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When: Friday, May 3, 2013 Where: Dante Alighieri Society — 41 Hampshire St., Cambridge MA [map] Please join architect and artist Adam Van Doren at the Dante Alighieri Society for an illustrated book presentation on Friday, May 3, 2013.

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Newpoli, Boston's Italian folk music ensemble, will hold its annual Christmas concert, Musica Di Natale: A Traditional Italian Christmas, Sunday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the YMCA Theatre, 820 Mass. Ave. Performers include Carmen Marsico, lead voice; Angela Rossi, lead voice; Bjorn Wennas, classical guitar/chitarra battente; Fabio Pirozzolo, vocals...

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Soccer via the World Cup is making the headlines this past month. Recently, in column for in the Clarion-Ledger, Ann Coulter helped it along when she linked the growing popularity of soccer to "moral decay" in the United States. I thought it was a funny column, a tongue-in-cheek stab at the definite media hype around this increasingly (albeit quadr...

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Two rising musical stars finally had the chance to get together in Boston and work on a long-planned collaboration. During a recent visit to Boston, Italian singer Paola Gruppuso had the chance to record her latest single, "Tonight," with local songwriter and producer Vinny Prezioso. A recent graduate of Berklee College of Music, Prezioso hails fr...

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Lauren Rappoli has always been an extremely gifted athlete. But what made her such an elite athlete is she took that God-given talents and worked absolutely relentlessly on becoming the best she could no matter the sport. Name it – softball, soccer or basketball, she can play.   She proved that during her tremendous four years of athletics a...

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by Frank Mazzaglia   When Fulbright scholar Francesco Cesareo studied at the University of Rome and at the Pontifical Gregorian University he was struck by the splendor of 'The Eternal City' with its ancient medieval streets, cascading renaissance fountains, and magnificent Christian art.   As a scholar with a particular interest in l...

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By Sarah Platanitis   A tortellini-making class will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Italian Cultural Center of Western Mass. The long class that starts at 1 p.m. and supplies will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring an apron to wear while they work and can take home the tortellinis that they make.   Space is l...

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The New England Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums is pleased to inform you that Dr. Nathaniel Silver, Renaissance Art Expert and a Curator at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, has graciously offered to lead a tour of the current exhibit at the Gardner: Ornament & Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice. The tour will commence at 10:3...

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Saturday, August 23rd, in Boston, the 87th anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will be remembered. Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and committed anarchists whose trial is regarded as one of the great miscarriages of justice in American history. Calling attention to the continued repression of immigrants a...

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L'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington ha ospitato ieri gli alumni dell'Assumption College, università cattolica con sede a Worcester, nel Massachusetts, che annovera una serie di programmi con l'Italia.   Tra questi, un Master in Business Administration nel cui quadro gli studenti americani del College trascorrono un semestre nel nostro Paese,...

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