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Bulgari has opened a new boutique in New York City’s Hudson Yards shopping center. The opening marks the LVMH-owned jeweler’s second location in the city after its Fifth Avenue flagship boutique, which opened in 1989. The 2,200-square-foot space is “quintessentially Roman,” said Bulgari, nodding to its Roman roots with mid-century Italian design el...

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Dear friends, as you know we do not stop even in August, and this is the editorial for the hottest month of the year. We are working on some new things that will see the light of day soon, and I hope to be able to announce some of these new things as early as next month. On July 29 I had the honor and pleasure of attending the John Fante Festival,...

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There is an extraordinary description of Made in Italy as seen from the perspective of design in the book “Il design e l'invenzione del Made in Italy” (Design and the Invention of Made in Italy) by Professor Elena Dellapiana. It is a theme that intersects with the United States several times, even in the introduction of the "Made in Italy" brand, w...

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The 134th Annual Feast celebrating San Rocco in New York City will be filmed by a crew developing a documentary as part of the project by the Centro Lucani nel Mondo under the auspices of the Regione Basilicata. Stephen LaRocca, president of the St. Rocco Society of Potenza says, "I invite you to join us this year for a wonderful celebration. Pleas...

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Whether you’re a native New Yorker or your travels bring you to Lower Manhattan, you won’t want to pass up a visit to D’Abruzzo NYC. Tommaso Conte, founder, and chef, sets up shop every Friday at Smorgasburg on Fulton Street outside the World Trade Center. That’s where he cooks authentic Italian street food, served under a signature orange awning s...

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Italy celebrated the return Friday of 266 antiquities from the United States, including Etruscan vases and ancient Roman coins and mosaics worth tens of millions of euros (dollars) that were looted and sold to U.S. museums and private collectors.  The returned items include artifacts recently seized in New York from a storage unit belonging to Bri...

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 The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the Lee Strasberg Creative Center have selected playwright and screenwriter Aniello Fontano to be the recipient of the 2023 Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission. Started in 2012, this annual initiative commissions an emerging playwright to develop a fully original work for college-age students. T...

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Fifth Avenue is used to seeing everything; it’s famous for films, high fashion, and luxury hotels. But perhaps it did not expect to be enveloped by the notes of ‘Va Pensiero.’ Instead, the International Friends of Festival Verdi amazed those present at the Gala by involving them in an unexpected opera performance initiated by a ‘plainclothes’ choir...

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New York City Opera’s Bryant Park summer series continues with Tenor Alessandro Lora in Concert on Saturday, August 19th at 7pm. An exciting young talent, tenor Alessandro Lora of Vicenza, Italy will perform a crowd-pleasing concert of diverse Italian repertoire including folk, popular, and traditional Neapolitan songs alongside operatic favorites,...

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Journey in time to one of the most influential empires in history through ‘Ancient Rome: The Exhibition,’ the latest exhibit to come to the streets of New York. Witness the world of Ancient Rome brought to life before your very eyes. Located at 378 Broadway, in lower Manhattan, the fascinating and educational exhibit by MetaMorfosiNY sets the histo...

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