Poll: Should Christopher Columbus Park Be Renamed Tom Menino Park?
A petition has been started by Commercial Wharf resident, Michael Cohen, to rename Christopher Columbus Park after the late Mayor Tom Menino. As of this writing, the petition has over 1,000 signatures with a goal of 10,000. The petition starts: "The residents of City Of Boston and so many others mourn the passing of Tom Menino who did so m...
Spotlight on a Senior: Stephen A. Narracci
By Gail Donahue Think for a moment about how overstated sporting events, especially on the professional level, and all that surround them appear to be. There are massive crowds, cheers, jeers, screaming, injuries, controversy, and salaries equivalent to winning Powerball every year. Sports, in general, and all that goes with it do not imm...
Langone's Florist in Springfield's South End readies for reopening
By Jim Kinney South End institution Langone's Florist is getting fixed up now and will hopefully be open again in January. New operator Brian Grisel, owner of the Gilded Lilly on Wilbraham Road in Sixteen Acres and A Cut Above Florist on Memorial Drive in Chicopee, said Wednesday there was simply too much to do and too little time to...
Explorers plan June mission to Andrea Doria shipwreck
Nearly six decades after 46 people died when the Andrea Doria sank to the sea floor following a violent collision with another ocean liner south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, explorers are preparing to do what 16 people have lost their lives attempting: get a good look at the wreckage. A Washington state-based ocean exploration company is p...
Boston round table on rebuilding l’Aquila
Consul General of Boston Giuseppe Pastorelli announced a round table discussion on the reconstruction of the earthquake-devastated town of L'Aquila to be held on 21 March at MIT, where Deputy Commissioner for Culture Luciano Marchetti will join other participants.
Boston International Fine Art Show to Feature Italian and Italian-American Artists
Co-Producers Tony Fusco and Robert Four are pleased to announce the Seventeenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), to take place Thursday – Sunday, November 21-24, 2013 at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for The Arts, 539 Tremont Street in Boston's hip and historic South End. Both traditional and contemporary galleries from the...
Remembering Burlington's Little Italy
by Lynn Monty An old family recipe for making hot chocolate is just one aspect of what makes Italian heritage rich in Burlington. Never forgetting the city's displacement of neighborhoods due to urban renewal is another. Bringing to light what happened in the heart of the Queen City in the 1960s has become a Vermont Italian Club m...
IACO Names Dominic Candelieri President Emeritus
The Italian American Cultural Organization of Boston's South Shore held its annual Christmas party on Dec. 1. Held at Braintree's Grove Manor Estate, the feast was kicked off with a special tribute to organization founder Dominic Candelieri, who was named President Emeritus of the South Shore group. Read more Fonte: Bostonia...
An Evening of Poetry with Gil Fagiani
On Tuesday, July 14 at 7 p.m., Gil Fagiani will be the featured speaker for an evening of poetry at The Ferguson Library, Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch. He will read and discuss his new book of poetry Stone Walls, about growing up in the Springdale neighborhood of Stamford during the 1950s. Gil Fagiani is a poet, essayist, short sto...
Is There a Big Comeback for Federal Hill?
Federal Hill is the embodiment of Italian immigration to Rhode Island. It was the home to organized crime in New England, and it hosts some of the best restaurants in America, but the past decade has been mixed for the neighborhood. The neighborhood in the late 19th century, to early part of the 20th century, was one of the most densely populated...
Exhibition reception - Nicole Alexandra Cacchiotti
Please join us for the Opening Reception, Thursday, September 8, from 6-9 PM, at I Am Books, 189 North Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Nicole Alexandra Cacchiotti, "Scenes of Italy" Fine Art Photography Exhibit coming to I Am Books, September - October, 2016. Capturing the warmth, beauty and majesty of the Italian countryside, Cacchiotti, an in...
Sacco And Vanzetti Eighth Annual March And Rally
On Saturday, August 24th, Boston will remember the 86h anniversary of the execution of Italian anarchist immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, whose trial is widely regarded as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American history. Calling attention to the continued repression of immigrants and radicals, the Sacco and...