For a while there it looked like Melbourne’s precious public Italianess was reduced to Bianchi bikers. Three years ago the Lygon Street Festa ceased to exist, and was subsumed by a bike race - that ended in Lygon Street. But, the Festa’s back. This weekend, there’s Liberace and Jerry Lewis impersonators (the latter Italian by association with Deano presumably), sausage- and wine-making demonstrations and street theatre. All the shops’ll be open; there’ll be stalls; children, nonnas and parents will take over the roads, and we can all rest assured that this city can still throw a decent party.