Andiamo Restaurant + Bar prides itself on offering affordable Italian dishes made with high-quality ingredients.   The restaurant is the latest to join the lineup of businesses at Chelmsford Town Center on Boston Road, the former Stop & Shop plaza developed by Winstanley Enterprises LLC.   Read more   Source: http://ww...

The streets of East Cambridge and East Somerville will come alive for the 89th annual Italian Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12 and 13, on Warren Street in East Cambridge. There will be a food festival, parades, amusement rides, meatball and cannoli eating contests, "Frozen" and "Monsters Inc." movie characters, ca...

North End Branch of the Boston Public Library - 25 Parmenter Street - Boston, MA 02113Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 6:30 – 7:30pm   The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, Boston's version of Pompeii, surely ranks as one of the city's worst disasters. Though the disaster was blamed at first on Italian anarchists, it was in fact the tank co...

Pazzi Lazzi will conclude its very productive winter/spring tour with an outdoor festival in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Performing its original scenario "The Lady of the Rings," the event will take place within the Ethnic Heritage Festival this Sunday, May 10, at 4 p.m. The event is free and great for families. The day's calendar of e...

Laura Gentile, Hampden County clerk of courts, was honored recently by Springfield UNICO as its 2013 Person of the Year.   It is the first time in the 44-year history of the Springfield chapter of the Italian-American organization that it has selected a woman as its Person of the Year. The event was held at the Storrowton Carriage House. &n...

Springfield - The Italian Cultural Center of Western Mass., Inc. is offering scholarships to high school seniors that are pursuing higher education.   Italian Cultural Center Scholarship applications are available on its website at www.iccwm.org along with additional information on its scholarship program. The application deadline is Wednesd...

August 23 marks an important anniversary in the history of Massachusetts. It was on this day, in 1927, that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed after being convicted for the death of two people during an armed robbery in South Braintree.   I'm not bringing up this symbolic date to shine a light on the history of what happened....

Every year on the last weekend in August, Boston's North End celebrates the feast of Saint Anthony of Padua. The traditional event dates back to the early 20th century, when large numbers of southern Italians immigrated to the United States, settling in the urban centers of the North-East.   In Boston, they gathered in the North End neighbor...

Longtime Red Sox publicist Dick Bresciani died Saturday after a long illness. He was 76. Bresciani had been a Red Sox publicist since 1972 and was previously assistant sports information director at the University of Massachusetts for 11 years.   He also served as the Cape Cod League's top statistician from 1967-71. Bresciani eventually too...

After a successful first year, the Italian Festa returns to the Waltham Common on Saturday, May 30. The family-oriented event, presented by the Regina Margherita Di Savoia Mixed Lodge #1094 of the Order Sons of Italy in America, runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Festa drew about 6,000 people in 2014 and featured food and craft vendors and l...