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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church celebrated the Italian ‘Saint Padre Pio’ by unveiling a new statue on Sunday. After mass, there was a procession with an Italian marching band through the streets of the South End, followed by a reception at the Italian Club on Winthrop Street. We spoke with Salvatore Circosta, president of the Springfield Sons and D...

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Delta announced an expansion of its trans-Atlantic flight schedule for the summer of 2025, introducing new routes and increasing service frequency to several European destinations from its U.S. hubs. Catania, Sicily: Delta will start daily flights from New York-JFK to Catania in May 2025. Naples, Italy: Four-times-weekly flights from Atlanta to Nap...

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Joe Castiglione, the radio voice of the Red Sox for 42 years, announced his retirement Sunday. Castiglione, who has called more than 6,500 games – including four World Series titles – has the longest play-by-play career of any announcer in franchise history, according to a statement from the Red Sox. He received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Hal...

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April 2024 500 years later: "Leonardo da Vinci and Verrazzano's Royal Discovery of New York"

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Chef and restaurateur Douglass Williams, and business partner, Seth Gerber, are opening a fourth location of their Italian restaurant, MIDA, in The Fenway neighborhood this October. The new MIDA location at 1391 Boylston St. will further build on the brand’s growing popularity. In preparation for this expansion, DW French, their French brasserie, h...

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The North End Christopher Columbus statue has now been permanently relocated to the Peace Garden at St. Leonard of Port Maurice Parish in the North End. The IAA wishes to extend a very special thank you to St. Leonard's pastor, Fr. Michael Della Penna, OFM, the Knights of Columbus, and all those involved with protecting this beautiful work of art h...

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The new American tour of Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, performing in duo with American pianist Uri Caine, begins today August 31 in Washington, with a performance at the most important jazz festival in the U.S. capital—the DC Jazz Fest. This long-standing musical partnership, celebrated by critics and always appreciated by audiences, will be prese...

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Tradition reigns at the Feast of the Three Saints even when organizers slide changes into the three-day festival, summer’s last hurrah in Lawrence, MA, the Immigrant City. Take this year, the 101st Feast, it starts on Friday, the start of the Labor Day weekend, as it always does, at City Hall’s steps with opening remarks, flags and a parade. But th...

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Lawrence, Massachusetts, was hanging on by a thread before Sal Lupoli set his sights on the city. Just a short trip north of Boston, Lawrence didn’t have much going for it after the 1930s when the textile industry folded and left dozens of large-scale mills to fall into disrepair and blight. The buildings, typically five to seven stories with 15-fo...

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For many in Cambridge – a college town – late summer heralds the return of students to the city. Families, teachers and students seek a last gasp of freedom before a return to the fall routine, and those who thrive on the warm temperatures and long days of summer coming slowly to terms with the reappearance of all things pumpkin spice. Late summer...

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