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When: Tuesday, May 23 · 6 - 7:30pm EDT - Where: I AM Books 124 Salem Street Boston, MA 02113 United States The second largest Italian island and a keystone in Mediterranean history, Sardinia is known largely as the playground of the global jet-set, the Blue Zone phenomenon and bandits. Award-winning historian, journalist, travel writer Jeff Biggers...

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Iconic Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli has announced new US tour dates for November and December 2023. The run includes ten show dates in major cities across the nation, including San Antonio, Dallas, Louisville, Boston, Philadelphia, Hartford, Baltimore, with two nights in Hollywood, FL at Hard Rock Live, and a return to the iconic Madison Square Gar...

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Cavaliere Dr. Gilda Rorro was one of the honorees in Massachusetts on April 1, 2023 to receive the Pirandello Lyceum I Migliori in Mens et Gesta: The Best in Mind and Deeds, 2023 Honor Awards. Her category was as an Italian Culture Advocate, Educator, Author. Boston Magazine has called the I Migliori Award the most prestigious honor to be received...

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Readers of the Boston.com Book Club had their minds on vacation this month as we read Elin Hilderbrand’s “Hotel Nantucket” and asked the writers among you to share your own vacation stories. In the latest novel by the “queen of beach reads,” protagonist Lizbet takes on the general manager of a Nantucket Hotel burdened with construction problems and...

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Boston and the State of Massachusetts have always been fundamental in American history but also in the narrative of Italian emigration and presence in the United States. Our guest today is one of the most important figures in the Italian American community in the Bay State, where he has also been our new Ambassador for a few weeks. Tom Damigella we...

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Italian pianist Beatrice Rana has become a force in the international classical music world, receiving admiration from critics and audiences alike. As renowned for her sensitivity and musical intelligence as she is for her vivid colorations and pyrotechnics, she is a pianist who truly has it all. Beatrice Rana has performed at the world’s most este...

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Sunday Apr 9 2023 - 5:00 PM Doors / 7:00 PM Start. City Winery Boston, 80 Beverly Street, Boston, MA. Award-winning Sicilian jazz singer, songwriter, and producer Sissy Castrogiovanni presents, for the first time in Boston, her album, Terra. Fully sung in Sicilian dialect, Sissy’s compositions are an attractive synthesis of musical cultures; With a...

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Tony Danza was brought to tears while learning about the struggles his maternal grandfather endured on his journey to become a U.S. citizen during an appearance on Season Eight of the PBS show “Finding Your Roots.” While chatting with the show’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Danza explained how he always thought his grandfather, Antonino Camisa, cam...

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Tuesday, April 4 – 6 p.m. I AM Books, 124 Salem St., Boston MA 02113 (Register Here). A feature-length documentary from executive producer John Turturro on the untold story of Italian immigrants persecuted and interned as America’s “Enemy Aliens” During World War II. Potentially Dangerous won the 2021 Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum and...

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While the strength of Italian and European basketball continues to make leaps and bounds compared to the global competition, when he was growing up in the Italian town of Graffignana in the 1980s and 90s, veteran Boston Celtics forward Danilo Gallinari was not exactly awash in a sea of high-level basketball. But he has fond memories of that part of...

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