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The expression “don’t lie or your nose will grow” became a common saying after Walt Disney released the film “Pinocchio” in 1940. Pinocchio was a popular series written by Carlo Collodi that first appeared on July 7, 1881, in the Italian Giornale dei Bambini (Children’s Magazine). The story was titled “Le avventure di Pinocchio: storia di un buratt...

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Attenzione: il treno arriva ora alla Torino Porta Nuova,” the high speed train announced as it screeched into the Porto Nuova Train Station and the 10th and 11th cohorts (myself included) of the Global Entrepreneurship Experience Program (GEE) took our first steps into downtown Torino, Italy. Once known as the center of Italian film and the home of...

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Though it sounds like a menu in an Italian restaurant, the Bizzarrini Strada is a real car, and there’s no shame in admitting you’re hearing this name for the first time. The classic car enjoyed a rather short lifespan, having come to life in 1964 only to go belly up five years later. The accidental Italian marquee was declared bankrupt in 1969, an...

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Walking along Via Veneto in Rome, one is mesmerized by the grandeur of the avenue, with its wide sidewalks, gigantic buildings that were once luxury hotels, the tall trees that line the road. It’s been known as Rome’s Champs-Élysées or the equivalent of Italy’s Fifth Avenue. The street was catapulted to fame by Federico Fellini’s iconic film “La Do...

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Like birds migrating towards a pastel summer, the stars of the Dolce Vita began to move in the 1950s from Roman sultriness to coastal calm. In this way, the celebrity spotlight was turned from Rome to the Amalfi Coast–a location suitable for reconciling the restless rhythms of the jet-set with the slow and relaxed rhythms of the waves, for bringing...

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Younger Gen-Xers (no, I don’t like the “old millennials” label) – and every generation before – remember the thrill of walking with mille lire in their hand to buy five pacchetti di figurine, or the comfort that same walk would give when it was the time of the week to buy Topolino or  Il Corriere dei Piccoli.  And so, with a crisp note in the pocke...

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International icon of Italian style and award-winning design firm, Pininfarina, has officially opened its first New York City office–representing an exciting next step in the firm’s storybook evolution from bespoke coachbuilder to global design powerhouse. Founded in 1930, Pininfarina is lauded all over the globe for creating some of the most stunn...

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I’d already heard so much about the Italian Jewelry Manifesto, and, with the promise of seeing 50 designers and makers from Vicenza, Valenza, Arezzo, Orvieto, and beyond—right in the heart of midtown Manhattan—I decided I had to check it out for myself. I’m so glad I did. The venue, Piazza Italia on Madison Avenue, was light, bright, and spacious....

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Foreign Cars Italia, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, has had the pleasure of housing two incredible examples of the Ferrari LaFerrari hypercar. These two magnificent Ferraris were at the dealership for service as the dealership is an Official Ferrari Dealer. To learn more about these cars, the dealership uploaded a video to YouTube video, fo...

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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...

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