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...Federal Hill - center of the city's large Italian community - is one of America's best, if least known, Little Italys; try one of the many raviolis - plump with lobster, spinach, basil - at Venda Ravioli on Atwells Avenue, vendaravioli.com. For more innovative fare, head to the Mills Tavern, an 1850s mill turned bistro on North Main Street. Sit at the bar to get bartender Ashlyn's advice and cocktails, and don't miss the side orders: the better-than-your-mom's macaroni and cheese, and the onions, laced with Roquefort and grilled until brown and sweet. The best restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhode Trip | 6/22/2006 | See Source »

Gabriel Camacho, a regional organizer for the American Friends Service Committee in Cambridge, said Monday that the Sensenbrenner bill contains “proposals that mirror the language of the 1850s Fugitive Slave Act” which made it a crime to harbor or support a runaway slave...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Offers Sanctuary | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

Gabriel Camacho, a regional organizer for the American Friends Service Committee in Cambridge, said Monday that the Sensenbrenner bill contains “proposals that mirror the language of the 1850s Fugitive Slave Act,” which made it a crime punishable by up to six months in prison to knowingly aid a runaway slave...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council: Undocumented Immigrants Are Welcome Here | 5/9/2006 | See Source »

...Love is exciting and fascinating too. Beneath his bland exterior, Paxton subtly shows the pressures of trying to be the breadwinner of a '50s-style household (that would be the 1850s) in the 21st century. And the polygamist compound where Bill grew up keeps pulling him back, Corleone fashion, from the 'burbs, driving the plot in dark, gripping directions. Stanton is perfectly cast as the pious, menacing Roman, who insists on the cut from the second store, although, legally, Roman is an investor in only the first. "There's man's law, and there's God's law," he warns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Take My Wives, Please | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...architecture and a curator of the “Degas at Harvard” exhibit, can point out exactly why these two works are hanging side by side. It’s not simply that both were created by Edgar Degas during a trip to Italy in the 1850s.“He reused the same pose,” Wolohojian explains. The proud posture of Degas’ young cousin Giulia Bellelli is the exact mirror of the disdainfully regal pose of the woman in the Renaissance portrait. Wolohjian hopes visitors will see these sorts of connections as they...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seeing Degas Through Wolohojian’s Eyes | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

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