Daniel Franzese Will Appear in the World Premiere Comedy ITALIAN MOM LOVES YOU! At Seven Angels
Seven Angels Theatre announced today the world premiere of Italian Mom Loves You!, a comedy co-written and starring film, television and stage actor Daniel Franzese. This solo tour de force will run at the theatre, located at 1 Plank Road in Waterbury, CT, from August 12 through 21. Italian Mom Loves You! is co-written by Franzese and Connecticut-b...
Bellator’s brash Danny Sabatello is MMA’s ‘Italian Gangster’
To friends and family growing up, Danny Sabatello was “The Italian Stallion.” No mystery there: His roots trace back to Palermo, Sicily, and he loves the “Rocky” movies. But that was then, back before the former Division I wrestler began to build his own fighting legacy — and not a fictional one like Sylvester Stallone’s iconic character. He needed...
Harvard Film Archive screens retrospective 'The Complete Federico Fellini'
As part of our local repertory theaters’ conspiracy to keep me from spending any time outdoors this summer, over the next three months the Harvard Film Archive will be screening “The Complete Federico Fellini,” a comprehensive retrospective of the Italian cinema legend’s entire filmography, which contains more masterpieces than I can count on one h...
Carmen Marsico & Zafarán: Music from the Mediterranean
When: Sun, June 26, 2022 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EDT - Where: I AM Books, 124 Salem Street, Boston, MA 02113 - What: CARMEN MARSICO & ZAFARÁN explore music from the Mediterranean with a focus on the region of Basilicata as well as Gypsy migration patterns. Award winning Italian vocalist, songwriter and dancer Carmen Marsico hails from the mountaino...
Elisa Speranza - The Italian Prisoner, Book Talk
When: Thu, June 2, 2022 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT - Where: I AM Books, 124 Salem Street, Boston, MA 02113 The Italian Prisoner is an engrossing tale of wartime love, family secrets, and a young woman’s struggle to chart her own course at an inflection point in American history. This debut work of inspired by a true but little-known story involvin...
Damariscotta’s Peace Gallery to host author Elisa M. Speranza: The Italian Prisoner
The Peace Gallery, in Damariscotta, will host a reading and conversation with Elisa M. Speranza, author of the new novel The Italian Prisoner, Sunday, May 29, 2022, from 2 - 4 p.m. Ron Capps, author and director of the Veterans Writing Project, will interview Speranza about the book and the little known history at the heart of her novel. A work of...
Alifano, Rizzo Lead Baseball in NE10 All-Conference Voting
On Wednesday, the Adelphi University baseball team learned that it had a pair of headliners on the 2022 NE10 All-Conference Team. Matt Alifano followed up last season's Southwest Division Rookie Hitter of the Year honor with an NE10 Southwest Division Player of the Year nod in 2022. Meanwhile, John Rizzo was named the NE10 Southwest Division Rookie...
Gino Cappelletti, long-time Patriot player and announcer, dies at 89
Gino Cappelletti, a former AFL Most Valuable Player and original member of the Boston Patriots who was part of the franchise for five decades as a player, coach and broadcaster, has died. He was 89. Cappelletti died Thursday at his home in Wellesley, Massachusetts. His death was announced by the New England Patriots on Thursday. No cause of death w...
Mattatuck Museum Highlights Italian-American Immigrants From Waterbury in New Showcase
Damn Mattatuck Museum, you are shooting through my heart with one of your latest exhibits. I am of Italian-American descent. My great-grandmother and great grandfather were both born in Avellino, Italy and immigrated to Waterbury, Connecticut around 1900. There's a new exhibit - The Immigrant Suitcase Project: Italians of Waterbury on view in the H...
Comedian Vic DiBitetto set to return to the Greenwich Odeum
He might refer to himself as “The Donkey of Comedy” or “The Working Class Zero”, but the fact is that Vic Dibitetto is one of the funniest people on the internet. The Brooklyn native has an incredible digital audience of over a million followers on social media along with over 400,000 subscribers to his Youtube channel. After logging on, you can ch...
Andrea Bocelli to perform at Bridgeport’s Total Mortgage Arena in December
The Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport was the site of the 2022 Bridgeport Regional arm of the NCAA women’s basketball Sweet 16 and Elite Eight tournaments this past March. But at the end of the year, the arena will be filled, not with basketball fans, but opera fans. Italian opera star Andrea Bocelli is scheduled to perform. The tenor will be stop...
People of all ages coming together to play bocce in West Springfield
In West Springfield, people of all ages are coming together to play the sport of bocce. At the Dante Club in West Springfield, teams are set and the balls are rolling. The group is playing bocce, an Italian ball sport. “We’ve been playing since the 90s here, when we built the indoor bocce court, and we have anywhere between eight and 12 teams,” sai...