Ten milestone moments on Geno Auriemma's path to 1,000 victories at UConn
Before UConn hired a little-known Italian-born coach with a wry sense of humor and an insatiable work ethic, the school’s women’s basketball program had only produced one winning season in 11 years. Geno Auriemma has since guided the Huskies to 29 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, 18 Final Fours, 11 national championships and six undefeated...
Vincent Pastore, of ‘The Sopranos,’ at Treehouse Comedy Club in Westport
Vincent Pastore, best known as Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero from HBO’s “The Sopranos,” will be the special guest when comedians Tony Liberati and Goumba Johnny perform at The Treehouse Comedy Club at the Westport Inn on Saturday, Dec. 30. The show is a combination of stand-up and audience participation, where guests will have the chance to act...
Dancing Queen: SHU Sophomore A Contender On Italian TV Talent Show
It’s safe to say Lauren Celentano has got talent and she thinks she can dance. That’s why the Sacred Heart University sophomore has spent the last several weeks competing as the first American on “Amici,” Italy’s answer to “American Idol.” In fact, the Cheshire resident, a member of SHU’s Dance Company, is currently #1 in the voter popularity in th...
Larry Lucchino in Worcester once more as PawSox talks continue
They came, they met, they left. What they talked about only they know for now. But Pawtucket Red Sox Chairman Larry Lucchino certainly appeared to be in a good mood as he made his way from the Levi Lincoln Room in City Hall to the elevator a little after 1 p.m. Friday. Lucchino, accompanied by two men he did not identify, was in Worcester for what...
Award-winning Italian Tenor Michéal Castaldo and Friends to Perform "Italian Christmas Concert in Town Plot"
"Italian Christmas Concert in Town Plot" a traditional Italian Christmas concert featuring award-winning Italian tenor Micheal Castaldo and friends will take place on Sunday December 17, 2017 at 3:00p.m. at Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Church - 785 Highland Ave. Waterbury CT 06708. This concert is a fundraiser for Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Church - Wate...
Three Tenors Christmas Concert Comes to Jaffrey's RST This Week
The globally beloved Italian operatic trio, The Three Tenors, star this weekend in their holiday special event THE THREE TENORS CHRISTMAS CONCERT at Jaffrey's River Street Theatre (RST). The high definition filmed concert performance will be shown Thursday through Saturday, December 7-9 at 7pm plus a 2pm matinee on Saturday and Sunday, December 9 a...
The Secret to a Long Life Is Bocce
“Against the ball, put the laser against the ball, kid! Madone.” I was folded over on one knee at Boston’s North End bocce courts, trying to get the guys a measurement. Eyeing the distance between a bocce ball and a pallino often doesn’t work, so Sammy Viscione comes armed with both a tape and a laser measure, though his sciatica makes it impossibl...
Chelmsford’s Sal Lupoli proud of football, family success
It’s with equal portions of anticipation and dread that Sal Lupoli approaches his final downs as a Chelmsford Lion. The two-way standout knows all too well a football odyssey that started when he was 7 filling water bottles and dragging tackling dummies on to the practice field under the watchful eye of his father, longtime Chelmsford defensive lin...
Boxe, il toscano Turchi negli USA per combattere con Williams
Venerdì 1 dicembre ci sarà l’atteso debutto del pugile italiano Fabio Turchi negli Stati Uniti. Lo sfidante sarà l’americano Mitch Williams, mentre il teatro del match sarà lo Strand Ballroom & Theatre di Providence, nello stato di Rhode Island. Il combattimento rientra all’interno del Real Deal Championship Boxing V, evento organizzato dall’ex cam...
Social Club Set New Bocce Playing Record
An Italian-American social club in Connecticut has set a new Guinness world record for the longest stretch of playing bocce. Members of the Prince Thomas of Savoy Club in Avon announced on its Facebook Thursday that Guinness World Records had officially confirmed the new record. The London-based organization's website now shows the record official...
Malden Musings: Bocce, predictions and memorials
The phrase “Fall Classic” has only one real meaning for Maldonians in October of 2017 — “you are correct sir,” I’m talking about the Italian American Citizen’s Club Annual Bocce Championship Series Finals. This year it took Pete “Boss Of The Bocce Court” Robinson and his band of merry men five games to put this barn burner of a series to sleep for...
5 questions for Tony Danza before his Springfield performance
You’ve known him as a not-so-lucky boxer on television’s “Taxi” and later as a live-in housekeeper on the long-running ABC sitcom “Who’s the Boss?” Now, Tony Danza is stepping it up as a song and dance man in “Standards & Stories,” coming to CityStage on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. As the title suggests, Danza will share stories from his life and perform a s...