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    Marchesi Pastry Shops find a new Sweet home

    Christina Boalt(September 16, 2015)
    The Marchesi Pastry shop has now officially found its new Prada style home, after moving from via Santa Maria alla Porta to via Monte Napoleone 9. Though it may be in a new location, the two hundred year old pastry shop veteran still offers the very same sweets that got them to where they are today.
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    La Scuola d'Italia Acquires 102,000 SF Building in Manhattan

    i. I.(September 11, 2015)
    Announcing a Major New Italian Educational and Cultural Center in New York: La Scuola d'Italia Acquires Fourteen Floor 102,000 Square Foot Manhattan Building near Columbus Circle to Facilitate Consolidation and Expansion. Multi-faceted building that previously housed Mount Sinai Roosevelt offices and facilities will enable the pre-K through 12 independent, private school to expand, adding a nursery school, cultural center, theater, gym and adult education facilities
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    A Brief History of Italian Heritage and Culture Month in New York

    I. I.(September 10, 2015)
    More than three and one half decades of special events, concerts, exhibits, lectures, and proclamations to celebrate and to better inform New York, the largest Italian city outside Italy, and other geographic areas throughout the United States and the world, of the important legacy of Italian and Italian American culture.
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    Ringo Starr Turns 75, Between Music and Cinema

    Alessio Shostak(July 08, 2015)
    Mr Starkey is blowing out 75 candles this Tuesday 7th July. As the least attractive and ingenious, yet possibly the most likeable Beatle, the mischievous Ringo Starr has had an extraordinarily innovative and influential role among several generations of ‘drummers’.
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    Launches an Award for the Mediterranean Diet

    Natasha Lardera(July 07, 2015)
    Presented by the fascinating Manuela Rana, a Molfettese transplanted from time in the Big Apple, the Casillo Award for the Mediterranean Diet is seeking to establish a strong identity of the Group with the values of the Mediterranean Diet, where flour is of course the most important component.
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    Calabrian Sauce Tales: Nonna Carolina's Unique Sauces Conquer the SFFS

    Natasha Lardera(July 06, 2015)
    City Saucery's Nonna Carolina sauce line won NYCEDC's (New York City Economic Development Corporation) Third Fancy Food Competition. The Taste of NYC: Fancy Food Fellowship is a City-sponsored competition designed to send New York City-based specialty foods manufacturers to an internationally recognized trade show, in this case the Summer Fancy Food Show.
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    OSIA: Honoring Joseph Sciame

    I. I.(July 01, 2015)
    The Guglielmo Marconi Award, the Order Sons of Italy in America's (OSIA) highest honor, is named for the Nobel prize-winning Italian physicist who invented wireless telegraphy. It is presented biennially to an Italian American who has made significant contributions to the United States. This year's honoree is Joseph Sciame. He will be recognized at the Marconi Gala during the Sons of Italy's 54th Biennial National Convention in Bonita Springs, FL, on August 22, 2015.

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