Tim Liston and Nick Cochran are ready to bring some changes to the dining experience in Marshfield with their years of experience preparing shrimp scampi and tiramisu and managing restaurants.   The father-son duo, along with a third partner, Adolfo Melendez of Stevens Point, own Di Lucas, the new Italian steakhouse and seafood restaurant ne...

Brelundi, a new Sicilian restaurant in Waltham, opens its doors today offering a robust assortment of street bites and dishes inspired by owner Michael Colomba’s southern Italian upbringing.   The 20-seat counter service and takeout establishment located at 16 Felton Street serves Italian breakfast, lunch, and dinner items (hence the na...

When: Sunday, February 3, 2013 — 3:30 p.m.Where: Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation — 154 Moody Street, Waltham, MA [map]Cataldo, a scholar from Venice, has been employed by the wealthy Pantalone to tutor his son Oratio... but is Pantalone getting more than he bargained for from this mysterious pedant? His once-respectable household...

Killing in the Name of Love: Representations of Violence against Women in RAI Films - Lecture by Flavia Laviosa Sunday, March 2, 2014, 7 pm - Dante Alighieri Society of MA - 41 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA 02139 - (617)876-5160   Since 2007, RAI 3 (Radiotelevisione Italiana) has broadcast Amore criminale (Criminal L...

Mucci Imports, owned by Nick Mucci, is a Boston based Italian wine importer specializing in unique Italian varietals from producers he has hand picked throughout his travels from living in Italy and developing special relationships with the winemakers. Mucci started the company in 2013, towards the end of the summer. When I first met him, he was i...

The North End-based Saint Joseph Society recently announced a $10,000 pledge to support the ongoing restoration of Saint Leonard Church on Hanover Street, in Boston's North End. "We thank the whole society and in a special way the donation committee for being so considerate toward our Parish," wrote Father Antonio Nardoianni in the parish bulletin...

Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken was out and about Friday with a group of Sicilian singers and members of Gloucester's Italian-American community. Stops around the city including Caffe Sicilia — a picture of which was seen on her official Twitter account — and the Cape Ann museum.   There, Museum Executive Director Ronda Faloon said, the mayor led...

The Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation, in conjunction with the Italian Science Writers Association (UGIS), offers a Science Writers Fellowship Program for young Italian science writers working in Italy. Each year two Italian science writers at the beginning or mid-career are selected to spend a week in June or July at Harvard Medical School. Sc...

Alla 50° edizione di TTG Incontri Rimini, Thema Nuovi Mondi è presente con 3 enti del Turismo: da nord est a nord ovest fino al Mar dei Caraibi. Con rinnovato spirito Yankee style, tornano sia Massachusetts sia Maine celebrando anche risultati estremamente positivi per l'annata intera del 2012 dal mercato italiano con un buon incremento di visitato...

Umberto Eco's "Numero Zero," a best-seller in the novelist's native Italy, will come out in the U.S. this fall. On Monday, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced a Nov. 3 release date for Eco's story of a ghostwriter in Milan caught up in an underworld of crime and conspiracy. Eco is known for his complex plots, and his publisher said the latest...