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Over a decade ago, Nick Nurse and Mike Longabardi took a walk in Venice. There may even have been a boat ride through the Italian city’s iconic canals. They needed a break while working the Adidas Eurocamp, where about a half-dozen NBA assistant coaches helped prospects being scouted for the upcoming draft. Yet even while immersed in such a pristin...

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Master stonemason Giovanni Sassone wanted to be a doctor or a police officer, and he has a kidding personality that would work in standup comedy. But his masonry career is in his blood. “I am honoring my great-grandfather,” stonemason Salvatore Giovanni Cantera. When arriving from Abruzzo in 1898, Salvatore brought with him 20 stonemasons, some blo...

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Looking to continue the legacy created by his uncle John DiLeo, John Thompson has opened Gio’s Pizza Co. in the former Casa DiLeo space on Rehoboth Avenue Extended outside Rehoboth Beach. Thompson co-owns the new pizza shop with his wife Dana Marmo. They took over the restaurant space earlier this year. The couple also owns and operates the origina...

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The Rehoboth Area Chapter opened its 2024-25 season with a get-together at Nicola Pizza on Sept. 19. A calendar of events and meetings continuing “Service Above Self” and supporting local and national charities was presented with special emphasis given to Italian heritage and culture. Members benefit from association in a national organization off...

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Cooking a delicious meal is like a piece of art. Watch this cheese bubble and brown and caramelize, the chef says, pointing to a blazing hot oven at Touch of Italy restaurant in Rehoboth Beach. Thick layers of soft, salty muenster cheese melt beautifully atop a giant piece of chicken parmesan. The chicken is sliced and pounded with precision, the h...

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Gallery One announced its exhibition, Celebrating an Artistic Bridge Between Greve, Tuscany, Italy, and the USA, will be open to the public through Wednesday, October 30, at 32 Atlantic Ave., Ocean View, DE. During April, the City of Greve, Italy, celebrated its most famous explorer, Giovanni da Verrazzano, and the 500th anniversary of his explorat...

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National Italian-American Heritage month was established by the United States Congress in October 1989 to recognize Italian-Americans’ contributions to American society and highlight the impact of the Italian-American community on American culture. And while “inclusion” is a popular buzzword in today’s politically correct climate, the concept is no...

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Longtime Delaware County journalist Peg DeGrassa will accept the Athena Leadership Award at the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Luncheon on Oct. 9 at the Llanerch Country Club on West Chester Pike in Havertown, Pa. DeGrassa is the editor of Town Talk Newspapers and The News and Press of Delaware County, and a reporter for The Delawar...

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For a century, St. Anthony of Padua Parish has been a mainstay of Wilmington’s Little Italy, and the parish is ready to celebrate its birthday. It’s so big that the parish will take an entire year to properly mark the milestone. It all begins on Oct. 6 with a Year of Jubilee Mass at 10:30 a.m. at the church, which is located at Ninth and Dupont str...

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April 2024 500 years later: "Leonardo da Vinci and Verrazzano's Royal Discovery of New York"

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