehem restaurant perhaps should consider changing that slogan now that it's hosting two Taste of Abruzzo dinners.   The dinners, 6-10 p.m...

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Men of the Cloth, an inspiring documentary by director/producer Vicki Vasilopoulos, will be making its Main Line debut this summer at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.   Shot over the course of eleven years, the film follows three Italian master tailors over the past, present, and future of their craft. The documentary premiered to audiences at...

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