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Springfield, Missouri, is a beautiful city filled with lush greenery, rolling hills, and a charming downtown area. It’s a place where people are friendly, the air is crisp and clean, and the food scene is nothing short of amazing. This city truly has it all, and its food culture is one of the best things about it. As a traveler, I have had the plea...

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Beloved Italian deli Cupini's turns 20 - and wants to thank all of their friends and family for their support. The restaurant's birthday party is on April 22 and everyone is invited. To show gratitude, Cupini's is raffling off two free round-trip tickets to Italy, and the winner will be drawn that night. Order tickets at cupinis.com (Raffle Tickets...

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The Feast of St. Joseph, on March 19, is a major celebration for Italian Catholics in Kansas City. Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Columbus Park lays claim to the city's original “St. Joseph Table," with volunteers spending weeks baking 30,000 homemade cookies. Ahead of St. Joseph’s Day, the pews at Holy Rosary Catholic Church are already filled — b...

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Few art aficionados can rattle off many names of 18th-century women artists. And one who is Jewish? That’s almost like chancing upon a yeti riding a unicorn. Having bought a Torah ark curtain by Simhah Viterbo (1739-79) in 2019, the Saint Louis Art Museum is sticking with the Jewish artist, whose husband and son were rabbis. In December, it bought...

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The “Singing Italian Chef” returned to his hometown of Crystal City (MO) on Feb. 18 to sign copies of his recently published “Home Party Cookbook.” Silverio “Sil” Pagano was born in 1955, a year after his parents, Ugo and Esterina, immigrated from Italy to Crystal City. His grandfather, Biagio, had settled in Crystal City years before and worked fo...

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Have you ever walked into an Italian restaurant in Missouri, absolutely certain of what you were going to order? Maybe you’ve been craving a classic pasta dish, for example, and you finally make your way to your favorite Italian eatery in Missouri. Then you sit down and start browsing the menu, and that craving starts to grow until…you see a list o...

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A new Italian restaurant has made its way to the Belhaven Town Center! Chaz Lindsay, a Belhaven native and owner of Pulito Osteria, held an official grand opening for the restaurant on January 31. Pulito Osteria is located at 800 Manship St., suite 104. According to Jonathan Webb, co-owner of Pulito Osteria, Lindsay have been wanting to start a res...

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Virtually every major American city has its own Italian neighborhood. Some of the most well-known, such as Manhattan's Little Italy, Boston's North End, and Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, lie on the East Coast. San Francisco has North Beach, while farther inland, Chicago has University Village, per AFAR. Missouri, however, is special. It...

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Memory…belongs to the same part of the soul as imagination; it’s a collection of mental pictures from sense impressions but with a time element added, for the mental images of memory are not from perception of things present but of things past. —Frances Yates from The Art of Memory I grew up in a curious little locale hidden away on the north side...

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Steve Spagnuolo is an Italian American football coach who serves for the Kansas City Chiefs in NFL as a defensive coordinator. He led his team Chiefs to win the Super Bowl LIX by defeating the 69ers. Not only that, he even led his club New York Giants to win Super Bowl XLII. Steve began his NFL career coaching in the Philadelphia Eagles organizatio...

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