A future for the Italian American Club
Walpole’s Jean St. George remembers pieces of her childhood being spent at the Italian American Club. She recalls the times her grandfather and father spent hanging out at the club, and can name plenty of family members, including her son, who had become members. In fact, St. George even had her wedding reception at the Italian American Club. But s...
Italian festival at LaSalette
LaSalette Shrine, says Father Flavio Gillio, is a lot more than Christmas lights. There are, for instance, various pilgrimages and festivals for the region’s Catholic ethnic groups. The Park Street shrine has played host to Portuguese, Hispanic, Cambodian and Vietnamese events over the years. One more ethnicity can soon be added to that group. LaSa...
Town Rotary Club honors D'Agostino
Sabato "Tino" D'Agostino has been honored by the Arlington Rotary. "Congratulations, Mr. D! It is well deserved," wrote Principal Matt Janger on Tuesday, April 24. He provided the letter from the club: Dear Sabatino, It is with great pleasure that the Rotary Club of Arlington congratulates you as our 2018 recipient of our "Community Person of the Y...
L’Italia, oggi: dibattito a Boston con PIB E Dante Alighieri
L’associazione Professionisti Italiani a Boston e la Dante Alighieri del Massachusetts organizzano “The State of Italy, today”, domenica 29 aprile dalle 17.00 nella sede della Dante (41 Hampshire St – Cambridge). “Panoramica sulla situazione economica e politica del Bel Paese” il sottotitolo del dibattito aperto a chiunque “stia pensando di visitar...
Former police commissioner Robert di Grazia dies, 90
Former Boston police Commissioner Robert J. di Grazia died suddenly yesterday at his home office in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 90. Mr. di Grazia was a native of San Francisco, the son of immigrants from the Tuscany region of Italy. He was a graduate of Galileo High School in San Francisco and later graduated from Boston College with a bachelor’s degre...
Domenico Starnone at I AM Books - April 25
JOIN US at I AM Books - 189 North St., Boston MA 02113. One of Italy's most prominent writers, Domenico Starnone, will visit I AM Books at 12:30 p.m. on April 25 for a signing of his new novel. Trick is a gripping, wry, brilliantly devised drama, “an extremely playful literary composition,” as Jhumpa Lahiri describes it in her introduction, about a...
Anna Capuano marks 100 years of family, fun and fulfillment
One summer afternoon when she was young, Anna Capuano strolled along the Seaside Park boardwalk in Bridgeport with two friends. One friend had a pack of cigarettes, so the two others lit up and puffed away. They invited Capuano to do the same, but she refused. “All I had to do was smell that smoke, and I said, No thanks,” said Capuano. A lifelong d...
The Italian artisans who built Chestnut Hill
On Saturday, April 21, the Chestnut Hill Conservancy and Historical Society will give the first of three guided walking tours that highlight the Italian artisans who built Chestnut Hill. This first tour concerns the Germantown Avenue corridor in North Chestnut Hill and will concentrate on several institutional and commercial structures. These inclu...
‘I Pagliacci’ coming to Clinton April 20-21
Opera Theater of Connecticut presents two performances of the powerful opera “I Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Performances will be held April 20-21 at Andrews Memorial Town Hall in Clinton. A mainstay of the dynamic “verismo” repertoire, this commanding work contains pieces such as the memorable Bell Chorus, the melodic Intermezzo, and, of cou...
Milford family hosts Italian student
The Leitz family from rural Milford — Rhonda and Charles — are hosting a foreign exchange student this school semester. Lorenzo Argentero is 17 and from Sardinia, Italy, and had never seen snow before, and it’s his first time out of Europe. He arrived in a snowstorm Dec. 29, 2017, after his flight from Chicago to Indianapolis had been delayed sever...
Habitat's annual Café Italia set for April 21
Habitat for Humanity of Waldo County will once again transform the Shrine Club on Northport Avenue into an Italian bistro Saturday, April 21, for an evening of dining, games, a wine auction, and five drawings to win baskets of delights from area businesses. Event sponsors are Jam Brook Builders and Penobscot Bay Dentistry. The event begins at 5 p.m...
Sicilian Folk Dance Workshop With Michela Musolino
When: Saturday, April 28th (1:00PM–2:30pm) - Where: The Rhody Center for World Music and Dance, 410 Tiogue Avenue, Coventry, Rhode Island 02816 Michela Musolino of Terra Sangue Mare is offering a workshop on Sicilian folk dances. To open up the class, Musolino will share with students a brief history of the dances and run through a warm-up with the...