Le energie rinnovabili saranno il nostro futuro? Molti lo pensano, altri lo sperano, altri ancora le relegano in un angolo. Taluni paesi dell'Europa invece, ci credono così arditamente che puntano tutto su di esse. Il grande vantaggio, ormai risaputo, sta nel fatto che non immettono nell'aria sostanze inquinanti, al contrario dei combustibili fossi...
READ MOREVoglia di sapori nostrani in America? Il vostro palato agogna una bella fetta di crudo o una bruschetta fatta a regola d'arte? Tutto sotto controllo, non fatevi prendere dal panico, per questi piaceri della tavola vi aspetta la Salumeria Italiana di Boston. Questo piccolo locale, stracolmo di leccornie italiane, nasce nel 1962, nella zona...
READ MOREWhen: Saturday, September 20, 2014 – 6 to 11 p.m.Where: Downtown Gloucester, MAThis year's last block party in downtown Gloucester will feature a number of Italian artists and exhibitors. Among them, the trio behind the successful web-radio program L'Italia Chiamò: Stefano Marchese, Emanuele Capoano and Elisa Meazzini. The crew will host a live sh...
READ MOREby Emily Wright Food is life for the Martone family. From cooking together in their home's kitchens (plural), to running a pair of Boston-area restaurants, parents Geraldine and Raffaele and children Rosie and John bond and over all things culinary. When the Food Network approached the Saugus clan to be on a Dec. 23 episode of "Ch...
READ MOREBy Ellen Bhang A special bottle can change your life. Just ask Matt Mollo, co-owner of the North End wine shop The Wine Bottega. That head-turning pour for Mollo was a fizzy red lambrusco, which he had in Italy in 2010. He and his wife, Adriana, were at a salumeria in Mantova, Lombardy, across the Po River from Emilia-Romagna, the region most asso...
READ MOREBy Steven H. Foskett Jr. WORCESTER — Once the sun went behind the community center of Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Ann Church, summer's last gasp of heat let go, and the evening quickly pivoted from oppressive to warm and comfortable on the bocce courts across the parking lot. Bocce seemed custom-made for nights like that. Neither the peo...
READ MOREThe Grand Lodge of Massachusetts makes a committment every year to assist graduating high-school seniors with their plans to continue their education in four-year degree-granting programs. With the rising costs of tuition and the limits of financial aid, the Scholarship Commission (through the Charitable and Educational Trust of the Grand...
READ MOREFor the second year in a row, Professionisti Italiani a Boston has partnered with Italian sailing powerhouse Mascalzone Latino to give teenagers from underprivileged neighborhoods in Naples the chance to sail on the Charles River. Guided by instructor Antonio Dell'Omo Beneduce, Salvatore Pistone and Laura Canzanella — both 13 — took part in severa...
READ MOREThe Italian American War Veterans Post 40 is holding a fundraising event during the Milford 4th of July celebration from 5-11 pm. We will be selling burgers, dogs, sausages, cotton candy, and popcorn on the post outdoor grounds. We have face painting and red white and blue glow necklaces for sale as well. All proceeds to benefit...
READ MORETwo Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were arrested in May 1920 in Brockton, Massachusetts. They were charged with murdering two guards in nearby South Braintree one month earlier, and escaping with fifteen thousand dollars in payroll cash that the guards had been delivering to a shoe factory. Sacco, a skilled worker at anot...
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