The beloved eatery, Pa Raffa’s is bringing back their potato skin pizza for this year’s Love The Ave & North End NB Restaurant Week! Visit them from Saturday, Sept. 21 through Saturday, Sept. 28 for this special pie. Pa Raffa’s has been a family run restaurant since 1964. “We pride […]
Above – New Bedford Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro #OnTheAve By Steven Froias // Community Media Manager Joseph Cordeiro’s eyes narrow and his voice becomes emphatic as he says, “People in New York, people in Boston, people everywhere want this – and we have it here!” The passion is aroused by the […]
Mark your calendars; the date for this year’s Festival Tipico de Guatemala de New Bedford – the Guatemalan Kite Festival – has been announced. Like year’s wildly successful fest, it will once again be held in Riverside Park off Belleville Avenue in #NorthEndNB. The date will be Saturday, September 21. […]
The City of New Bedford’s Community Preservation Committee (CPC) has selected a total of 17 projects for funding out of the 24 proposals submitted under their second annual selection process. Of note #OnTheAve are two projects: The former Strand Theater renovation into the Cape Verdean Cultural Center, and the Capitol […]
At 3:00 pm, on Sunday, April 7, 2019, ROSALIND MOHNSEN will take command of the great historic pipe organ in St. Anthony’s majestic cathedral style church. As an accomplished and extremely experienced performer, her music is described as fluid, bringing to mind images of merry brooks, babbling streams and thundering waterfalls. […]
“Immigrants and Refugees,” a topic explored in an episode of W. Kamau Bell’s CNN series, ”United Shades of America,” was the basis of a talk Wednesday evening, March 20 just #OffTheAve at the Global Learning Public Charter School. The screening and panel discussion was part of the New Bedford Lyceum’s […]
There’s no more quintessential night out than dinner and a movie, right? So, why not combine the two! That’s just what Incognito, at 1606-10 Acushnet Avenue does on their special movie nights – which have become must-attend evenings in the North End of New Bedford. Incognito is one of the […]
Day 4 of the Feast of the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament features a parade right down Acushnet Avenue to the official Feast grounds just #offtheave. For over 100 years, the City of New Bedford has hosted the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament – and it has become the largest […]
A new festival exploded onto the North End scene during 2018 – Fiesta Tipica Con Barriletes – the Guatemalan Cultural and Kite Festival. Held in New Bedford’s Riverside Park just #offtheave on Belleville Avenue, Fiesta Tipica Con Barriletes grew from a small event in 2017 to a region-wide festival on […]
As we continue our look back at the last year, we discover that a little rain didn’t dampen the fun at the 2018 Feast of the Blessed Sacrament. All photos on this page by Josh Souza for the New Bedford Economic Development Council. They were shot on Saturday, August 4, […]