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Thursday, August 7th @ 8 PM - Summer Italian Film Festival Week 5 - Otto e Mezzo (1963)This classic Fellini film stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous film director. Guido Anselmi is suffering from the dreaded "directors block" while working on a science fiction film with autobiographical references.   As Guido stru...

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If you're an Italian-American, especially if your roots track back to Southern Italy, you know that it has long been customary to steer clear of eating meat on Christmas Eve.   Instead, traditional, family-style celebrations on Christmas Eve, or La Vigilia, as the day is referenced in parts of Italy, are often marked by a Feast of Seven Fish...

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"David Mercaldo has a daring new book: ...a herculean task... An important book we must read with a healthy curiosity." -MARIO FRATTI Playwright ("NINE") International Theater Critic "Mercaldo's pen has gone where no other Italian author's pen has ever gone before!" -Italian American Magazine "Among the most controve...

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, our borough has the best legit Italian culture in all five boroughs. However, it doesn't hurt to sample off-Island offerings once in a while.   On Sunday, June 22, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will host an upstate bus trip to the Magnanini Vineyards in Wallkill, New York. After a stroll on the lush 13-acres of beautiful coun...

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"The Godfather Effect"Changing Hollywood, America, and Me With Author Tom SantopietroThursday, February 286:30 PM Light fare and refreshments will be served.Space is Limited. RSVP's encouraged and appreciated. Using excerpts from "The Godfather Trilogy," Tom Santopietro guides guests through a journey that examines the continuing hold Francis Fo...

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Continuing in a tradition of elegance, exquisite cuisine, and exemplary service, The Staaten will provide the perfect setting for our annual fundraising event.   This event makes it possible for the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, owned and administered by the Order Sons of Italy in America, to collect, preserve and exhibit material relating to the...

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By Maureen Donnelly   The Italian American Women of Staten Island will hold its annual scholarship dinner on Monday, June 3, at 6 p.m. in Colony Hall on the campus of Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home, 460 Brielle Ave. Returning as co-chairs of the dinner are the mother-daughter team of Janice Lo Presti and Audrey Lo Presti. S...

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By Stephanie Slepian After a one-year hiatus, the Columbus Day Parade returns. Floats, school bands and costumed characters -- including Christopher Columbus himself -- will travel the traditional route up New Dorp Lane at 1 p.m. on Oct. 6.   "We're back," said Borough President James P. Molinaro, who came under fire when he canceled l...

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Despite Hollywood television stints and daily toils with their multiple pizzerias, cousins Francis Garcia and Sal Basille took time to talk with the Advance about their rise to fame from humble beginnings -- and their favorite pie on S.I. Just as background, the native Staten Islanders have hit the big leagues as far as pizza chefs are concern...

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By Thomas Kaplan John A. Catsimatidis let Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo borrow a Gulfstream IV jet this spring so he could fly to Binghamton, N.Y., for a wedding. Bill de Blasio was a deputy to Mr. Cuomo during the Clinton administration; William C. Thompson Jr. was a chairman of Mr. Cuomo's gubernatorial campaign; and Joseph J. Lhota served in his adminis...

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