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Historic Charleston is a large focus of next spring's 40th edition of the Spoleto Festival USA, from glimpses of the city in the iconic opera "Porgy and Bess" to the tragedy of the Emanuel AME Church shootings. The lineup for the internationally known arts festival that runs from May 27 through June 12 was unveiled on Sunday.   It featu...

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By Sybil Fix The house at 57 Laurens St. sits proudly off this quiet street, grounded in beauty and stateliness. Perhaps because it survived the fire of 1838 here, and the Civil War; perhaps because afterward it provided housing for freed slaves. Or perhaps because at sunset, rays of light reach in from the west like elongated fingers and spread l...

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The Sons of Italy Lodge 2868 and the Clarion Hotel are promoting an evening with Aaron Caruso to include dinner and dancing. The event is scheduled for June 13th 2015 at 6:00pm at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, 101 Fantasy Harbor Blvd, Myrtle Beach, S.C. 29579.   The tickets are $45.00 per person which includes dinner, dancing and...

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After speaking with Giovanna De Luca about the upcoming Eighth Annual Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival, I texted my mom lamenting the fact that I have no Italian genes in my very Anglo-Saxon heritage. This love of Italians stays true despite the fact that this year's fest features a majority of films about the economic troubles occurring in Ital...

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La Monteferro USA, che fa capo alla Monteferro Spa di Varese, fornitore di soluzioni per guide e applicazioni di vano per l'industria ascensoristica a livello mondiale, ha annunciato il potenziamento del proprio stabilimento a Orangeburg in South Carolina, con un investimento di $2,1 milioni.   La società espanderà l'impianto di circa 2.900...

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By Sybil Fix   Bearing hilarity and grief, family and conviviality, a raw bite of Mafia and a good dose of meaningful existential pondering, the 9th Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival opens at the College of Charleston next week with a well-balanced mix of the fun and the heavy.   Among the feature films are "Il Nome del Figlio" ("An...

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by Sarah Hope   Months before winning the mayoral seat he would hold for 40 years, Joe Riley was talking about art. "I remember it like it was yesterday," Riley said, sitting behind his large, crowded desk, reflecting on the Spoleto Festival USA's first 39 years. "What I knew — what I believed — was that a great arts festival, a world-class,...

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by Patrick Sisson   A sparse glass-and-metal home may be complimented for its Miesian proportions, and any tower balancing on a curvaceous leg of concrete might get noticed for its debt to Niemeyer, but as far as the dictionary is concerned, just one architect is significant enough to be the official namesake of an architectural style. &nbs...

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With a shower of confetti and the pealing of church bells, the Spoleto Festival USA on Friday opened its new season with a lineup including three operas, a production by Ireland's Gate Theatre and a concert by banjoists Béla Fleck and his wife, Abigail Washburn. The 38th edition of the festival concludes June 8 with a concert and fireworks at Midd...

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By Ishani Chatterji   The best-known Italian puppet, Pinocchio, may not be among the 165 handcrafted marionettes performing at the Emmett Robinson Theater beginning today. But with "Sleeping Beauty," the real-life Geppettos of the Carlo Colla and Sons Marionette Company have dusted off another fairy tale best known to American audiences thro...

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