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By Brooke Meenachan   The 17th Annual Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festival runs through Sunday in Youngstown. The food and music are what keep people coming back year after year. The festival will include a variety of different bands and singers. Some local performers include, Rex Taneri, John Gabriele, Jim Frank Band and Dominic Tocc...

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The Brier Hill Italian Fest will return this week with four straight days of music, food, dancing, bocce and morra tournaments, a wine contest and a hot pepper contest. The event, which begins Thursday, sprawls over a few blocks at the intersection of Calvin and Victoria streets in the Brier Hill neighborhood of the North Side. The hillsi...

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Youngstown, Ohio, never developed a centralized little Italy. Instead, the city's mostly southern Italian settlers chose to live near the foundries, rail yards, and steel mills where Germans, Spaniards, Welsh, Slavs, Irish, African American, and others also called home.   Of these the two most iconic neighborhoods that boasted large Italian...

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By Guy D'Astolfo The Greater Youngstown Italian Festival had been trying to book singer Micheal Castaldo for several years, but the timing was never right — until this year.   The Italian-born tenor will sing Saturday and Sunday inside the Roma Tent, which holds 1,000 people, and his performance will be different both nights. The festival,...

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by Ben Lariccia   La Gazzetta spoke with co-manager of Carmella's Café, Lisa Kelso. La Gazzetta (LG): Good afternoon, Lisa. Thanks so much for inviting La Gazzetta to your restaurant. The minute you walk in you see old family photos. That's not a photo-shopped display. Tell us about your family.   Carmella's: Yes, those are real fami...

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by Joyce Mariani   Like a giant that awakens from a deep slumber, Cleveland's Italian community is in the midst of a vibrant cultural rebirth, a "risorgimento culturale," born from a desire to fully embrace the great mosaic of Italy's rich cultural heritage. Ohio has one of the largest populations of Italian Americans, numbering approximate...

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By Guy D'Astolfo   When it comes to the Greater Youngstown Italian Fest, the motto might be "Don't mess with success." The annual street festival already is the biggest by far in the city, and it keeps growing. But instead of striving for newer and glitzier every year, it aims to keep things exactly the same. That's how you create...

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The Greater Youngstown Italian Fest is accepting nominations for the Italian-American Man and Woman of the Year through June 22. To nominate someone, send a biography with memories that would make him or her worthy of the honor.   Also enclose two color photos and mail to: The Greater Youngstown Italian Fest, c/o John R. Rossetti, 159 N...

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Youngstown History Center of Industry and Labor - 151 West Wood Street, Youngstown, Ohio 44503. Screening - September 24 @ 5pm: La Mia Strada – My Road. Documentary Exploration of Italian American identity. Director, Michael Angelo DiLauro   La Mia Strada (My Road) is a compelling exploration of ethnicity and cu...

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In the collective memory of Mahoning Valley residents, Brier Hill is known as "Little Italy," site of the city's first Italian settlement on the North Side; home to the Brier Hill Italian Festival, and namesake of the appetizing Brier Hill pizza.   The 45-member Mahoning Valley Chorale will pay tribute to that heritage when it presents From...

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