Don't ask how the sausage is made, the old saying goes, but at Tony's Market in Roslindale, chances are you'll like the answer. Every Thursday and sometimes on Wednesdays, owner Antonio DeBenedictis can be found at the back counter, wielding a curved butcher knife to trim up to 300 pounds of pork butt. Read more Source:&n...
READ MOREThe North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) is very excited for their Children's Choir debut with the Landmarks Orchestra next Wednesday evening at the Hatch Shell! Italian Night is scheduled for next Wednesday, August 5th at 7:00 p.m. This is NEMPAC's first program in partnership with the Landmarks Orchestra. The NEMPAC Chil...
READ MORECari Connazionali, desidero innanzitutto farVi i migliori auguri per un 2014 pieno di gioia e L'anno che si e' appena chiuso e' stato eccezionale, grazie all'iniziativa "2013, Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti". Ben trentacinque le manifestazioni organizzate a Boston, Providence ed altre località del New England, in cui si e' d...
READ MOREWhen: May 7 and May 8 — 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Where: Boston City Hall — 1 City Hall Square, Boston, MABarrique – The Third Life of Wood is collaboration between San Patrignano, an Italian non-profit, and over thirty of the world's leading designers and architects to create high-end furniture and décor using aged European wine barrels. The mission is to t...
READ MOREStar Market is coming to town as part of the Boston Garden project and the team is reaching out to various neighborhood groups, most recently to the ITAM Post 8 and Friends of the North End Bocce League. "As part of Shaw's and Star Market's longstanding ties to local communities for more than 150 years, the company on May 18th was pleased...
READ MOREJames Ring, author of the 5-star terrorist thriller Necessary Assets, has shifted genres with his second book, 784 Broadway, where he brings to life his immigrant Italian heritage by recounting summer visits to his family's small greengrocer store in New York's Hudson Valley. Ring's stories, rich with humor and wisdom, span nearly three decade...
READ MOREWhen: January 17-18-19 — 8 p.m. Where: Boston Symphony Hall — 301 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA [map] For tickets, please visit www.bso.org. To mark the bicentennial of Verdi's birth in 1813, Italian conductor Daniele Gatti, music director of the Orchestre National de France, leads the BSO in three performances of the composer's Requiem with t...
READ MOREGood news, folks! A new Boston gelato shop is opening just in time for spring. Amorino, a luxurious European cafe and gelato shop, is set to debut its first Boston-area location this Thursday at 7:30 a.m. And, per a release, guests can experience a "special discovery period" that day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with complimentary gelato. The up...
READ MOREOver one hundred young musicians from the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras' (BYSO) premier orchestra, Boston Youth Symphony (BYS) will bring to life one of the most popular operas ever written – Puccini's Tosca. A melodrama in three acts, Tosca is an opera filled with lies, lust and corruption that turns a tale of love into a struggle for survival...
READ MOREby Rachel Leah Blumenthal Union Bar & Grille, part of the Aquitaine Group, closed at the end of 2014 after more than a decade at 1357 Washington St., but the Aquitaine Group promised to open something new in the space in 2015. Today, the company has announced details for the new concept, La Motta's Italian Specialties, which will open...
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