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Massimo Riva and his friend Guy Borlée sat at a café table outside the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna sipping wine and dreaming of ways to share their experiences with Riva's friends and family back home in Providence. "I wanted to bring this back to my students at Brown," says Riva, who is a professor of Italian studies at the university. "Brown has b...

A documentary on ex-Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci will be shown at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Jamestown Arts Center, 16 Valley St. The Emmy Award-winning movie, “Buddy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Notorious Mayor,” was written, produced and directed by Cherry Arnold. It is a complex portrait of the contradictory and audacious man who became the...

Saturday, February 11 at 3 pm. Hannaford Hall at USM, Portland (Abromson Center, 88 Bedford St) Maine Public is the media sponsor of Portland Ovations Classical Series including Handel & Haydn Society performing Glories of the Italian Baroque. Concertmaster/violinist Aisslinn Nosky leads an ensemble of 15 Handel & Haydn Society musicians in this gl...

Two red boxing gloves rest at the center of a big round decal on the floor at the Rocky Club, its logo symbolizing the club's colorful history hosting bouts in a city steeped in boxing lore. This winter afternoon Lawrence-born Dave Bradstreet, 68, tends bar at the social club, affectionately known as "The Rocky."  The large room here at 11 Trinity...

L’alto numero di pugili americani di origine italiana che popolarono le riunioni statunitensi fino agli anni ’50 dello scorso secolo, induceva molti di essi ad affrontarsi tra di loro, in particolar modo quando il valore dei contendenti era più elevato rispetto alla media nazionale. In tale maniera il 29 gennaio 1951, nella città di Holyoke, Massac...

Owners of 24 Lamborghinis paid an eye-popping visit to Mount Washington on Monday as part of the Lamborghini Giro, an annual tour taken on some of the most scenic roads in America. After driving to the summit of the highest peak in the Northeast, the owners of the cars — mainly 10 HP V10 Huracans and the 700 HP V12 Aventadors — enjoyed lunch a...

May 5, 2015. Tuesday 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMBJFF - West Newton Cinema - 1296 Washington StreetWest Newton, Massachusetts 02465   An estimated 80 percent of Italy's Jews survived WWII thanks, in part, to Italian citizens who risked their lives defying the Nazis to save their Jewish neighbors. Among the figures spotlighted by Oscar-nominat...

Benvenuti al Circolo!Siamo un gruppo di persone interessate a non perdere il nostro italiano. Ci raduniamo due volte al mese e cerchiamo veramente di parlare SOLO italiano per due ore! Venite a trovarci alla nostra prossima riunione, ma se non potete,ecco come voi potete creare il vostro proprio circolo.   Welcome to Circolo!We are a group o...

This event brings together the Italian Sailing School "Mascalzone Latino", run by Vincenzo Onorato and three sailing schools of Boston   June 16 and 22, 2013 - BostonMIT Sailing Pavilion, Courageous Sailing Center, Community Boating Professionisti Italiani a Boston, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Boston, will h...

Neapolitan Italian tenor Giovanni Formisano sings a recital of songs in Italian and in Neapolitan dialect with opera arias from Andrea Chenier, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Corsaro and L'Arlesiana. Sunday, 12 April, 2015, at 2:30 p.m. Dante Alighieri Society of MA - 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139   He will be assisted by...

Andrea Pirlo spins the soccer ball in his hands and places it in the grass about 45 yards from the goal. He takes a couple steps back and signals to his teammates that he is ready to take the free kick. It is Jan. 11, a pleasant day in Turin, Italy, as Italian soccer giant Juventus matches up against Napoli. Pirlo strikes the ball, curling it throu...

by Ed Condran   Don't expect Gianluca Ginoble to be hung over Friday night when he performs at the Oakdale Theatre. Feb. 12 is the night after the charismatic baritone turns 21 in Boston. "But I don't drink," Ginoble said during a telephone interview from Sicily. "I know turning 21 is a big deal and most people party, but that's not me....