His heart may be in San Francisco, but Bennett returns to Worcester
Tony Bennett returns to Worcester for a sold-out show at Hanover Theatre Saturday, April 8. Having recently turned 90, he will keep a slow pace and deliver an abbreviated performance. Not. The singer, whose career spans some six-plus decades, says he has never felt better. Being on stage is right where he wants to be, and that can only mean good th...
Review: bNapoli Italian in West Springfield elevates dining to lofty levels
Located in downtown West Springfield and open since early 2016, bNapoli Italian has elevated its namesake style of dining to lofty new levels. Housed in a former copy shop and adjacent to a sister pizzeria, bNapoli is a space distinguished by its minimalist elegance. A soft-gray-dominated palette of fabrics and finishes sets off dramatic visual ele...
Have we learned anything from the closing of Our Lady of Mount Carmel?
By now, most people in our area know the story of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. After a half-century of residing next to Interstate 290 and its heavy traffic, the church began to fall apart. So church leaders made the decision to close the parish and merge with Our Lady of Loreto Church on Grafton Hill. The ensuing fight between some parishioners, past...
Parziale’s Bakery in the North End
The Parziales have been baking bread in Boston since 1907, when Giuseppe “Joe” Parziale came from Italy with his wife Anna and opened a small bakery on Charter Street. Many things in the neighborhood have changed since then, including the bakery’s address — which is now 80 Prince Street — but the Parziale family still churns out crunchy loaves of B...
Sicily Meets Jazz - Sissy Castrogiovanni 4tet
Thu, April 13, 2017. 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT - I AM Books, 189 North Street, Boston, MA 02113 Sissy Castrogiovanni 4et, feat. Andrea Beneventano. A night of fine jazz, with special guest internationally acclaimed, Sicilian pianist, Andrea Beneventano. “Italian vocalist Sissy Castrogiovanni sparked in her Panama Jaz Festival debut performance..” JAZZI...
Blues Beat: Italian blues guitarist Morbioli plays area venues
Italian blues guitarist Roberto Morbioli is taking a big tour, with multiple stops through the region. Morbioli was born in Verona. He started playing the guitar at an early age, and discovered the blues at the age of 15. He has played in some of the biggest European festivals as well as many blues spots around the U.S., including Antone’s in Austi...
Louie’s Italian Restaurant comes to Darien
Customers of Darien Social shuffled out its doors for the last time Sunday, but the space at 10 Center St. was not dormant long. On Wednesday, April 5, renovations began on the restaurant that will soon become the second Louie’s Restaurant and Bar, an Italian eatery which has been in Cos Cob since 2009. “We’ve been looking around for the better par...
Fire at Italian Center in Stamford
A fire started in the sauna at the Italian Center in Stamford early Thursday morning. When firefighters arrived heavy smoke was coming from the building and it had already been evacuated. Additional fire companies were called in to help fight the fire. Firefighters had to deal with heavy fire conditions as the fire quickly spread beyond the sauna a...
Pizzeria Verita owners to buy nearby Trattoria Delia
The owners of Pizzeria Verita on in Burlington plan to buy two adjacent restaurants on St. Paul Street, including the venerable Italian eatery Trattoria Delia, which has been in business for 24 years. The deal is expected to be completed next Monday, Verita co-owner Leslie McCrorey Wells told the Burlington Free Press. The deal was first reported b...
Retired Southington language teacher honored with Unico gold medal
A longtime local Italian teacher will be honored as the 2016 Southington Unico Gold Medal of Honor recipient next month. Alphonse D’Angelo will receive the honor at the Gold Medal Award Dinner at the Aqua Turf Club on May 17. He taught at Southington High School for more than 30 years and helped start the school’s Italian-language program. “I certa...
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza Opens First Rhode Island Restaurant in Cranston
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, the fast-growing South Florida-based concept that uses authentic old world, coal-burning ovens to create “well done” pizza, opened its first Rhode Island location today in Cranston. The restaurant is located in Garden City Center at 220 Hillside Road. Since its inception in the early 2000s, Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza has...
Botticelli and the Search for the Divine
Perhaps more than any other painter, Sandro Botticelli (about 1445–1510) exemplifies the artistic achievement of Renaissance Florence in the 15th century. “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine,” organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary and Italy’s Metamorfosi Associazione Culturale, explores the dramatic change...