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Outdoor dining is coming back to Boston neighborhood’s streets and sidewalks, with one exception. The North End’s iconic Italian restaurants will not be setting up in the streets for the second year in a row. The North End — the city’s oldest neighborhood, which has the densest restaurant presence per capita in the state — was singled out in last y...

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Michael Valerio emigrated from Italy at age five to East Boston during the 1930s. We may never know if he ever envisioned his tiny pizza-by-the-slice business morphing into an iconic franchise. Papa Gino’s is for many people raised in New England a place they have many memories of eating at when they were kids, or perhaps even working at one as a t...

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Made-in-Italy technology conquers America and flies to Boston. As of early 2024, in fact, the avatar named Katherine created by QuestIT will be a new employee at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Katherine is the first avatar in the healthcare industry to be equipped with Large Language Model and thus able to understand and communicate medi...

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The owners of 21 North End restaurants and the North End Chamber of Commerce yesterday sued the city over its 2022 fees for restaurants in the neighborhood that wanted to use public sidewalks and streets for patio seating - and its ban on such patios last year - alleging the Wu administration and a local residents' groups hate Italians for some rea...

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The Consulate General of Italy in Boston won the second edition of the “Capitals of Italian Creativity in the World” (Festival of Italian Creativity) competition, an initiative launched by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation with the aim of encouraging and enhancing the ability of Italy’s network of embassies and c...

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The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian seafood-centric feast that dates back to the 1900s. This year’s feast at Bar Enza features staples from executive chef Tony Susi. For Susi, an Italian American, the feast carries profound meaning. It’s something he enjoys sharing with Bostonians and those who flock to the area this time of year. In some r...

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Shrewsbury native and comedy sensation Mike Birbiglia is bringing his latest stage show, “Mike Birbiglia Live: Christmas Parmesan,” to the Bay State for a 10-show engagement from Friday through Dec. 23 at The Wilbur in Boston. His latest is hot on the heels of Birbiglia’s most recent Broadway show, “The Old Man & the Pool,” which has been streaming...

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Andrea Bocelli is going to make another attempt at performing in Boston this holiday season. The Italian tenor has announced rescheduled dates for a string of postponed concerts amid some rare struggles with his world-renowned voice.  "As many fans now know, Andrea Bocelli has been working through health challenges forcing the famed tenor to postpo...

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A little before 11 p.m. on a hot summer night on Hanover Street, everything in the North End was business as usual. Old-school locals talked in an animated huddle on the sidewalk, pausing in unison to watch a new-school neighbor passing by wearing a Connecticut-tight ponytail and dressed in head-to-toe Lululemon. The owner of Dolce Vita Ristorante ...

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When: Tuesday, December 12 · 5:30 - 8pm EST - Where: Consolato Generale d'Italia a Boston, 600 Atlantic Ave Boston, MA 02210 United States Seminar on the Italian space activities since their birth but with a glance to the future and to the perspectives of “Space economy”. The Science Counselor Prof. Paolo Gaudenzi, with the help of major Italian ex...

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