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IA Literati 2018 — Casa Italia’s 14th annual celebration of local Italian-American authors — will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 12 in the Florentine Room of the Italian Cultural Center in Stone Park. Book sales and signings, raffles, and a meet-and-greet with the authors will take place at 9:30 a.m. Authors will read from their works starting...

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The war came to Giuseppe “Pino” Lella right as he watched Fred Astaire dance with Ginger Rogers. It was the summer of 1943 and Lella, then 17 years old, was sitting next his brother, Mimmo, at a movie theater in his native Milan watching the cinematic duo twirl across the screen. For a brief moment, the war that had engulfed Europe and Nazi-occupie...

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When you leave your homeland with almost nothing, for a land you don't know, where people you don't know speak a language you don't know, the shock is almost unbearable. That's what happened to millions of Italians during the mass emigration period. The studies about Italian American dialects and how our fellow Italians adapted their way to speak t...

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Giada De Laurentiis has become famous in her own right, one of Food Network’s most recognizable stars, but it was another famous figure who stirred her passion for food — her grandfather Dino. “My earliest food memory is when I was 5, making pizza dough with my grandfather,” De Laurentiis says. “My nonno[grandfather] loved cooking, loved spending t...

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Pubblico delle grandi occasioni, domenica sera, al Center for Jewish History di New York per la presentazione del romanzo di Alain Elkann ‘’Money Must Stay in the Family’’, appena pubblicato in inglese dalla CPL Edition, la casa editrice del Centro Primo Levi di New York. Uscito in Italia già nel 1996 con il titolo “I soldi devono restare in famigl...

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Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave. Suite 1450 - Chicago, IL. Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT). From its origins in New Orleans through the Big Band, Swing, Be-Bop, and Modern Era, Americans of Italian heritage have made vital contributions to Jazz Music. Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Louie Bellson, Lenni...

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The Sonnetarium, the latest collection of poems by Maine author Lewis P. Turco of Dresden, will be published next month by Bordighera Press of New York City (www.BordigheraPress.org) under the VIA Folios line, a series of poetry, prose, fiction, translations from the Italian, and critical studies on Italian and Italian-American culture. The collect...

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Milwaukee's Larry Baldassaro is the author and/or editor of a number of great books about baseball history, including "Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball," "Ted Williams: Reflections on a Splendid Life" and co-editor of "he American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity." You may also recognize Baldassaro's name from his work for the Milwaukee B...

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Adriana Trigiani is no stranger to Naples audiences. She is the only speaker to make two appearances at the Nick Linn Lecture Series. On Monday, March 26, she'll make it three. The best-selling author, scriptwriter and director is the final speaker of the series' 15th year. She follows Dorothea Benton Frank, Christian Baker Kline and Gregg Hurwitz....

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WHERE: Sidewalk Café, 94 Avenue A (6th Street) East Village, NYC-10009 - WHEN: Saturday, April 14, 2018 @ 5:30 – 7:30 pm WHO: Maria Fama’ is the author of seven books of poetry including Mystics in the Family, Looking for Cover, and the newly released, Other Nations :an animal journal. Her work appears in numerous publications and has been antholog...

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