In the April 2013 issue of Bostoniano Magazine, we found some new articles featuring the North End and its people. Stefano Salimbeni interviews Gino Colafella from Johnny & Gino Barber Shop on Hanover Street. After his lifetime partner officially retired, North End barber Gino Colafella talks of his shop and the neighborhood that, over 40 Read More…
In the March 2013 issue of Bostoniano magazine, we found some new articles related to the North End. James Pasto revisits “Street Corner Society,” the famous sociological study of the North End by William Foote Whyte: About halfway through his stay in the North End, Whyte married Kathleen King, and the two moved to a Read More…
There is a new Italian American magazine in town, Bostoniano! The name may sound familiar because it comes from the creator of the Bostoniano.info blog / website, published by Nicola Orichuia. Using the tag line, “Boston’s Italian American Voice,” the free monthly magazine dropped off its first issue this week to 20 locations in the Read More…
A bocce tournament at the North End’s Langone Park kicked off the 2012 Festa della Repubblica. Twenty teams from Italian-American groups competed in the tourney which was held on Saturday, May 27, 2012. Bostoniano was there and has the photos. Also, check in next week on June 3rd as the Festa della Repubblica heads to Read More…