The 2024 Connecticut Italian Festival Season is Heating Up
The Summer of 2024 is underway, can you smell the fried dough yet? It's a little early in the season for harvest festivals, but the 2024 Italian Festival scene is heating up. Here a list of the upcoming Italian festivals scheduled around Connecticut this year. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on Highland Avenue in Waterbury will get things started with their...
Coastal Italian Cuisine Inspires a New Haverhill Eatery
Bosa, you should know, is a small fishing village on the island of Sardinia. To get there from here, you take a flight to Rome, hop a one-hour flight to Alghero along the western coast, and drive south an hour farther. There, you’ll find the familiar cerulean blues of the Mediterranean, alongside some of the island’s freshest seafood. But you don’t...
XXIV edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World
Dear teachers and colleagues, the XXIV edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World (SLIM), scheduled for October 14-20, is approaching and we are pleased to announce the release of the new contest dedicated to students of Italian in the New England consular district. The SLIM 2024 theme is “Italian and the Book: the world between the l...
Anna Mondardo at Left Bank Books for Author Talk & Signing
Left Bank Books invites the public to a free talk and book signing by writer and university professor Anna Monardo on Tuesday, July 9, at 6:30 pm. Her recently released memoir, After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage, tells the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Itali...
Don't be quiet! It's time to shout 'Viva St. Pietro!' again
This week, the joyous cries of “Viva San Pietro!” will ring out through St. Peter’s Square in Gloucester (MA) and beyond for the 97th annual St. Peter’s Fiesta, an expression of faith, family and fun sponsored by the city’s Italian-American fishing community since 1927. The five-day celebration highlighting the diverse heritage, history and traditi...
“What Once Was Promised” by Louis Trubiano is released, a work of historical fiction that follows the trials and triumphs of an Italian immigrant family in 20th century Boston
“What Once Was Promised” by Louis Trubiano has been released worldwide. This 257-page novel tells the story of a multigenerational Italian family as they navigate the turmoil and quickly changing landscape of Boston, Massachusetts. Following three young Italian immigrants and one American-born Italian, the novel traces their diverging paths from se...
Cingari Family Markets Unveils 2 Remodeled Stores In Stamford
Cingari Family Markets, the family-owned and operated Connecticut-based company, unveilled two remodeled stores in Stamford this week — the ShopRite of Commerce Street, and Grade A Market on Newfield Avenue. Located at 1990 W. Main St., the ShopRite of Commerce Street reopened on June 17 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The remodeled supermarket has...
Vermont Italian Cultural Association (VICA) announces 2024 grant recipients
Puccini workshops at Vermont public schools; a concert of Italian arias and songs; and a first-hand report from Florence, Italy’s Medici Archive Project are the ways in which the three 2024 recipients of VICA’s Scholarships and Grants program will promote Italian culture in Vermont. “Each year we are impressed by the passion and talent of the appli...
Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca has two championship teams
It will be Pagliuca’s second parade in a month. His Atalanta won the team’s first Europa League title in more than half a century in May. While Europe may not be as prestigious as the Champions League, Atalanta stunned the football world with its Goliath-slaying victories over Germany’s Bayer Leverkusen and England’s Liverpool. As co-owner and co-c...
The NBA could use more people like Joe Mazzulla
At 35 years old, Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla became the youngest NBA head coach to win a championship since Bill Russell achieved the same feat for the Celtics in 1969. The second-year head coach led the Celtics to a 64-18 regular season and a 4-1 series win over the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. Though the NBA has many problems, M...
A First Taste of Boston’s New Italian Masterpiece
When Raffles Boston opened to great fanfare in the Back Bay in September 2023, a few venues at the luxurious property were not quite ready for guests. La Padrona, an Italian restaurant headlined by acclaimed Boston chef Jody Adams, was one of them. But the May 2023 opening has proved worth the wait. The two-story establishment offers a dramatic set...
Zuppardi’s Apizza Celebrating 90 Years With Anniversary Event
Zuppardi’s Apizza is turning 90! The historic pizzeria, nestled in West Haven’s Union Avenue neighborhood, has been serving New Haven-style apizza, pronounced “abeetz,” since 1934. The fourth-generation business is one of the oldest family-owned pizzerias in the United States and was recently featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” according to C...