Rita’s Italian Ice opening first Mass. location this week
Rita's Italian Ice will open its first Massachusetts location this Thursday at 170 Everett Ave. in Chelsea. The location is also the first Rita's store for Patricia Shelton, of Roxbury, who signed a deal last year to bring 30 Rita's locations to Greater Boston by 2023. Through entity Ice Treats Inc., Shelton plans to expand to Suffolk, Middles...
Italian Designer Valentina Oppezzo thrills audience at ‘Elements of Design’ Fashion Show
Presented by VStyle Productions, the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc., and the Boston GreenFest, the eco-fashion was held on June 21 at the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston and featured collections inspired by a different element: air, water, fire and earth. The featured designers were Restored by Design by Martha Jackson as Air, Instilla by Val...
Armenise-Harvard Foundation invest $ 2 million in the Italian research
Thanks to a $ 2 million donation, the research program "Carreer Development Award" financed by Armenise-Harvard Foundation, acquires the participation of two new scientist, Prof. Vincenzo Costanzo (from the London Research Institute) and Prof. Federico Forneris (from Utrecht University), who in the next months will establish their laboratories in I...
Italian designer puts the V in Vegan Accessories
Italian-born Valentina Oppezzo is not your typical fashion designer or Italian woman for that matter. Veering away from traditional Italian materials like leather, Valentina prides herself on creating sustainable, vegan accessories. "I've been vegetarian for a couple of years, and because of that I don't wear leather, silk or fur. I avoid wearing...
Italian storage manufacturer Modula opens factory in Lewiston
Modula, an Italian manufacturer of automated picking and storage solutions for factories and warehouses, recently established its North American headquarters by opening a new factory in Lewiston. The company held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday at the facility, which covers more than 102,000 square feet of production and engineering space and...
Eco-Friendly Designer Valentina Oppezzo Delivers Groundbreaking Approach to Fashion
Throughout her travel from Italy to the United States, both as a professional photographer and fashion designer, Valentina Oppezzo never includes animal materials in her work. For Valentina, using all non-animal materials is not just a trend, it is a belief. Having started a career in Italy as a photographer, Valentina decided to carry on her pass...
Relaunched Mill Has American Heritage and Italian Know-How
by Alison A. Nieder A 19th-century textile mill in northern Connecticut is currently humming with the activity of 40 looms making woolen and worsted fabrics for the American luxury market. The mill, founded as Warren Stafford in Stafford Springs, Conn., has been reopened and relaunched as American Woolen Co., a company with about 25 e...
Eataly Could Be 'Very Close' to Securing a Boston Location
It looks as though we're one step closer to roaming Eataly's pasta-filled aisles right here in Boston. Boston Restaurant Talk reported last week that Mario Batali, owner of the Manhattan-based emporium, tweeted that Eataly was "very close" to securing a Boston location. Back in 2013, the Boston Globe reported that the Italian food emporium with re...
Ferrari fundraiser benefits Connecticut Children’s Hospital
It's not too often you get to see a Ferrari or Lamborghini on the road – let alone dozens all at once. That was the scene in West Hartford Sunday – all to raise money for a great cause. Thousands of spectators and car owners descended upon LaSalle Road in West Hartford Center for the 15th Annual Ferrari and Friends Concorso, presented by...
A master craftsman, part of Harvard Square’s fabric, to close
By Eric Moskowitz The suit John Kerry wore to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, the one he donned to walk his daughter down the aisle, and the blazer he grabs before every flight as secretary of state all came from the same place: not Brooks Brothers or Brioni but a little tailor shop above a grocer in Harvard Square. ...
Italian man to get first bionic hand that lets amputees physically ‘feel’
The first bionic hand to let amputees physically "feel" what they are touching will be transplanted onto a human later this year. An Italian man who lost the lower section of his arm in an accident will have the hand attached, via electrodes clipped on to two of his main nerves, directly to his nervous system. Scientists say this should let him c...
Export: Zanonato negli USA per rafforzare politiche commerciali
Rafforzare e consolidare ulteriormente la già proficua collaborazione tra Italia e Stati Uniti, puntando su importanti dossier di carattere economico-industriale e socio-culturale. Sono questi i principali obiettivi della missione che il Ministro dello Sviluppo Economico,Flavio Zanonato, effettuerà negli Usa da venerdì 7 a lunedì 10 giugno.La prima...