When: Wednesday, July 9th — 7:30 p.m.Where: Regent Theatre — 7 Medford Street, Arlington, MATickets: $8 advance, $10 day of event. Click here to purchase tickets. In 1998 Marco Pantani, the most flamboyant and popular cyclist of his era, won both the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, a titanic feat of physical and mental endurance that no rider ha...

Italian-Americans looking to gain dual citizenship got to learn about the process to do that at the Mt. Carmel Society in Springfield.   Comitas is the Committee for Italians Abroad. Among many things, they help to promote cultural exchange and the Italian language.   Read more   Source: http://wwlp.com    

PESCOSOLIDO FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION, Inc. for the TWENTY-FIRST year, will award scholarships for study at accredited and acceptable educational institutions in ITALY.   You are respectfully requested to distribute the statement and the applications to interested and qualified students who may wish to participate in this learning experi...

by Phyllis Hinz & Lamont Mackay The North End, Boston's first neighborhood, is the place to experience the Italian lifestyle. Once the home of American revolutionaries, the community maintains an old world look. Plants hang from the balconies of five-storey, red brick, walk-up condominiums.   There is no such thing as a supermarket in t...

Tom Magliozzi was born June 28, 1937, in an East Cambridge, Massachusetts neighborhood filled with other Italian immigrant families.   It was there that he and his younger brother Ray picked up the uniquely Boston-Italian style of expressing affection through friendly insults and teasing. That style was at the heart of their banter with each...

Whether you are a local Bostonian, a New Englander or just someone visiting from another state or country, there is an excellent opportunity to sample some world-class wines while visiting some of the local Boston neighborhoods and local restaurants. City Wine Tours is a company that provides guided tours that explore multiple neighborhoods in Bos...

Local poet Walter Valeri recently became the first and only Italian to be elected to the Poets' Theatre advisory board. Through this prestigious organization based in Cambridge, Valeri will be working on bringing a Dario Fo Festival to the area in 2016, on the occasion of Fo's 90th birthday and the 30th anniversary of Fo' and Franca Rame's groundb...

By David Willis   Stefano Calvagno knew that somewhere, in some form, someone was playing a sport known as football. "I was aware that there was a sport called football somewhere in the world," he said in his native Italian accent. "But that was all that I knew. I had never seen a game. It's like cricket.   I know that someone pl...

by Sean Brennan   The life of a fighter has its ups and its downs, but the good ones always find a way to get back on their feet. UFC featherweight Charles Rosa, a 2005 graduate of Peabody High, can testify to that. Born into a large Italian family, Rosa was hardwired to fight.   His grandfather was a Navy boxing champion, his u...

In occasione del Giorno della Memoria, istituito dal Governo italiano ogni 27 gennaio, data dell'abbattimento dei cancelli di Auschwitz, l'associazione Professionisti Italiani a Boston, in collaborazione con il Consolato Generale d'Italia, il Consolato Generale d'Israele in New England, l'American Jewish Committee e la Boston University, ha organiz...