Two Opera Companies Gear Up for Rossini (2)
by Amy Lilly Vermont's hills are alive with slowly building Rossini crescendos. As it happens, the state's two established summer opera destinations — the Opera Company of Middlebury and the Waitsfield-based Green Mountain Opera Festival — will both produce comic operas this season by that master of musical hilarity, Gioachino Rossini. &n...
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...
North Shore Family Competes in First-Ever Family Episode of ‘Chopped’
by Emily Wright Food is life for the Martone family. From cooking together in their home's kitchens (plural), to running a pair of Boston-area restaurants, parents Geraldine and Raffaele and children Rosie and John bond and over all things culinary. When the Food Network approached the Saugus clan to be on a Dec. 23 episode of "Ch...
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...
Adjunct faculty, Italian - Fairfield University
Job Description: The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fairfield University invites applications for a part-time faculty member to teach one section of Elementary Italian beginning fall 2016. The course meets on MWR from 8:00 am - 8:50 am. Requirements:• Applicants are expected to have a minimum of MA in Italian or related...
More than just a fizzy red, Italian Lambrusco is inspiring
By Ellen Bhang A special bottle can change your life. Just ask Matt Mollo, co-owner of the North End wine shop The Wine Bottega. That head-turning pour for Mollo was a fizzy red lambrusco, which he had in Italy in 2010. He and his wife, Adriana, were at a salumeria in Mantova, Lombardy, across the Po River from Emilia-Romagna, the region most asso...
MarineMax hosts Azimut Yachts Gala in Newport, RI
MarineMax Inc. (NYSE: HZO), the world's largest recreational boat and yacht retailer, partnered with Azimut Yachts to host the 2013 Newport Azimut Gala, at the Newport Harbor Hotel. The event brought together more than 150 MarineMax and Azimut owners in the prestigious setting of Newport, RI, and was a grand celebration of yachts and fine customer...
Worcester bocce league shapes a season
By Steven H. Foskett Jr. WORCESTER — Once the sun went behind the community center of Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Ann Church, summer's last gasp of heat let go, and the evening quickly pivoted from oppressive to warm and comfortable on the bocce courts across the parking lot. Bocce seemed custom-made for nights like that. Neither the peo...
Scholarship Information For Lodges and Donors
The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts makes a committment every year to assist graduating high-school seniors with their plans to continue their education in four-year degree-granting programs. With the rising costs of tuition and the limits of financial aid, the Scholarship Commission (through the Charitable and Educational Trust of the Grand...
Neapolitan Youth Takes Part in Second Annual PIB Sailing Contest
For the second year in a row, Professionisti Italiani a Boston has partnered with Italian sailing powerhouse Mascalzone Latino to give teenagers from underprivileged neighborhoods in Naples the chance to sail on the Charles River. Guided by instructor Antonio Dell'Omo Beneduce, Salvatore Pistone and Laura Canzanella — both 13 — took part in severa...