Pantochino's New Musical ITALIAN WEDDING SOUP To Debut In Milford
Pantochino Productions Inc., a not-for-profit professional theatre company for family audiences, presents it's new musical, "Italian Wedding Soup" for a three-week run at the Center for the Arts in Downtown Milford beginning Friday, April 20, 7:30pm. Inspired by the memories of growing up in a large Italian-American family, the new musical follows...
Meet your neighbor... Nick DeMaio III
Nick DeMaio III, has a strong, booming voice. And though he’s from Darien, he’s got the tinge of an accent that comes from singing country music for the past 30 years. “We once went on tour with President George H.W. Bush and we also performed for President George W. Bush here in Connecticut,” said DeMaio III, 57, who was sporting a red and black f...
North Andover resident becomes Sons of Italy first woman president
Five years ago, Marguerite Sciuto, along with her husband and another couple, learned how to play bocce at the Sons of Italy lodge in Methuen. Sciuto later got involved in lodge activities, joined its board of directors, and eventually became the lodge’s vice president. And then on Jan. 1 of this year, she achieved a major feather in her cap — she...
Boston Pays Tribute to Immigrant Grandmothers
She is known as "nonna" in Italian, "abuelita" in Spanish and "Grandma" in English. But across cultures, the grandmother is the matriarch and foundation on which the family unit is built. In ethnically diverse East Boston, home to a large immigrant community, a new mural serves as a visual tribute to grandmothers and the values that residents of wh...
Una statua del Bernini in America: colpo grosso di un museo del Connecticut
Un piccolo museo universitario del Connecticut ha fatto un colpo grosso; è riuscito a portare in America una statua di Gianlorenzo Bernini che nei suoi quasi cinque secoli di vita non si era mai mossa da Roma, e a organizzarci intorno una rispettabile mostra sul Barocco romano. Philippe de Montebello, celebre ex direttore del Metropolitan Museum di...
Consolato onorario a Providence: il decreto in Gazzetta Ufficiale
È stato pubblicato in Gazzetta Ufficiale il decreto del Direttore Generale per le risorse e l'innovazione della Farnesina, Luca Sabbatucci, che eleva la sede di Providence, negli Stati Uniti, da vice consolato a consolato onorario. Il Consolato onorario, si legge nell’articolo 2 del decreto, è posto alle dipendenze del Consolato generale d'Italia i...
Controversial Leonardo work meets companion piece in Worcester Art Museum exhibit
Two paintings that showcase the work of Leonardo da Vinci used to hang side by side in an Italian chapel but they were separated a long time ago, possibly taken as plunder for Napoleon’s conquering armies. The pair will be reunited for the first time in two centuries at Worcester Art Museum for an exhibition called “The Mystery of Worcester’s Leona...
The Old North End, Part II
When I began college at UMass Boston in 1972, my love of history and human nature made me want to major in Political Science and Psychology as a dual major because of my involvement in North End politics during the late 50’s early 60’s. In those days, Joe Langone and my close friend Ernie Guarente were two mortician’s and always running for one off...
Italian-American band Primavera performs Sunday, March 11
The Trumbull Arts Commission presents Primavera on Sunday, March 11, at 1 p.m., at the Center at 23 Priscilla Place, Trumbull. Primavera is an Italian-American band from New York and New Jersey and features John Micalizzi on keyboard and vocals. The band mixes both traditional and modern Italian-American music. Cabaret seating, bring your own refre...
N.H. House Rejects Bill to Replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day
The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted down a bill Tuesday that would have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The language from the bill imagined Indigenous Peoples’ Day as “a time for New Hampshire residents to reflect on the continuing struggles of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.” The bill was sponsored by state...
MALDEN MUSINGS: Saint Rocco on my mind
Maldonians were dancing in the streets upon hearing news that the St. Rocco Society of Malden has announced the date of their 89th Anniversary St. Rocco Banquet. Joy could be found from Devir Street in Ward 2 all the way up to Beach Street in the Linden section, as families make plans to attend the annual dinner fundraiser, again being held at Anth...
Newburyport woman accepts father's World War II medals
Before Liborio Joseph Dorato died in 1994, the proud and humble World War II Navy veteran had revealed little to his family about his time in the service or how he was injured during the campaign to occupy the Marshall Islands in the winter of 1944. The Staten Island, New York, native, born to parents of Italian descent, enlisted at age 20. He serv...