La giostra cavalleresca di Sulmona sfila al Columbus Day di Boston
Sbarca in America la Giostra Cavalleresca di Sulmona per promuovere la storica rievocazione anche Oltreoceano. L'occasione è quella del Columbus Day, che viene celebrato il prossimo 12 ottobre. A Boston (Massachusetts) sfilerà una rappresentanza del corteo storico, con la presenza soprattutto di figuranti del Borgo di Santa Maria della Tomba, gemel...
Great pizza just part of Gino's in Agawam offerings
We're not exactly sure what qualifies a pizza to carry the designation "New York Style." Is it a chewy-yet-tender crust, a minimum of sauce, or a certain structural tendency that might be described as "fold-ability"? Gino's Pizza and Grill, a pizza operation in Agawam, proclaims it produces just such a big city pie, but whether or not their handiwo...
Springfield celebrates the beginning of Italian Heritage Month
Monday marked the start of Italian Heritage Month in the City of Springfield. City leaders and members of the Italian community raised the Italian flag at the Christopher Columbus statue at the intersection of Main and Locust Streets, in the city’s south end. The neighborhood was once home to a large Italian population. “In a culture like Springfie...
IL Volo with Plácido Domingo Come to River St. Theatre This Weekend
The Italian operatic pop trio, Il Volo, stars this weekend in their special "3 Tenors Tribute" performance with Plácido Domingo conducting at Jaffrey's River Street Theatre. The HD filmed concert performance, IL VOLO with Plácido Domingo: Notte Magica will be shown this Friday & Saturday, (October 6 and 7) at 2 pm and 7 pm each day. This celebrated...
Documentary: Boston’s North End: An Italian American Story
When: Saturday, October 14, 2017 @ 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. -Where: North End Branch Library / 25 Parmenter Street Join us for a viewing of the first feature-length film that chronicles the vibrant Italian-American community that has called the North End of Boston home for well over 100 years. Based on historical records and interviews with Italian Amer...
Taste of Italy cooking at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Craving Italian on Saturday and looking for somewhere or something different to try? Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Springfield's South End is holding its annual Taste of Italy festival offering over 40 favorite Italian main and side dishes from which to select for dinner, as well as a dessert table overflowing with sweet treats. The celebratio...
St. Brigid’s Italian Festival was ‘meraviglioso’
Faith, fellowship, fun and food! Those are – and have been for years – the trademarks of the annual St. Brigid’s Italian Festival that people like Millie Santilli said, “is held in September to coincide with our parish’s Feast Day.” It’s a coming together of proud parishioners – as well as members of the community – to support the Roman Catholic Ch...
City’s switch to Indigenous Peoples’ Day slights Italian immigrants’ contributions
I attended the Sept. 18 City Council meeting that was attempting to eradicate Columbus Day as a city holiday, a proposal sponsored by Councilor Pious Ali. It is true that Native Americans endured many atrocities in the past, and these actions should be rectified, but not at the expense of celebrating our Italian ancestors, who also faced discrimina...
Vintage baseball game in Newport honors WWI hero
Bernardo Cardines was an Italian immigrant, a resident alien, a tailor and a future soldier who lived just a short distance from one of the earliest baseball parks in the United States. He had journeyed to Rhode Island by his 15th birthday, registered for the draft by his 22nd birthday. He never celebrated his 23rd birthday. He was killed on a batt...
Lauretti to lead Bridgeport’s Oct. 8 Columbus Day Parade
It’ll take place in the Park City but the 109th Columbus Day parade on Oct. 8 will be led by longtime Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti. This is not the first time Lauretti, destined for a 14th term as Shelton’s mayor come November since no one is running against him, has head events here. In 2008 he served as the Barnum Festival Ringmaster and marches i...
Columbus Day Parade returns to West Haven Oct. 8
Pleasant outdoor temperatures, autumn foliage and ethnic pride for Italian-Americans. That’s the tradition for the Columbus Day Parade in Greater New Haven, which was held in Hamden last year and East Haven the year before that. This year’s march, the largest of its kind in New England, will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, in West Haven. The parade st...
Actor-comic Andrew Santino comes to Mohegan Sun
In the Showtime series, “I’m Dying Up Here,” actor Andrew Santino is Bill Hobbs, a caustic and cynical comic who is determined to climb to the top of the entertainment heap — at just about any cost. As stand-up comic Andrew Santino, he is far from being Hobbs. One critic has described the Chicago born-and-raised Santino as having a “dry-yet-jovial...