North American Premiere Tour of Italian Film Briciole Sul Mare Postponed Due to Bad Weather Conditions
The 12-city North American premiere tour of the critically acclaimed Italian comedy-drama film Briciole Sul Mare and Music Gala featuring Rock & Roll Vocal Group and Grammy Halls of Fame inductees The Platters® with special guest Italian vocalists Walter Nestola, Paola Gruppuso and Amato Scarpellino, has been postponed until spring of 2017. The...
Italian American Neighborhoods – Boston
Boston's Italian neighborhood is called the North End. It has a strong Italian flair and numerous Italian restaurants. The North End is also Boston's oldest neighborhood and it still possesses an old-world charm kept alive by its mostly Italian-American population. Since the completion of the Big Dig and the demolition of the old elevated Southeast...
CD Review: Italian vocalist, Maine flutist make beautiful music together
By Steve Feeney Italy has welcomed American jazz artists over the years, often providing musical support for them from a cadre of homegrown players. Things sort of came full circle when local jazz/world/klezmer flutist Carl Dimow met the accomplished Italian vocalist Giuppi Paone in the summer of 2012 while she was visiting a friend i...
Food & Wine Tasting for Charity
"Service Above Self" is the motto for UNICO National, the largest Italian-American service organization in the United States. Their upcoming Beer and Wine tasting will raise money for their scholarship fund. Adam Provost and John Thomas shared more. Food & Wine Tasting - Saturday, October 26th - 7:00PM to 9:00PM Basketball H...
Southington Unico to award Gold Medal to Michael Fasulo
The Southington chapter of Unico has chosen Michael Fasulo to receive its 2014 Gold Medal. Fasulo, chairman of the Board of Park Commissioners and a community volunteer, is scheduled to receive the award at the Unico's dinner May 20 at the Aqua Turf Club. "Mike is a very dedicated person in the community, very well-liked ... an outsta...
Feature Obituary: Vincent A. DiFillipo, former Portland deputy fire chief, 63
by Tom Bell Vincent "Vinny" A. DiFillipo Sr., who rose up the ranks at the Portland Fire Department and retired as deputy chief in 2010, died on Dec. 22. He was 63. He was devoted to the Fire Department, his family and his friends, said his wife, Joyce DiFillipo. "If you had him as a friend, you had him forever," she said. "He wa...
Friends of the Italian Cultural Center of Boston Announce 2016 Thomas M. Menino Awards
Friends of the Italian Cultural Center of Boston, Inc. (FICCB) today announced the recipients of the 2016 Thomas M. Menino awards. Federico Cortese, Music Director for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and Silvio Micali, MIT Ford Professor of Engineering, will receive their recognition on Saturday, Nov. 19 at Italianissimo!, FICCB's annual even...
Italian Heritage Month Kick-Off at State House
The annual kick off of Italian Heritage Month was held on October 1, 2013 at the Grand Staircase of the State House. The 2013 Italian American Month Award recipients were Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Public Service Award, and Alessandro Golkar, Rising Young Professional Award. Once again the generosity of Donato Frattaroli and the Frattaroli Fa...
Downtown Gloucester Block Party with Italian Flare
When: Saturday, September 20, 2014 – 6 to 11 p.m.Where: Downtown Gloucester, MAThis year's last block party in downtown Gloucester will feature a number of Italian artists and exhibitors. Among them, the trio behind the successful web-radio program L'Italia Chiamò: Stefano Marchese, Emanuele Capoano and Elisa Meazzini. The crew will host a live sh...
Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut by Anthony V. Riccio.
The role that immigrant and first generation Italian women played in the workforce before 1960 is not well-documented. Aside from such dramatic and tragic stories such as the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, immigrant women and their daughters have not been given sufficient credit for their role in America's factories and canneries. Less known, a...
Front Street: Hartford’s original “Little Italy”
By Brian Spyros The Front Street that exists in Hartford now is in stark contrast to what it was more than 100 years ago. "I'm a sentimentalist. I like the old style, the old times," said Paul Margolfo, who grew up in an Italian-American family not far from Front Street. He was one of many people who called the capital city home. &nb...
Italian Cultural Center scholarship recipients
by Pam Mastriano The Italian Cultural center of Western Massachusetts, Inc. will honor ten high school seniors who will receive Italian Cultural Center Scholarships on Monday, June 15, at St. Anne Country Club, 781 Shoemaker Lane in the Feeding Hills section. The Italian Cultural Center Scholarships, sponsored by ICC members, the...