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Learn to dance tammurriate, pizzicas and tarantellas! Music by Fabio Pirozzolo – Percussion & VocalistRoberto Cassan – Accordion When: Saturday, January 31, 2015 from 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM Where: Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139    General admission – $15 Tickets can be purc...

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A few years ago, I'd experienced Saint Anthony's Feast in Boston's North End for the very first time. Growing up Italian in Buffalo, I'd enjoyed summer Italian festivals before, as they're a regular annual fixture in most American cities. But nothing could prepare me for the sights and sounds of this, the largest Italian Religious Festival in New E...

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by Liz Bomze I remember thinking that Cantabrigians had gotten a great Christmas present when Giulia opened last December. The stylish yet low-key Porter Square space came with the promise of Michael Pagliarini, former executive chef at Back Bay's higher-falutin Italian dining room Via Matta, his Umbrian roots, and his considerable pasta-making sk...

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The New England Patriots selected Jimmy Garoppolo with the 30th pick in the second round (62nd overall) during the NFL Draft on Friday.   Garoppolo, a 6-foot-2-inch, 226-pound righthanded passer played college football at Eastern Illinois. As a senior in 2013, he broke Tony Romo's school records for career passing touchdowns, yards and passi...

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Cinema and Media Studies and the Department of Italian Studies welcomes Milly Buonanno, Professor of Television Studies, Department of Communication and Social Research at La Sapienza University of Rome. This lecture examines the shifting relationship between Italian and American broadcasting, focusing on television drama.   American televis...

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After whetting Boston appetites for the past year, the famed Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana said it has finally decided to open its first local restaurant, in Chestnut Hill, this fall. Pizza-loving Bostonians — even competitors — were salivating Friday over the news about the New Haven institution’s plans to move into the area.   “I’m all fo...

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The Regina Margherita di Savoia Mixed Lodge #1094 of the Order Sons of Italy in America will again host an Italian Festa on the Waltham Common on Saturday, May 30th, from 11:00 am – 7:00 pm; rain date is Sunday, May 31st. In addition to showcasing Italian heritage, the Festa is a fundraiser for the various charities which the Order supports, such a...

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by Nicola Orichuia   Chiara Civello doesn't know how to stay still. The young Italian singer-songwriter has been traveling the world ever since the age of 18, when she took her bags and left her native Rome to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. "It's a place that has given me so much," she tells us in an exclusive interview.  ...

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This past summer, 20 students traveled to Siena, Italy, for the two week-long study abroad program "Food and Culture: The Italian Experience." The program was the first of its kind at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and it inspired Italian Studies assistant professor Vetri Nathan and chef instructor Angelo Guida to create a new course this...

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EIGHTY-SEVEN years ago, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in the state prison in Charlestown. The two men, self-avowed anarchists, had been convicted in the April 1920 robbery murder of two men at the Slater & Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree — paymaster Frederick A. Parmenter and his guard, Alessandro...

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