What started as a high school side job in the heart of Springfield eventually helped Talya Pessolano kick-start her own business in South Boston. Pessolano is at the forefront of The Dirty Italian, a business that specializes in gourmet charcuterie, boxes and grazing tables. She has since turned her traveling business into a permanent residence, dr...

Gufo, the latest restaurant from Coda Restaurant Group, will open Friday at 660 Cambridge St. in Cambridge. The modern Italian restaurant opens with dinner service as the first stage for the multifunctional, 4,200-square-foot space. Next month, Gufo will open its café, serving house-made pastries and enoteca-inspired sandwiches such as mortadella a...

The North End is getting a brand-new hotspot tomorrow.  Umbria will open at 250 Hanover Street with a menu of Italian classics and dry-aged meats in a chic new multi-level space.Owner Frank DePasquale is reinventing Umbria, which was a Boston nightlife staple for over 20 years downtown. The DePasquale family is bringing the concept back to their ho...

Show your Italian pride at Fenway Park for our Italian Celebration, in conjunction with the Italian American Baseball Foundation, on August 29. Ticket holders who purchase via this special offer will receive a custom Red Sox replica jersey highlighting the Italian flag on the front and the outline of the country on the sleeve. Additionally join us...

The 113th annual Fisherman’s Feast returns to the North End in August, honoring the long fishing tradition of Boston’s Italian-American population. The four-day festival, running from August 17 through 20, will see streets packed with food vendors and live entertainment — shutting down North, Fleet, and Lewis Streets to car traffic. While Boston’s...

A small peninsula jutting into the Boston Harbor, the North End is one of the city's oldest and most storied neighbourhoods. Puritans from England settled the area, followed by waves of other European immigrants whose red-brick homes still crowd the narrow, maze-like streets. By the early 20th Century, tens of thousands of Italian immigrants had tr...

Charlestown’sCharlestown’s 10 City Square holds a special place in Boston restaurant history. For nearly two decades, it was the site of notorious celebrity chef Todd English’s landmark restaurant Olives, at one time a line-inducing spot that drew people to Charlestown from all over the city. After a subsequent turn as Legal Oysteria — an Italian r...

On June 23 and 24 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Boston Early Music Festival’s presentation of Francesca Caccini’s “Alcina,” a comic opera in four scenes, will serve as a reminder that music in 17th-century Italy did not concern itself exclusively with liturgy, nor was it written exclusively by men. In fact, this year’s encore performances...

Danilo Gallinari did not play a single game during the 2022-23 NBA season. The player has now chosen his future in the league. According to Adrian Wojnarowski from ESPN, the Italian forward has chosen to exercise his player option in the contract with the Boston Celtics and will remain with the team during the next season as well. Gallinari tore hi...

IO MI CANTO DA SOLA Storie di donne mai arrese (I SING MY OWN SONG - Stories of Women who never surrendered). Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215. Friday June 9 at 7:30 PM; Saturday June 10 at 7:30 PM; Sunday June 11 at 3:00 PM. The show is a series of monologues about historical Italian women who were victims of vio...