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Westport's Positano Restaurant announces plans to relocate adjacent to Westport Country Playhouse in the space formerly occupied by The Dressing Room Restaurant. Currently located at 233 Hills Point Road, Positano will close at that site on Dec. 31, reopening on the Playhouse property in February 2015.   "We're delighted to welcome Positano...

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...

The Rev. Robert A. Rochon, priest at St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church at 1231 Plainfield St. in Johnston, uses words like "compassionate, family, community endeavors" when he describes such events as Sunday's annual Italian Festival.   Moreover, the goings-on inside St. Brigid's filled-to-the-brim parish hall were yet another example of ju...

On behalf of Concordia Lodge 20, we would like to say congratulations and welcome to ALL new state lodge board members and officials. We look forward to working with you all, growing our great organization together, and getting to know one another a lot more in the future.   We also want to wish our Lodges President, Joseph McGonigal, for be...

The Mattatuck Museum celebrates the holiday season with a concert featuring renowned tenor Michéal Castaldo and guest soprano Marissa Famiglietti at 3 p.m. Sunday, December 20. Michéal Castaldo, a classical crossover tenor and light Italian opera singer, songwriter and composer, is an Italian-born Canadian who currently resides in New York. &...

A meatball eating contest, ethnic food and a singing duo from Italy will draw crowds at this weekend's Italian-American Festival starting Friday. About 8,000 people attended last year's event, according to coordinator Joe LaPorte. He's hoping to draw an even bigger crowd this year with new features to the festival which has been an annual attr...

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...

A grand reopening celebration for the Socialist Labor Party Hall in Barre was held on Sept. 2, 2000. The outpouring of help and enthusiasm from citizens from all walks of life who came to the celebration demonstrates how a modest building with a remarkable history galvanized a group of townspeople both young and old to take pride in the historic pr...

When: Sunday, April 24, 2016 – 3:30 p.m.Where: I AM Books, 189 North Street, Boston MALight refreshments will be served   Keynote TalkProfessor David Ward from Wellesley College– Professor Ward will go over the civil war experience, the collective memory of it, and the importance it has in today's Italian anthropological identity.   R...

Giovanni DeCunto realized he could live with his art at the tender of age of 12, when the mother of one of his best friends bought a painting for $35. "I thought I had a million dollars!" he recounts. Hailing from Lawrence, Mass., where his grandparents moved from outside Naples, the 67-year-old artist has come a long way since the days of selling...