Cooking school at Tuscan kitchen
Customers have dined at the award-winning Tuscan Kitchen restaurant (recently featured on the Food Network) and have sampled and shopped their way through Tuscan Market, the newest artisanal marketplace in New England which opened October 2012.
The intimate letters of Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo - January 10, 2015 at 2:00 pm
On Saturday, Jan. 10, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will hold the final lecture in a series of collection conversations to complement the "Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy" exhibition. This half-hour gallery discussion, led by Carmen Bambach and Ramie Targoff, will explore one of the works...
Victoria Pace named Stonehill College Foreign Languages Department’s 2015 Outstanding Student in Italian
by Nicola Orichuia In recognition of outstanding academic achievement, Victoria Pace '15 has been named the Stonehill College Foreign Languages Department's 2015 Outstanding Student in Italian. Pace, a psychology major with a minor in Italian studies from Everett, Massachusetts, has demonstrated a commitment to scholarship t...
NeMLA 2016 CFP: New Perspectives on the Italian canzone d’autore and Popular Music
Critical studies on the Italian canzone d'autore and popular music are becoming numerous, often intertwining society, music and poetry. Please, consider submitting an abstract for the next NeMLA Annual Convention, held from March 17 to 20, 2016 in Hartford, CT, for the panel: "New Perspectives on the Italian canzone d'autore and Popular Music." &n...
Brockton's Sons of Italy Lodge to host line-dancing event Saturday
Local residents can put on their dancing shoes for a line-dancing event at the historic War Memorial Building on Saturday. The event, sponsored by the Sons of Italy Christopher Columbus Lodge No. 216 of Brockton, will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the War Memorial Building, 156 West Elm St. Lestyn of Lestyn dance studio will teach pa...
Newport Restaurant Group to Welcome ‘Avvio Ristorante’ in Former Papa Razzi Location in Cranston
Newport Restaurant Group, a division of Newport Harbor Corporation, an employee-owned hospitality company, is pleased to announce Avvio, a new restaurant in the former Papa Razzi space in Garden City, Cranston. Avvio will join the Newport Restaurant Group collection as the ninth location in Rhode Island and will embody the essence of every...
Homegrown verismo
George Scigliano was the first Italian American elected to public office in Boston. His story was brought to life by Steven Puleo in "The Boston Italians." As Puleo notes, Scigliano fought hard to end the exploitation of Italian immigrants through the corrupt padrone system. His death inspired the unsuccessful effort by James Donnaruma to...
Graduation Congratulations to Christina Pellino
Frank Pellino, chef/owner of Pellino's Ristorante on Prince Street in the North End, shares a proud moment with his daughter, Christina Pellino, as she graduates from Seton Hall University School of Law. While in law school, Christina was Vice President of the Italian-American Society, President of the Tax Law Society, and a Comments Edito...
West Springfield UNICO to celebrate 50th Anniversary with Gala
West Springfield UNICO was formed 50 years ago in 1966. To commemorate the milestone, West Springfield UNICO will host a 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Storrowton Carriage House in West Springfield, Massachusetts on Friday, October 14, 2016. Dinner will be served at 7:00 PM, preceded by a social hour and hors doeurves beginning at 6:00 PM. Mus...
Chianti's Is the Kind of Italian Restaurant We All Know and Love
A few months ago I wrote about how Italian restaurants in Rhode Island are a dime a dozen – abundant and inexpensive – with almost every community in the state having at least one, if not more, Italian spots. In East Greenwich there are a few and sort of smack in the middle of some suburban streets lies Chianti's, happily fulfilling the ro...
From Italy to New Haven and beyond: Generations gather annually to celebrate family
More than a century ago, Francesco Vollono left Italy and the poverty in his hometown outside Naples for a new life in America. Joined by his wife, Annunziata, and their three children in 1905, they were part of the early wave of immigrants who took up residence in Wooster Square Five generations of their descendants, led by their grandda...
Tracing Philadelphia’s Italian Architectural Heritage - October 28 | 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Enjoy a guided walking tour, with Italian Architect Francesco Sgrazzutti, through centuries of architectural evolution where the Italian archetype accompanied the evolution of Philadelphia architecture. The tour will focus on a selection of buildings from the great patrimony represented by historic Philadelphia, such as, the First Bank of...