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Sylvester Stallone will be outside the Philadelphia Museum Art for the grand opening of the new Rocky Shop and to declare Dec. 3 "Rocky Day" in the city this weekend. Rocky himself will be at the event at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Parkway Visitor Center, which sits adjacent to Eakins Oval near the museum. The grand opening event, hosted by the Visitor...

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Bellini’s Italian Eatery in Slingerlands is already looking to expand after moving to the Vista Technology Campus earlier this year. Bellini’s is an extremely popular restaurant and bar among Bethlehem residents and beyond. The restaurant was located in the Price Chopper, now Market32, retail plaza in Slingerlands for 20 years before moving across...

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Sports radio broadcasting icon Angelo Cataldi has written a book. It's called "Loud: How a Shy Nerd Came to Philadelphia and Turned Up The Volume in the Most Passionate Sports City in America." Over three decades behind the mic, Cataldi made many friends and enemies. He challenged sports figures on his daily show and reflects on all of it in his ne...

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The owners of a popular Italian restaurant in Hanover Township, Northampton County have debuted another tasty venture a few miles south of the dining establishment. Father and son Giacomo and Phillip Sgroi, native Sicilians who opened Nonna Sulina’s Sicilian Kitchen & Grill in 2020 at 5000 Bath Pike, on Friday opened Nonna’s Italian Market – offeri...

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Local choir and dance students will perform in the third annual “Anthony Nunziata: My Italian Christmas! In Concert” at Theater at North, 1539 N. Main Ave., Scranton, PA. The show, which is part of Nunziata’s holiday tour, will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2. It will feature local students as special guests including songs sung by the Vall...

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Gina Burke, her husband, Joe Burke, and their son, Joe, Jr., opened Trevi BYOB in April 2011. 12 years later, 21 E Glenside Avenue is still going strong, and after 24 years living in Huntingdon Valley, so are Gina and Joe, Sr. The Burkes have been in the restaurant business from early adulthood to the present. The duo learned how to make pizza in M...

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After a full two years of pop-up appearances in the region, the chef-friends behind the casual Italian concept Paffuto are ready to settle down. Dec. 6 is the planned debut of their all-day cafe at 1009 S. Eighth St. in South Philadelphia. It’s a 22-seater in the former Bibou and Pif. Jake Loeffler, Daniel Griffiths, and Sam Kalkut will offer break...

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Salvatore Vetri, 87, a retired business owner and real estate broker, and father figure to the Philadelphia restaurant community, died unexpectedly Wednesday at his home on Rittenhouse Square of natural causes, his family said. Mr. Vetri — Sal or Salvy to everyone — was the father of Risa Vetri Ferman, a Montgomery County Common Pleas Court judge a...

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If you regularly attend the Pittston Tomato Festival Parade, or the Columbus Day festivities in downtown Pittston, you’ll likely need no introduction to the Cino Paci Band. But if you haven’t yet had the pleasure of hearing the group play their Italian and American melodies, perhaps you would like to attend their 100th anniversary concert, set for...

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The Newtown Library Company, the oldest operating library in Bucks County, is bringing a traditional “Italian Christmas Concert" to Newtown featuring award-winning Italian tenor and producer Michéal Castaldo. The concert takes place on Dec. 7 beginning at 7 p.m. at the historic Newtown Theatre located at 120 N. State Street in Newtown Borough. Door...

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