Paolo and Cesare d’Amico to be crowned CMA Commodores for 2023
Paolo and Cesare follow a succession of influential maritime industry leaders to receive the award and take the baton from current Commodore and Eagle Bulk Shipping CEO Gary Vogel. The 2023 Commodore Award will be presented on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at the Gala Dinner marking the conclusion of the annual Connecticut Maritime Association conferenc...
Vittori-Rocci Post sold for $2.2 million
The Vittori-Rocci Post has been sold for $2.2 million, another step in the plan to turn the veterans club into a rug store. The club sold the building on Feb. 1 to 143 Brimbal Avenue LLC, according to Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds records. The LLC was formed by Landry & Arcari Rugs and Carpeting, which plans to move its longtime Salem o...
TikTok’s Carlo and Sarah bring a piece of Italy to Boston
On TikTok, @CarloAndSarah show the hilarious — and often endearing — situations that arise when cultures clash. In real life, they want to bring people together. Sarah Mollica, 25, and Carlo Bruno Longo, 26, live together outside of Boston. Their cross-cultural comedy has amassed over 4.3 million TikTok followers in less than two years. It’s given...
Versace opens first outlet store in Wrentham
An international fashion house has opened its first outlet store in New England, which is only its second retail store in the state. Luxury brand Versace has opened at the Wrentham Village Premium Outlets. The Italian company is known for “fashion and lifestyle products including haute couture, prêt-à-porter, accessories, jewelry, watches, eyewear,...
Concorso Ferrari & Friends: A Supercar Gathering to Support Connecticut Children’s
Concorso Ferrari & Friends is Southern New England’s signature automobile event in support of Connecticut Children’s. The annual event attracts thousands of Connecticut Children’s supporters and regional car enthusiasts and includes a display of nearly 200 Italian supercars including Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Fiat. Since its in...
Rizzoli Emanuelli lands in America
Rizzoli, an ancient Italian fish preserves company announces the opening of an operational office in the United States of America, in Norwalk in Connecticut, alongside a new logistics center in New Jersey, in a strategic position near the port of New York. In the new American branch, coordinated by the Italian foreign commercial management, a team...
On Munjoy Hill, master tailor Evangelista Donatelli is remembered as a perfect fit
Evangelista Donatelli, known to many friends and customers as Vange or Vangie, liked to sit in a white plastic lawn chair on the sidewalk facing Congress Street and wave and talk to people passing by his longtime Munjoy Hill tailor shop. Donatelli, who opened Donatelli’s Custom Tailor Shop in 1972, died on May 16. He was 84. He was a master tailor...
An innovative bridge between Calabria and the United States to train talents
To encourage, support and develop entrepreneurial relationships between Italy and its best innovative realities with the Boston ecosystem. This is the goal at the base of the agreement signed between Entopan Innovation, an incubator/accelerator and open innovation hub based in Catanzaro, and 42N Advisors, B-Corp that aims to support Italian compani...
Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe Opens its 16th Location - its First in Fairfield County, CT
Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe continues to open more Connecticut locations to sell their famous Award-Winning grinders. G. Matthew Youngs, the franchise owner of the newly opened location in Norwalk, CT, – as of March 2022 – discovered Nardelli's in 2012 when he and his friends were at a lacrosse tournament in central Connecticut. After experiencing Na...
Tommy Guarino puts the work in to make his digital dream a reality
Tommy Guarino had a stereotypical Boston upbringing, and he’s fully embraced all of it. Not out of pride, per se, but rather as a matter of creative inspiration. Hailing from East Boston, the 22-year old Guarino still lives in the same triple-decker house that his grandmother bought back in the ‘70s, and when it comes to tradition and idiosyncrasie...
ITA Airways Set To Begin ‘New Routes’- Italy To The US
Subsequent to the turnover from Alitalia to Ita Airways back on October 15 with the first flight to New York’s JFK Airport, some of the routes inherited from Alitalia were not used until the late winter or early Spring of 2022. With the advent of the coming summer travel season and the reduction of flight restrictions, more flights are being schedu...
High demand revs up sales in Lamborghini’s first year in Greenwich
West Putnam Avenue has long held a prominent position on the circuit of car collectors. That popularity has helped one of the world’s leading makers of ultra-luxury vehicles make a fast start during its first year of sales in Connecticut. Nearly a year after opening its showroom at 300 W. Putnam Ave., Lamborghini is seeing robust local demand for i...