Cranston's Taco Announces Strategic Partnership with Italian Manufacturer
By Mark Schieldrop Cranston's Taco HVAC has entered into a strategic partnering agreemwith with Italian-based Askoll, a manufacturer of pumps used in a variety of industries. The two companies will collaborate on research and development for new circulator pump designs, the company said in a release. The deal will help Taco i...
Apply to the Armenise-Harvard career development award 2015 (cda)
The Giovanni Armenise – Harvard Foundation is pleased to announce it will be offering a CDA to a promising young scientist, currently not in Italy, to contribute to the creation of new areas of research in the biological sciences in Italy. The Giovanni Armenise – Harvard Foundation's mission is to make it possible for young, newly independ...
Opening Alert: Serafina Opens in Boston Tomorrow With Unique Design and Menu Items
by Jacqueline Cain Bostonians get their own Serafina tomorrow when the newest venture from restaurateur Seth Greenberg (Mistral, Bastille Kitchen) and Sterling Group Management opens at 11 a.m., and it truly is Boston's own. The location at 10 High St. in the Financial District features an old-world-meets-new-world design aesthetic, and co...
Columbus Day Fun
by Grace Lentini If you're lucky enough to get a three-day weekend for Columbus Day, you have some options. You could catch up on yard work. You could spend the weekend leaf peeping in New Hampshire. Or, you could stay close to home and take advantage of one of the state's most festive weekends. Party like the Italians do at the Federal H...
Lunch and conversation with Chef Walter Potenza
By Irina Missiuro When it comes to delicious food, the only thing better than talking about it is eating it. On Monday, Nov. 4, at 11 a.m., you'll get to do both at an open meeting of the Miriam Hospital Women's Association. Join Chef Walter Potenza, the Rhode Island restaurateur, cooking school director, cookbook author and connoisseur of Mediter...
An Italian American evening in Lexington
Location: First Parish In LexingtonSaturday May 10, 2014 - 8:00 PM Join the Master Singers of Lexington for a wide-ranging evening of all things Italian: choral music by Italian and Italian American composers from Montiverdi to the present. The concert will feature three secular Montiverdi pieces, Gabrieli's Jubilate Deo, and Verdi's...
Burlington Welcomes First Massachusetts Location for Tuscan Brands
Italy is moving to Massachusetts with the grand opening of Tuscan Kitchen and Tuscan Market in Burlington, MA, located at 24 New England Executive Park. The new restaurant and market which focuses on regional Italian cuisine will span roughly 14,000 square feet and will deliver a true Italian feel. From pastas to artisanal meats and cheeses, to fr...
Poll: Should Christopher Columbus Park Be Renamed Tom Menino Park?
A petition has been started by Commercial Wharf resident, Michael Cohen, to rename Christopher Columbus Park after the late Mayor Tom Menino. As of this writing, the petition has over 1,000 signatures with a goal of 10,000. The petition starts: "The residents of City Of Boston and so many others mourn the passing of Tom Menino who did so m...
Laura Indolfi Wins MIT Descience Fashion Competition
MIT's Media Lab put up a one-of-a-kind fashion show in October. The runway competition Descience Fashion Show combined the creativity of designers with the vision of molecular biologists, neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, climatologists and scientists from a variety of disciplines. This year saw two Italians among the finalists. Italian bioma...
La Motta’s Will Debut Next Week
By Jacqueline Cain The newest restaurant from the Aquitaine Group (Aquitaine, Cinquecento, Metropolis, Gaslight) will open next week, but you may feel like it's been here all along. La Motta's, announced over the summer, is a classic, mid-century-inspired Italian-American eatery—sausage lasagna; meatballs made with pork and beef,...
Spotlight on a Senior: Stephen A. Narracci
By Gail Donahue Think for a moment about how overstated sporting events, especially on the professional level, and all that surround them appear to be. There are massive crowds, cheers, jeers, screaming, injuries, controversy, and salaries equivalent to winning Powerball every year. Sports, in general, and all that goes with it do not imm...
Langone's Florist in Springfield's South End readies for reopening
By Jim Kinney South End institution Langone's Florist is getting fixed up now and will hopefully be open again in January. New operator Brian Grisel, owner of the Gilded Lilly on Wilbraham Road in Sixteen Acres and A Cut Above Florist on Memorial Drive in Chicopee, said Wednesday there was simply too much to do and too little time to...