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The Sicilian American Cultural Association will hold its annual Medal of Merit dinner on Sept. 16 Cucina Biagio in Harwood Heights. This year’s recipient is attorney Sam F. Cannizzaro. (773-454-4771). Cannizzaro is a Sicilian American who has lived on the Northwest Side of Chicago all his life. He is a family law attorney and partner of the downtow...

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Il Comitato per il Ripristino della Festa della Madonna Nera cordially invites you to the 15th Annual Festa in Honor of the Sicilian Black Madonna del Tindari. Saturday, September 8, 2017, 6PM at the Phoenix Bar, located at the former site of her devotion, 447 East 13th Street, off of Avenue A, Manhattan. Each September 8, a group of people gathers...

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Casa Cuseni is a house in Taormina rich in history and secrets, including frescoes of a homosexual love story it hid for over a century. Greta Garbo, Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso, Bertrand Russell and Roald Dahl all stayed at the home built in 1905 by British painter Robert Hawthorn Kitson, the son of a very rich industrialist in Leeds. The home, whi...

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In August 1948, the city of Syracuse celebrated its centennial. The celebration was going to be the largest civic event in the city's history. Syracuse streets and buildings were decorated, a four-hour parade was planned along with a mammoth Centorama held at Archbold Stadium, with a cast of 3,000 people, which would illustrate Syracuse history. An...

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La Chiesa della Salute di Castelvetrano, si ripresenta ai suoi fedeli soprattutto a quelli di oltre oceano, nel suo splendore originario, grazie ad una raccolta di fondi promossa dall’Associazione che porta da decenni il nome di Castelvetrano. Quattro mesi e passa di lavori interni e del prospetto con un ottimo risultato. Sentita quindi e partecipa...

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Ieri sera, 8 agosto 2018 a Galati Mamertino, si è inaugurata la sede della fondazione impegnata nel campo della promozione del territorio Siciliano e particolarmente della zona dei Nebrodi e della cultura enogastronomica che legata alla zona, intitolata al noto chef Celestino Drago che, proprio per la sua ormai quarantennale attività nel settore de...

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Just a few years ago, you might have been forgiven for thinking that Palermo’s main attraction was its collection of Mafia hot spots. Sure, the city’s tangled history with Godfather-esque organized crime dons will continue to lure its fair share of tourists to the capital of Sicily. But nowadays, Italy’s fifth-largest city is drawing an increasingl...

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Quando alcuni studenti di architettura, anni fa, parlarono con i loro professori del Teatro di Andromeda gli edotti risposero che non andava preso a modello perché dal punto di vista architettonico non rispettava molti criteri. Quest'anno, Lorenzo Reina, che questo teatro lo ha costruito pietra su pietra nel corso di trent'anni, si è preso una bell...

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On hot summer days, here in New York City, you will often see, at a stoplight in one of the neighborhoods where the traffic gets thick and slow, or in one of the places where the hapless pods of tourists find themselves most exposed to the sun’s pitiless rays, a young man or woman equipped with a blue Igloo ice chest and a lot of lungpower, pulsing...

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While the film is based on a true story, it is interwoven with fictional elements. It isn’t until the final title card arrives that the film openly acknowledges its real-life roots. Sicilian Ghost Story follows the story of Luna and her friend Giuseppe. The two schoolchildren are best friends, and Luna nurses a crush on Giuseppe, despite her mother...

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