Close

Singers Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble were discovered when the three singers appeared individually on Italy's televised singing competition – "Ti lascio una canzone." The show's creator/producer Roberto Cenci had the lads perform as a trio during the program's fourth episode, thus launching the group's career. Now Il Vol...

2615

by James Pasto   On Oct. 26, I had the honor and pleasure of leading a group of about 40 Italians and other Europeans on a tour of the North End. Most had visited the North End before, but they knew little about its past, either as a historical section of Boston or as an Italian-American neighborhood. I lead the tour at the request of Andre...

935

Innovation in America has always been synonymous with Silicon Valley, but recently Harvard surpassed the legendary Californian area regarding the biotech industry: indeed, thanks to a new huge campus dedicated to entrepreneurship that will rival that of MIT, the Boston/Cambridge area is likely to become the main center of attraction of investments...

6385

Sunday, October 25 | 5:00pm | Dante Alighieri Society | 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge: Parlare con la Musica e il proprio Corpo - Petra Conti Interview. Stefano Marchese interviews Petra Conti, first ballerina at the Boston Ballet, with screening of video clips. Petra Conti graduated from the National Academy of Dance in Rome in 200...

1212

For the millions of U.S. fans who fell in love with the astonishing talent of IL VOLO following their show stopping PBS Special "Il Volo Takes Flight," or as special guests of Barbra Streisand's fall 2012 tour, the boys will return to North America for a series of 17 concerts.   The Live Nation produced tour kicks off August 25 at the Orpheu...

1769

For decades, Boston has been the home of talented musicians thanks to institutions like the Berklee College of Music. Now it will also be the home of the Sounds of Italy Festival.Spearheaded by artistic director Stefano Marchese, the festival will take place over the next several months. Its aim, says the Pescara native, is to "promote Italian and...

931

by Marian White   If you haven't eaten at the North End restaurant Davide, you may have spotted it on Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares back in 2011. But after 21 years, the Italian restaurant, located on Commercial Street, announced on Facebook that it will be closing its doors "in a few weeks."   Boston Restaurant Talk reports that...

1232

June 5, 2015 - Friday 5:00 PMBoston Museum Of Fine Arts - 465 Huntington Avenue - Boston, Massachusetts Inspired by the newly installed exhibition Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty, The Teen Arts Council presents Una Notte in Firenze (A Night in Florence); an event influence by the cultural richness of the Renaissance eera in...

1135

by Michael Lewis   When: August 2-4 - Where: Hanover St.Each Year for the past 98 years this group of devoted people come together to renew their faith in Saint Agrippina in Boston's North End, as was the custom in the land of origin, Mineo, Sicily. Each year everyone is invited to witness the respect and honor that is bestowed on this...

1666

By Megan Woolhouse Massachusetts has its share of peacoat industry contractors, but none like this. By the end of the month, Sterlingwear Boston will have stitched about 40,000 peacoats this year for the Navy at the company's East Boston factory, where scores of workers sit at rows of sewing machines on a cement factory floor nearly the size of a...

1091