La Festa della Donna Celebration (RI) on March 7
When: Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. - Where: Easy Entertaining / Rising Sun Mills | 166 Valley Street, Building 10 | Providence, RI 02909 - Costs: Members: $50; Non-Members: $60. Advance registration required by Thursday, March 1; Must be 21+. Join Rhode Island Region members and friends for an evening celebrating “La Festa della...
Honoring the city's war dead
Army Pvt. Paul Bongiorno landed in Sicily from Tunisia in July 1943 in the first wave of an historic Allied invasion that helped reverse the course of World War II by providing the Allies a gateway to the Italian mainland and then to Europe's interior. "I took part of the invasion of your native land, Ma and Pa,” Bongiorno wrote on July 15 in a let...
Mia Margherita: Italian cuisine with a contemporary twist
Mia Margherita, located in Bridgeport’s Charles Pointe development, is the only restaurant in West Virginia offering its customers artisan, handcrafted pizzas cooked in a coal-fired oven. Scott Duarte, who operates the restaurant for owners CP Hospitality, said the restaurant puts a contemporary spin on the culinary classic. “The thought was to try...
Nardelli’s to host grand opening in Torrington next week
Nardelli’s Grinder Shoppe will be celebrating the grand opening of its Torrington location on Tuesday at 10 a.m., according to a release. Store owner Elizabeth Begley will host a ribbon cutting with Torrington Mayor Elinor Carbone at the shop at 1268 East Main St., in the BJ’s plaza. Nardelli’s Torrington will also be unveiling its “Local Favorites...
The art of Jesuit Rome comes to Connecticut
Fairfield University, whose patron is the Jesuit cardinal and theologian St. Robert Bellarmine, is celebrating this year the 75th anniversary of its founding. Linda Wolk-Simon, the imaginative and energetic director of the University Art Museum, had an audacious dream—indeed, she readily admits, it was “quixotic”—to bring to Fairfield the magnifice...
Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts suffers month of misfortune - devastating water damage from burst pipe followed by burglary
When Gary MacQueston, a director of the Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts, stopped by Jan. 9 to check on the club's building at 56 Margaret St., it was raining. Inside. MacQueston rushed upstairs in the former firehouse in the South End to find that a plumbing fitting under a sink had given way on the coldest day of the year. He foun...
Dick Vitale still waiting for a ring after his 1979 trade led to 3 Celtics titles
Paul Pierce rightfully had his No. 34 placed in the Garden rafters Sunday, in large part because of his role in bringing a championship to the Celtics. But there was a guy at the gymnasium on Causeway Street last night who had a hand in three Celtics titles, and what I want to know is when is someone going to raise a banner for Dick Vitale? Yes, th...
Growing up in a world that provided everything you needed
When you’re a kid, your neighborhood is the center of your universe. Everything that you know, you learned there — at home, in school and with your friends right there on the street where you lived. Growing up in New Haven’s Wooster Square gave me an opportunity to have an experience that I still treasure and appreciate. How can you not appreciate...
Yeto’s, Biddeford restaurant serving Southern-Italian fusion, to open Wednesday
A new restaurant combining Italian and Southern food is scheduled to open this week in Biddeford. Yeto’s,at 299 Main St., will open from 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday to serve Valentine’s Day dinner, then open for good the following Tuesday, according to manager Jackie Hardin, who co-owns the restaurant with her fiancé, chef Bryan Casale. The food will ref...
Cooking with The Calamari Sisters
When: April 12 – May 20, 2018 Shows: Thursday 2 & 7 pm; Friday 8 pm; Saturday 2 & 8 pm; Sunday 2 pm - Where: Regent Theater, 7 Medford St. Arlington, MA - Tix: $45 – $65 - Call: 1-855-448-7469 or PlayhouseInfo.com Mangia Italiano! Hilarity, delicious dishes and two over-the-top plus-size Italian sisters from Brooklyn, stars of their very own fictio...
Il Circolo italiano di Boston presenta: Maschere in Movimento, il Mondo della Commedia dell'Arte
Thursday, February 15 | 7:30-9:30pm | 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge. Il Circolo italiano di Boston presenta: Maschere in Movimento: il Mondo della Commedia dell'Arte. By Chiara Durazzini, Co-Fondatrice e Direttore Artistico della compagnia di Commedia dell'Arte Pazzi Lazzi. La sala di riunione si trova davanti al edificio principale dei "Friends." M...
Italian Founder Of Hamden-Based Catholic Nuns One Step Closer To Sainthood
Between family tension, health issues, a destroyed reputation and exile from the community of Roman Catholic nuns she helped found, Clelia Merloni could have easily given up. But instead, Merloni bore those trials quietly and without complaint and chose to love those who persecuted her. It’s one of the reasons the nuns of the Hamden-based religious...