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Since the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup, one thing that’s always been clear in the strategy of the Italian team Luna Rossa has been to win against well-known opponent Emirates New Zealand.  The two teams were finalists in the …

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Quest’anno ricorre il trentennale della morte di John Fante, lo scrittore e sceneggiatore statunitense di origini italiane, nato a Denver in Colorado l’8 aprile del 1909 e scomparso a Los Angeles l’8 maggio 1983.  Suo padre, Nicola Fante, era un …

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Where I grew up in New York, we lived in a community comprised mostly of Italian Catholics. Our neighborhood bordered a Jewish community and I had many Jewish friends with whom I attended school, but none of them were Italian. …

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Serata dedicata al cinema d’animazione quella di giovedì  22 agosto all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles che ha ospitato la seconda edizione del festival ItaliAnimation, organizzato in collaborazione con la fondazione Cinema Without Borders, l’Art Institute of California – …

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Intense and complex are the two descriptors I see most when describing the wines of Washington state. Washington is way up North, the most northern major winegrowing area in the world. But before you start thinking that this wine country …

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One of my earliest recollections of my father’s town in southern Italy was at nine-years old. The town of approximately 12,000 inhabitants is called Mugnano del Cardinale and it is surrounded by the Irpini Mountains, located just 45 miles from …

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Buona la prima per tutti, tranne che per il Milan di Massimiliano Allegri. Sintesi facile per la prima giornata del campionato di serie A, scattato nel weekend.  Le big (anche quelle in difficoltà come l’Inter) confermano il proprio ruolo e …

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Not many people can lay claim to the distinction of being honored by their city with a day being named after them.  You can if you are an extraordinary person like James Cardinale Hill.  On June 30, 2004 the city …

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Crisi o non crisi, i nostri connazionali alla luna di miele di certo non rinunciano. Specialmente se la destinazione è Stati Uniti d’America. Forse perché, nel corso degli anni, il viaggio di nozze è diventato per gli italiani un momento …

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Dear Readers, An August “abbondanza” of admiration for those arrivals who reached our shores in the early 1900’s… ***   America, where “noses fun and feet smell”, is a land loaded with linguistic lumps in the road for new arrivals …

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