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By Gail Donahue Think for a moment about how overstated sporting events, especially on the professional level, and all that surround them appear to be. There are massive crowds, cheers, jeers, screaming, injuries, controversy, and salaries equivalent to winning Powerball every year.   Sports, in general, and all that goes with it do not imm...

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On Tuesday, July 14 at 7 p.m., Gil Fagiani will be the featured speaker for an evening of poetry at The Ferguson Library, Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch. He will read and discuss his new book of poetry Stone Walls, about growing up in the Springdale neighborhood of Stamford during the 1950s.   Gil Fagiani is a poet, essayist, short sto...

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By Kenneth R. Gosselin   As the third-generation steward of D&D Market in the city's South End, Daniel D'Aprile Sr. keeps close to tradition, right down to using his grandfather's recipe for homemade sausage. But D'Aprile isn't stuck in the past.   On Thursday, the family-owned, Italian-American grocery store — founded in 193...

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By Leeanne Griffin   Andrea Meriano knew precisely how she wanted her Cannoli Food Truck to look, even borrowing her niece's crayons to sketch the exact design with hot pink and leopard-print trim. The truck's color scheme would also be reflected at her family's brick-and-mortar bakery, which was moving from Guilford to Madison.   But...

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2014 kicks off on a North American note for Gigi D'Alessio. The Italian superstar will release his 18th studio set Ora via Sony Music on February 4th, followed by the kick off of his world tour with a seven city concert run of the continent on February 7th.   One of Italy's most popular recording artists, the Naples-born D'Alessio has sold 1...

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by Ken Borsuk   On Wednesday, the focus was on food, dancing and fellowship. On Sunday, celebrants of the annual St. Roch's Feast will march through the streets of Chickahominy to honor their namesake and patron saint.   The traditional procession, led by The Society Morrese and accompanied by a brass band, will begin at St. Roch...

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by Elizabeth Keyser   The gypsy might have settled down, but after 12 years in Bethel, La Zingara Ristorante still has an adventurous spirit. Before she was a restaurateur, executive chef and owner Lisa Tassone was known to her family as La Zingara because she loved to travel.   Family background — mother born in the northwestern...

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Comparing her life as a cigar maker in New Haven to her grueling labors as a taglialegna, or lumberman, in 1930s Italy, Michelina Venditti can't help chuckling at the contrast. Venditti's remarkable account of felling trees to make charcoal is just one of many riveting oral histories collected by author Anthony Riccio for his newest book, "Farms, F...

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Join the Litchfield Historical Society on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 3 p.m. for a lecture by author Anthony Riccio, who will be discussing his new book Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut. This oral history collection offers new insights into the Italian American experience, told from the women's perspective.   In...

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di Chiara Privitera   Dalla seconda metà dell'800 alla prima metà del '900 molte famiglie melillesi emigrarono fuori dall'Italia, spossati dalla situazione di povertà che si viveva nella Sicilia di allora. Il lavoro nei campi non bastava per sopravvivere, per questo alcune famiglie decisero di partire per cercare fortuna all'estero. Nel cors...

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