Genocide, Race, Heritage Surround Columbus Day Debate In Pittsfield
A debate that has flared up across the country for years took center stage in the Berkshires last night when the Pittsfield School Committee’s decision to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day on the school calendar overtook the city council meeting. A petition by Ward 7 councilor Anthony Simonelli that would state the city council’s op...
18th Annual Concorso Ferrari and Friends Event to be held June 23, 24
Join 3 Cares and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center at the 18th Annual Concorso Ferrari and Friends event on June 23rd and June 24th from 10:00 AM-3:00 PM on LaSalle Road in West Hartford. This event celebrates all makes and models of Italian automobiles—from vintage Alfa Romeos, Fiat and Lamborghinis to the supercars of Ferrari, Pagani and Mase...
Italian American Women, Food and Identity - Book presentation
Saturday, June 16, 6pm - 7.30PM EDT. I Am Books - 189 North St, Boston 02113. This mother-daughter research team explores how Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York, use food as a symbol and vehicle which carries multiple meanings. In these narratives, food represents home, loss, and longing. Food also stands in for race, clas...
Explore The Cuisine Of Southern Italy At The Boston Public Market
On a recent Wednesday night, I made the trek from WGBH in Brighton, through the city to the North End, and one of my very favorite places in Boston. The Boston Public Market, a popular farmers market/food heaven, opened in 2015, and already feels like an institution. This feeling is due in large part to The Trustees, the non-profit organization tha...
Daniela Puglielli, Accent PR and Mediterranean Diet Roundtable
The Mediterranean Diet Roundtable is an inspirational and networking conference, where scientists and Food Industry leaders discuss dietary trends in America. An elite gathering, the MDR has attracted hundreds of professionals from all over the U.S. and the Mediterranean Countries. Ready to roll its fourth edition: regarded as one of the most exclu...
Bricco, Strega owners team up on restaurant for Encore casino
Boston restaurateurs Frank DePasquale and Nick Varano are teaming up to operate an Italian restaurant in the new Encore Boston Harbor casino being built in Everett. The 135-seat, 5,200-square-foot Italian restaurant, to be called "Fratelli," which means "brothers" in Italian, is expected to bring the nearby North End into the $2.5 billion, 3 millio...
Lynn filmmakers' "Ciao America" will be screened at Lynn Auditorium
Film-making brothers Frank and Joe Ciota loved watching movies when they were growing up in Lynn. “I’d go to the Surf Cinema in Swampscott all the time,” said Frank, the director. The drive-in theaters on the Lynnway and on Squire Road in Revere were also favorite spots. “And the Harvard Square Theatre in Cambridge; I saw so many double features th...
New Film Tells Oral History Of Wooster Square
A new documentary about New Haven’s Little Italy is part fond recollections, part Ken Burns, and fully committed to the stories of everyday neighborhood residents. That’s the pitch that local filmmaker and reporter Steve Hamm made on a recent episode of WNHH’s “Deep Focus” for his new movie, The Village: Life in New Haven’s Little Italy. The movie...
Storico incontro tra la fregata Alpino della Marina Militare e la U.S.S. Constitution a Boston
L'8 giugno, la fregata europea multi missione (FREMM) della Marina Militare Alpino ha incrociato la storica unità navale U.S.S. Constitution prima di giungere all’ormeggio nel porto di Boston (U.S.A.), ultima tappa della campagna in Nord America. La U.S.S. Constitution è la più vecchia nave al Mondo risalente al 1797, a ncora galleggiante ed in ser...
Tuscan Kitchen Seaport Launches Brunch
Tuscan Kitchen’s newest location in Seaport is debuting brunch this weekend - Alla Cucina Toscana! Starting this Sunday, June 10, guests can enjoy ricotta and buttermilk pancakes, frittata bianca, uova benedicto, due uove fatte a moda tuo (two eggs your way), a variety of hand stretched pizzas, raw bar, paninis and plenty more artisan Italian speci...
Italian artist’s first solo show in Stamford explores life’s journey
For local artist Anna Badini, life is about constantly seeking, though not for anything in particular. Instead, Badini said it’s the journey, searching and seeing where life takes her, that she finds most fulfilling. “I search as if searching is living, is life,” she said. “And, I am attracted to anything that is meaningful, that has an emotional o...
Funeral procession honors former Middletown fire chief
Members of local police and fire departments honored the memory of late fire Chief Victor Lomascolo on Friday with a funeral procession through downtown. The body of Lomascolo rode on a fire truck past landmarks that represented different stages of his 65-year career as a firefighter. The procession rode past the Middletown Fire Department’s Centra...