Italian drinks firm Campari Group has opened a new headquarters for its North American and US business units in New York City
The company announced it would move its headquarters from San Francisco to New York in February last year. The new offices, which overlook Bryant Park, occupy the 18th and 19th floors of the Grace Building in Manhattan. Campari Group hired global architecture and design firm Gensler to design the new office, which has been designed to evoke the gro...
A Violin Maker and His Apprentice Keep a Storied Tradition Alive
He grew up in Chicago. She grew up in Nashville. He’s a lifelong carpenter who’d just as well live in the woods. She’s a former gymnast who fell under the spell of violin while training in ballet classes. It would seem they don’t have that much in common. Except, that is, for the fact that they both want to make violins, and they’re both outsiders...
Tutti a caccia dell'Italia: in aumento il turismo Leisure e Business da States e Canada
Il 51% dei movimenti turistici dagli USA in Italia ha origine dagli Stati della Costa Atlantica e il 23% da quella del Pacifico. Tra le aree metropolitane, il 15% dei flussi proviene da New York. In generale, il mercato statunitense nella nostra Penisola muove 4,1 milioni di turisti per 35,4 milioni di pernottamenti e una spesa di 5 miliardi di eur...
Suffolk County Vocce takes over Indoor Bocce at 89 North in Patchogue
Last week, GreaterPatchogue published a story about a Ping Pong bar that could possibly come to Patchogue. Facebook commenters responded positively for Ping Pong — yet some cried out for a bocce bar in the village. Sal Martinico asked, “How about a bocce ball bar too?” Nat Scaccianoce wrote: “Yes on a bocce bar … “ Well, Patchogue already has a bo...
Lillian Perreca Papa, Italian bakery matriarch, dies at 93
Lilia "Lillian" Papa, daughter of the couple who founded Perreca's Bakery in Schenectady 1914, died Wednesday at the Ballston Lake home of her daughter, Maria. The matriarch of the Jay Street mainstay famed for its coal-fired, brick-oven Italian bread was 93. Born Lilia Perreca to Salvatore and Carmella DeRosa Perreca, Papa started working in her...
Il plotone perduto: la storia di 15 eroi di guerra dimenticati a 75 anni dal loro sacrificio
Il 26 marzo del 1944, settantacinque anni fa, quindici soldati italoamericani furono trucidati dai nazisti ad Ameglia, in Liguria, dopo il fallimento di una missione di sabotaggio. Ragazzi nati da famiglie di migranti, che hanno combattuto e sacrificato la loro vita per la libertà di tutti noi. Quindici giovani eroi dei quali rimanevano appena i no...
All hail Dorothea Wierer: Italy's Biathlon queen
Dorothea Wierer made history. Again. The two-time Olympic bronze medallist became her nation's first ever biathlon overall World Cupwinner. She was the first Italian woman to win a world title clinching gold in the mass start in Ostersund just seven days earlier. Wierer finished Sunday's mass start in Oslo-Holmenkollen, Norway in twelfth position,...
Sargent brought industrious Italian workers to New Haven
It’s difficult now, as we look at the current configuration of Wooster Square, to imagine and appreciate the magnitude of the Italian settlement there in the early part of the 20th century. Looking at the official census documents or copies of the city directory during that period gives us a sense of the density and homogeneity of the area. On stre...
The year of Leonardo Da Vinci: history and curiosities about the italian genius
This year marks the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, with celebrations all over the world through a dense program of initiatives and events dedicated to him. Italian Traditions will guide you to the discovery of the Italian genius telling you his story and the curiosities about his life. We will also present the main ev...
A New York il gotha del vino per la 34^ edizione del Gala Italia
Il gotha del vino italiano sarà presente alla 34ma edizione del GALA ITALIA che si terrà a New York il 26 marzo. Ad annunciarlo è l’Italian Wine & Food Institute. L’edizione 2019 sarà composta da un Wine Tasting riservato agli operatori del settore seguito da un secondo Wine Tasting ed un Buffet Dinner esclusivamente riservati alla stampa. La parte...
Tony DeMarco & Mike D’ampolo To Be Inaugural Recipients Of Murphys Boxing’s Warrior’s Code Award
Coming off the heels of the sold out 4th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Clash which has amassed over 225,000 online views, Murphys Boxing is proud to announce the creation of the Warrior’s Code Award to celebrate the achievements of New England’s most legendary boxers. The award’s first recipients will be 2019 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee,...
Buy your own Italian paradise island from $1.1 million
Ever dreamed of owning your own Italian private island? An aristocratic family is selling one in Sicily for a lot less than the price of a Tuscan villa or a Manhattan loft apartment. Isola delle Femmine, a wild pristine atoll near Palermo with a 17th century crumbling stone tower, is up for sale with offers invited of more than €1million -- about $...