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When: February 20, 2015Where: Scullers Jazz Club – Doubletree Suites by Hilton Hotel Boston – Cambridge, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, MA Hammond B3 player Joey DeFrancesco was a child prodigy and was one of the two youngest musicians to work with Miles Davis. Today, he is one of the most in-demand B3 players carrying on the great tradition of...

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The Italian Festival, absent from Worcester for several years, is set to return Aug. 21-23 to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel/St. Ann Parish. Proceeds from the three-day festival will be used to support the parish to pay for renovation and repair of the church, according to Jonelle Garofoli, vice chair of the Italian Festival Committee. Masses are at...

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The first bionic hand to let amputees physically "feel" what they are touching will be transplanted onto a human later this year. An Italian man who lost the lower section of his arm in an accident will have the hand attached, via electrodes clipped on to two of his main nerves, directly to his nervous system. Scientists say this should let him c...

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By Corby Kummer   Boston has certainly never had a dearth of Italian restaurants. There are the North End red-sauce joints, of course, which are mostly Italian-American, and a handful of chef-owned places that happily offer inspired takes on the standards—Coppa, La Morra, and Il Casale. But there haven't been many restaurants offering much i...

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by Lisa Cappuccio When: July 8, 2013 – July 19, 2013Times: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noonWhere: Eliot Innovation School — 16 Charter Street, Boston, MA C.A.S.IT. Inc. (Centro Attività Scolastiche Italiane), in cooperation with the Office of the Education Director of the Italian Consulate is proud to sponsor its first Full Immersion Italian Summer Camp fo...

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Rafforzare e consolidare ulteriormente la già proficua collaborazione tra Italia e Stati Uniti, puntando su importanti dossier di carattere economico-industriale e socio-culturale. Sono questi i principali obiettivi della missione che il Ministro dello Sviluppo Economico,Flavio Zanonato, effettuerà negli Usa da venerdì 7 a lunedì 10 giugno.La prima...

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by Maria Teresa Cometto   We had a great fireside chat about Startups and innovative entrepreneurs, last night at the Dudley House at Harvard. The Harvard Italian Society and MITaly organized a presentation of "Tech and the City" that kicked-off the "Italian startup week" in the two campuses.   It was the occasion for a very interesti...

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by Matt Conti   I Am Books, the country's first Italian American bookstore, opened this week in Boston's North End at 189 North Street across from the Paul Revere House. Owner Nicola Orichuia and partner Jim Pinzino want the bookstore to serve as a cultural hub for locals and visitors interested in diving into the rich world of Italian...

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Il Politecnico di Torino e il Mit di Boston hanno sviluppato un'interfaccia indossabile che potrà trovare applicazioni nell'industria, nella medicina e nella realtà virtuale. Il controller riesce ad autoalimentarsi grazie all'energia elettrica generata dal movimento delle dita e i componenti tecnologici sono integrati nel suo supporto tessile. &nb...

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On Saturday, Jan. 10, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will hold the final lecture in a series of collection conversations to complement the "Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy" exhibition.   This half-hour gallery discussion, led by Carmen Bambach and Ramie Targoff, will explore one of the works...

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