Andarsene sognando di Eugenio Marino - Book presentation
Join us for a wonderful afternoon as author Eugenio Marino discusses his book, "Andarsene sognando, L'emigrazione nella canzone italiana" Introduction by Adolfo Gatti, Segretario PD Boston. Sen. Renato Turano and Nicola Orichuia, founder of Bostoniano Magazine will join the author in the panel discussion. Saturday, June 6 -&nb...
Avon UNICO Citizen of the Year Named
by Tim Jensen The Avon Chapter of UNICO is honored to announce that the 2015 Avon UNICO Citizen of the Year Award recipient is William (Bill) J. Newman, Past Commander of the Gildo T. Consolini VFW Post #3272. UNICO will present its 18th annual award at Avon Day, Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 1:00 p.m., on the grounds between Pine G...
Now It's the North End Losing Its Ethnic Something-Something
Earlier this week it was the news that Chinatown is losing its "China," with all the attendant hand-wringing over what it means not only for affected residents but for Boston as a whole. Fast forward a few days and it's the North End losing its Italian-ness. Per NorthEndWaterfront: "The Order Sons of Italy, Massachusetts Grand Lodge (OSIAM...
OPTX Rhode Island's Diamante honored with Verrazzano Man of the Year award
by Pete Fontaine The Honorable John O. Pastore, 1963; Honorable Christopher Del Sesto, 1970; Honorable Albert E. DeRobbio, 1990; and Lt. Gen. Reginald A. Centracchio, 2006. Those are some of the names on a list of 52 legendary Rhode Islanders who have been honored with the Verrazzano Day Observance Committee's prestigious "Man of the Year...
Italian-American couple dies minutes apart
An Italian-American couple, who fell in love in Rome during World War II, died within an hour of each other in Stamford, Connecticut. Guiseppe and Livia Fortuna were married for 69 years, had four kids and moved to a house in Stamford's Cove neighborhood in the early 1960s. They raised their four children in the United States, and stayed in th...
The Italian American Victory Club is here to stay
by Alex Cornacchia On a recent summer night, a few kids were shooting hoops just outside the Italian American Victory Club (IAVC). Dozens of people lined the court, chatting and drinking beer, yet not a single person was watching the basketball game. Instead, all eyes were on a court about 50 feet away, where the night's real acti...
Museo Egizio: ricerca e museologia
Aperitivo Scientifico - S&T Colloquium - Evento trimestrale. Lunedi 16 novembre - 18:30 - Dante Alighieri Society - 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge Ma. Museo Egizio: ricerca e museologia - Christian Greco, Direttore del Museo Egizio di Torino. Christian Greco è un egittologo, docente universitario del corso "Egyptian fun...
Fate of cash-strapped, crumbling Mount Carmel Church appears sealed
"Gravity and a lot of prayer." That's all that's holding the facade of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church from crumbling into Mulberry Street, says Nino Giamei, a member of the parish transition committee mulling the future of the historic church. At a parish roundtable Sunday, members of Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Ann Parish continued to discuss t...
Workers Won’t Be Forgotten
The son of a garment worker found a tale of a long-forgotten strike buried in a corner of the public library, and decided more people should have access to the stories of working men and women who built New Haven. Frank Annunziato made that discovery while working on his graduate school thesis back in the late 1970s. He discovered an exten...
Della Robbia: The Greatest Family Of Italian Sculptors You’ve Never Heard Of
by Michael Levin Okay, I get it. By the time you got to Florence, on your 11-country, 12-day European tour, you were hot, tired, a little sick of museums and cathedrals, and thinking mostly about the tavernas and pure white sand beaches on the Greek islands. Dutifully, you filed by the David and Botticelli's Birth of Venus, but b...
North End’s Philip Frattaroli Considering Run for Boston City Councilor At-Large
North End business owner, resident and Neighborhood Council member, Philip Frattaroli, is seriously considering a run for Boston City Councilor At-Large. The race to follow Tom Menino as Boston's next Mayor has opened up at least two of the four City Councilor At-Large seats for new candidates with sitting councilors John Connolly and Felix Arroyo...
“That’s Amore”-Travel Posters to Love
by Michael Lewis When: June 18-September 2Where: International Poster Gallery- 205 Newbury St, Boston Wanderlust is the theme of our 21st annual Summer Show titled "That's Amore" – Travel Posters to Love." The exhibition traces the fascinating development of travel posters to Italy, the "Sunny Boot of Europe," from the rise of the railroa...