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After closing its first edition in May, Sounds of Italy Festival is gearing up for a new season. On July 20, Gennaro's 5 North Square held a benefit evening for the festival, centered on rosè wines and Italian food prepared by chef Marisa Iocco.   Fonte: Bostoniano  

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"Because it's great. It's cheese," Peter Lovis, proprietor of The Concord Cheese Shop, says as he bustles through the crowd of hundreds of people gathering in front of his Walden Street shop in the Boston suburb yesterday afternoon. "It's 400 pounds. It's humungous."   He's raving about the giant wheel of crucolo cheese—professed to be the l...

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text and photo by Nicola Orichuia Maurizio Fava, director of the Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Massimo Loda, director of the Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology at the Dana Faber Cancer Institute, and Pier Paolo Pandolfi, director of the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), have recentl...

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by Carla Balzano   Salvatore's Restaurant, which has five locations around the Greater Boston area, will be hosting its first ever "Chef's Playground." And no, it does not involve chefs playing on the monkey bars. However, it does involve chefs digging deep into their creativity to prepare delicious dishes!   There are no limitations...

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by James Pasto   I always grew up with a decorated Christmas tree. Along with the Manger, the tree seemed both a very Italian and a very Catholic thing to have in the house. The gifts were under the tree and we usually opened them on Christmas morning. I know now, but I didn't know then, that in Italy people give gifts on the eve of th...

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The series of events have been made possible thanks to the generous support of the De Bosis Foundation and Tony Crolla, Vittoria Group Edinburgh, and through synergies with the Italian Consulate General Boston, the Harvard Italian Colloquium and Chiasmi 2015. This year's event marks the Fifth Edition of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize, guided by Honorar...

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by Roberta Smith   If your admiration for Italian Renaissance painting is more culturally received than deeply felt, "Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice" at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is the show to see.   It is the first exhibition in an American museum devoted to Crivelli, a great but neglected Early Renaissanc...

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The 2006 documentary "Sacco and Vanzetti" brings to life the story of two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. Produced by Peter Miller and Editor Amy Linton, the film presents interviews with researchers and historians of the lives of Nicola Sacco a...

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by Nicola Orichuia   The Federazione Associazioni Abruzzesi-U.S.A held its 23rd anniversary Medaglia d'Oro event on Oct. 11 at Filippo Ristorante in the North End. Celebrating the best and brightest individuals with Abruzzese origins, this year's gold medal award went to researcher Annalisa Di Ruscio, a native of Sulmona, L'Aquila.  ...

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by Matt Conti   Kicking off the first summer 2013 procession in Boston's North End was the Società Santa Maria di Anzano. The Italian religious procession was held on Sunday, June 2, 2013 starting at St. Leonard Church and winding through the neighborhood streets to be honored by devotees.   The procession coincided with the Festa Naz...

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