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It was back in March 2021 that plans for Providence’s first food hall in the city’s Union Station were announced by Marsella Development Corporation.   The hall now has a name, Track 15, a first lineup of food and drink merchants and a tentative opening date of late summer 2024.   Issues with renovating a historic building and pandemic supply-chain...

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Friday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m. - Knickerbocker Music Center, 35 Railroad Ave., Westerly (RI). When Gene Parise was managing the entertainment at Perks & Corks a few years back, he booked a group from Naples, Italy, called La Terza Classe. Parise, a well-known local musician himself, said he clicked with members of the band as soon as he met them on the...

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There are over 40 events scheduled from November 13th to 19th in the United States for the eighth edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, an integrated promotion initiative by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs entitled in 2023 “At the table with Italian cuisine: well-being with taste.” In the background, there is the candidacy of...

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If you read through websites that reminisce about long-closed restaurants in the Greater Boston area and elsewhere in New England, you’ll inevitably see references to a certain type of dining spot that continues to disappear from the local landscape: the multi-room family-friendly restaurants that were often seen as destination spots. Some well-kno...

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The unveiling of the Christopher Columbus statue at its new home in Johnston drew mixed reactions on Monday morning. People in favor take pride in the statue, saying Columbus is a symbolic figure of Italian heritage. “Our heritage is still here. Most of the people that live here are Italians… the old Italians, they live here,” said Lucy DaLessio of...

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The 31st annual Columbus Day Festival filled the streets on Federal Hill on Saturday. Federal Hill Commerce Association President Rick Simone said the four-day festival goes from Dean Street to Sutton Street and includes food, art, and retail vendors alongside games, three stages for live entertainment, and a parade on Sunday. He added that his fav...

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Celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich will be in Rhode Island on Saturday, Oct. 7, at Dave’s Fresh Marketplace, 1000 Division St., East Greenwich. She will sign her latest cookbook, “Lidia’s From Our Family Table To Yours” starting at 11 a.m. The price of the book is $20, a savings of $15 from the cover price, while supplies last. Books must be purchased...

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A statue of Christopher Columbus that became the subject of contention in Providence has a new home on an island in Johnston, where surveillance cameras will be used to protect it from vandalism. Cleaned of the red paint that covered the statue twice in recent years, the statue was hoisted onto a pedestal Tuesday morning by a volunteer crew using a...

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It was a dream for 23 years, even though it lacked funds. Shipped from Italy in seven crates, it has survived car crashes, vandalism, erosion and more. Today, standing at the intersection of Memorial Boulevard and Bellevue Avenue, the monument is a tribute to the Italian people who forged it. On Oct. 9, Newport Festa Italiana will celebrate the 70t...

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Thursday September 21 at 5:30 PM EDT. RISD Museum, 20 N Main St, Providence, RI 02903. Kate Irvin, Curator and Department Head of Costume and Textiles, will give a presentation on Anna and Laura Tirocchi, skilled seamstresses, who immigrated to the US from Italy in 1905 and established A. and L. Tirocchi Gowns in Providence, Rhode Island in 1911. T...

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