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The Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State University invites you to celebrate Valentine’s Day Italian Style with a performance by celebrated jazz singer Vanessa Racci. The concert will be given at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, in Weston Auditorium on the Fitchburg State campus. Vanessa Racci is a professional vocalist and touring artist of Italia...

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We all know it: Christmas is a season of joy, tradition, and indulgence, a time when families gather to celebrate together with family and, of course, plenty of good food. What many of us may not know is that many of our favorite holiday flavors and traditions owe much to the centuries-old contributions of monastic communities. For centuries, monas...

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Calabrian singer-songwriter Peppe Voltarelli will share his diverse catalog of music on January 21st at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. He has been active since 1990 as the founding voice and leader of Il parto delle nuvole pesanti, an Italian new folk band. Since his early career, Voltarelli has explored different musical genres, resulting in a uniq...

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Bertucci’s, the New England restaurant brand, plans to open a Bertucci’s Pronto offshoot this spring in the Boston Government Center, the company said Monday. Bertucci’s, owned by Earl Enterprises, said the Pronto location will be designed to offer an expedited, take-out-friendly dining experience “without sacrificing the quality and taste Bertucci...

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Pour one out for hidden upstairs cocktail haven Brick & Mortar, a Central Square staple with sneakily good food—it’s closing sometime in the coming weeks after 13 years. But it’s not really goodbye, as wife-and-husband owners Avery Appleton and Gary Strack have a new project up their sleeves for the same space: Acqua & Bocca, debuting around Januar...

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Paul Posti may not be a household name but his decorated career as a war hero and then later chef makes him worthy of being so. In 2023, close friend George Mather of Raynham honored the former World War II B-17 Flying Fortress tail gunner by writing and publishing the memoir “Posti: War Hero, Hollywood Insider, Chef to Celebrities, and Redemption....

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More local film viewing options are emerging in Franklin! Quattro Eroi Lodge, the historic branch of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America has announced that they are hosting a screening of the film "Cabrini," released earlier this year, on Friday, December 6, at 6:00 PM at the Franklin TV studio at 23 Hutchison Street (off of Union, near La C...

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The Consulate General of Italy in Boston celebrated the culmination of the 8-day Festival of Italian Creativity at a Gala dinner on November 22 at the SoWa Power Station. The event, organized with the support of the October Italian American Heritage Month Committee of Massachusetts, commended the vibrant legacy of Boston’s Italian American communit...

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The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking. It’s also a result of Italian cooks who successfully resisted do-gooders trying to Americanize their food habits. An Italian Thanksgiving in the Italian cities like Waterbury, Conn., or Providence, R.I., or Revere, Mass.,...

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It's hard to get more "Boston" than Tommy Guarino. Millions of people have watched the East Boston native and his childhood best friend, Chad McDonough — better known as "Prosciutto Papi" — do their thing on Instagram and TikTok. It's admittedly spicy content, but it's steeped in the town they love. "There's a lot of people who say they're from Bos...

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