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When Ovvio Osteria opens Aug. 6, it will be the latest restaurant to bow this year in Halstead Square at Dunn Loring Metro. The Halstead, which is a mixed-use development that includes three separate apartment concepts, has seen a lot of retail activity in recent months. Blackfinn Ameripub, an American restaurant and bar, Jimmy John's sub shop and...

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by Mike Holtzclaw   As manuele De Reggi stared intently at City Center's Fountain Plaza on Thursday afternoon, he saw things that weren't there. It's one of his talents, he acknowledged.   De Reggi, an Italian sculptor, was paying a visit to the future site of one of his next projects, which will depict an elaborate series of boats th...

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The Washington National Opera (WNO) and the Virginia Opera both spring into action this month as their 2013-2014 seasons get underway. WNO is first out the gate, opening its season at the Kennedy Center Opera House this coming Sunday afternoon with a matinee performance of Richard Wagner's epic love story, "Tristan und Isolde." The company wi...

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By Ellen Bhang   When you ask Rudy Maniscalco about the marinara at his new restaurant, he's proud to say it's his mother's recipe. "She loved to cook and to feed people," he says. "The first thing she would ask was 'Are you hungry?'  " Step inside Sugo Cucina Italiana, on a lively stretch of Massachusetts Avenue in East Arlington, and...

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Il Console Generale Italiano Andrea Canepari ha visitato lo scorso 2 aprile il Comando NATO per la Trasformazione di Norfolk, Virginia. A dargli il benvenuto il Gen. Mirco Zuliani, Vice Comandante di ACT, il quale ha poi brevemente illustrato organizzazione, missione e compiti del Comando.   Mentre lo scopo primario della visita era conoscer...

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As he leaned against his conductor's stand, Col. Arnald D. Gabriel wiped a tear from his eye. The 91 year old World War II veteran, who was part of the U.S. Army's 29 th Infantry Division talked about how his parents came to America from Italy many years ago.   Their patriotism, he said, is what makes the Fourth of July so important to him.&...

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Italian designer, Dr. Alberto Grilletti made a stop in Alexandria on Thursday. Dr. Grilletti represents the fashion company Castangia. A company that his family started in 1850.   "Castangia's been dressing the personalities from economics, politics, movie stars, and they entrust to us their style," said Dr. Grilletti. "So this is what...

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U.S. Representative Eliot Engel joins the leadership at the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in congratulating Melinda Kiefer of Mt. Vernon, for receiving a scholarship award through NIAF. The student was chosen from a pool of 1,262 student applicants. Kiefer, who attends Purchase College, State University of New York, received the...

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Paolo Virzì's Oscar-nominated film "Human Capital" was shown at the Middleburg Film Festival in the State of Virginia, where Italo-American soundtrack composer and two-time Oscar nominee Marco Beltrami also gave a concert.   Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero to Washington was on hand with other esteemed guests. Read more, in Italian &nb...

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Amy Grudier of Falls Church has received the Lido Civic Club Matching Scholarship from the National Italian American Foundation. Grudier attends Cedarville University and is majoring in nursing.   NIAF offers dozens of annual scholarships ranging in value from $2,000 to $10,000 each in the humanities, medicine, engineering, business, music,...

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