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Downtown Boston has gained another Italian restaurant in the form of Joia, a glittery new restaurant and lounge inside downtown Boston’s Harborside Inn from Gianmarco Rinaldi, a former manager at popular North End spot Trattoria Il Panino. At Joia, Rinaldi has lined up Italian classics on the menu set against the backdrop of an opulent, gilded dini...

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Boston is well-known for its vibrant and ever-evolving culinary scene, with new chefs and new openings making headlines on the regular, but it’s the city’s oldest neighborhood, the North End, that is its most food-centric. Settled in the 1630s, the single-square-mile neighborhood is a study of 5 centuries of architectural development, from the circ...

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After 15 years of thinking only about bikes, riding, training, and European cycling adventures (I’m the founder of Peloton Magazine and the Editorial Director of the Road/Gravel Cycling Group at Outside, Inc.), I’ve come to a point where I just want to focus on one thing: sandwiches. Given my love of Italy, the most direct course to feed this newfo...

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Italy is one of the most-visited European countries and an epicenter for culinary travel. Visitors from all over the world flock to Bel Paese for its natural beauty, rich history, warm and welcoming people—and its beloved regional foods and wines.  However, with the confluence of airline flight cutbacks, escalating costs, and a reported surge in re...

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Ah, the opera. It is an otherworldly experience to sit in a hushed, dimly lit theater, gazing at the stage as a hidden orchestra strikes the first stirring chord. The drama is also a cathartic anecdote to end-of-semester anxiety. This April 27 through April 28, BU School of Music’s Opera Institute and their School of Theater exhibits “Alcina,” an I...

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With the new Italian Consulate of Western Massachusetts officially open, as of late Monday, it was already Tuesday in Italy. April 25 is Liberation Day, a holiday recognizing the victory of the Italian resistance — with Allied help — over Nazi Germany and its puppet state. “We recognize what Americans did for us,” said Arnaldo Minuti, consul genera...

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The Longmeadow chapter of UNICO, an Italian American service organization, will host its 21st Wine, Beer and Food Tasting on Saturday, April 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. As always, the event, which brings eateries, distilleries and wineries together, will be at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 1000 Hall of Fame Ave., Springfield. Longmeadow U...

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When: Tuesday, May 23 · 6 - 7:30pm EDT - Where: I AM Books 124 Salem Street Boston, MA 02113 United States The second largest Italian island and a keystone in Mediterranean history, Sardinia is known largely as the playground of the global jet-set, the Blue Zone phenomenon and bandits. Award-winning historian, journalist, travel writer Jeff Biggers...

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When: Fri, May 12, 2023 at 7:00 PM - Where: 339 Pleasant St, Malden, MA, 02148 Experience the magic of Italian opera like never before with "Vincerò! The Italian Opera Experience," coming to Malden, MA this May for a limited run. Presented by the Mystic Side Opera Company at the historic Wilbur Fiske Haven House, this Hollywood Award-winning immers...

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It was a trip that featured football, family and (new) friends. And what an unforgettably enjoyable experience it was for South High senior Angelo LaRose and the rest of the American Football Worldwide high school elite team that spent five days practicing in and touring Italy before playing the Italian under-21 national team last Saturday in Milan...

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