Firehouse.com reports, “The acrid plume gave off a scent just strong enough to pique Raleigh Powell’s interest as he zipped down Grooms Road on Sunday evening heading to what appeared to be another uneventful round of pizza deliveries in Saratoga County.

KnoxNews.com reports, “The Pizza Palace’s iconic neon-and-porcelain sign just turned half a century old, but the familiar image of the smiling chef holding the piping hot pizza and proudly proclaiming “mmm-mmm” never looked better. Aided by a grant from Knox Heritage’s Save Our Signs program, the colorful piece of Americana is as spiffy as it was on Aug. 10, 1961, when the popular Knoxville drive-in opened for business on Magnolia Avenue. ‘Historic signs, at some point, sort of transcend being an advertising sign and become an icon for folks in the community,’ said Kim Trent, executive director of Knox Heritage.”

FastCasual.com reports, “has announced new store openings throughout Atlanta and in Louisville, Ky.”

NYTimes.com reports, “A heady perfume of cheese, tomatoes and crispy coal-fired crust wafts onto the sidewalk of Old Fulton Street, intoxicating enough to cause tourists to snap pictures and queue in stomach-growling anticipation.”

UNLVRebelYell.com reports, “A design contest sponsored by upcoming Italian restaurant Amore de Roma Pizzeria is encouraging creative UNLV students to submit designs for the venue.”

GQ reports, “In mid-October, well before the allegations (of sexual harrassment) started to break, GQ sent correspondent Chris Heath, senior editor Devin Gordon, and food critic Alan Richman to Seventh Hill in Washington, D.C., the best pizza joint in town, to have a Sunday-afternoon pizza party with the GOP’s surprise front-runner. Within minutes of sitting down, we discovered one reason why Cain has done so well despite crossing so many lines: No matter what blunder or offense pops out of his mouth (and plenty do), it’s awfully hard not to like him.”

MIdTownLunch.com reports, “Pizza by Cer Te has started offering Thanksgiving pizza this week, according to their twitter. Topped with turkey meatballs, mashed potatoes, cranberries, gravy and mozzarella, the slice sounds like the most delicious gut bomb ever! A call to the store told us the special is supposed to last through next week, and the slice will run you $3.95.”

Relive the excitement of the Orlando Pizza Show with footage from all three days of competition. For more check out the November 2011 issue of PMQ Pizza Magazine and find additional footage on PizzaTV.com.

SPIN! Neapolitan Pizza, James Beard Award-winning Chef Michael Smith, and Cellar Rat Wine Merchants are joining forces to benefit Harvesters: the Community Food Network. On four Tuesdays in November, the collaboration of friends will present “Tour d’ Italia” pizza and wine flight dinners. Each week will feature four wines from a different Italian wine region along with a specially created four-course meal.

DNAinfo.com reports, “Ask devotees of the original Ray’s Pizza what makes a perfect slice, and you’ll get any number of answers: just enough oil; a ridge of oven-fresh dough; or a rich, creamy layer of cheese. The city may be full of imitators, they say, but there’s nothing like the original. ‘You come down here and it’s hot out of the oven, and the cheese is really creamy,’ said Randy Warshaw, 27, who lives on the Lower East Side. ‘The other chains are exactly that—chains.'”

NYTimes.com reports, “Breakfast meetings, perhaps, are best suited to Hollywood types, people who pitch and spin even before the first coffee. When I found myself in San Francisco early this month along with Nancy Silverton, the esteemed founder of La Brea Bakery and the restaurant Campanile in Los Angeles, the only time we could get together was for breakfast. Ms. Silverton, who now owns two of Los Angeles’s most popular restaurants, Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza, with Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich.”

WestWord.com reports, “When the Kitchen [Next Door] opened in Boulder earlier this year, it didn’t have a single bottle of wine on the beverage list.”

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According to the Punxsutawney Spirit, “Once again, it was another successful year for Fox’s Pizza Den’s “Pizza and Prevention” fund-raiser, as more than $31,000 was raised for the Punxsutawney Fire Department Saturday.”

Couriernews.suntimes.com reports, “There isn’t a strong enough word to express his gratitude for his customers’ outpouring of support this week, said Nick’s Pizza & Pub owner Nick Sarillo.”

The UPI reports, “Authorities in British Columbia said they are searching for a black bear that strolled into a pizzeria, ate an entire pizza and skipped out on its bill.”

SignOnSanDiego.com reports, San Diego County breweries, led by the Pizza Port chains, won a record number of medals at Denver’s Great American Beer Festival on Saturday.”

The New York Times reports, “A lot of pizzeria managers say their pies are different from those the other guys make. But John Ausiello, manager of Tomato Pie in Morristown, may have a better claim than most. ‘You see one of our pies and it’s clear they’re pretty not-regular,’ Mr. Ausiello, 35, said.”