Al regista David O.Russell assegnato 'Capri master'
Al regista italo-americano David O. Russell, uno dei grandi favoriti agli Oscar con 'American Hustle' (che 'Capri, Hollywood Festival' proporrà in anteprima italiana il 28 dicembre) è stato assegnato il 'Capri Master of Cinematic Art'. Ad annunciarlo è il regista inglese Michael Radford, chairman 2013 della manifestazione, insieme ad un altro ricon...
Italy Comes To Santa Monica Art Studios Starting This Weekend
Santa Monica Art Studios and Arena 1 Gallery host a special two-night opening this weekend for a mini Italian festival featuring art, music, and fashion titled "All Roads Lead to LA." This cultural endeavor is presented in conjunction with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Los Angeles. Yossi Govrin, co-founder and director of the Santa...
Italo-American community to celebrate Italy’s Republic Day
The Federated Italo-Americans of Southern California will lead the Italo-American community in celebrating the 68th anniversary of when Italy became a republic during a luncheon on Saturday, May 31st in San Pedro. Italy's Republic Day, born out of World War II, commemorates the institutional referendum held by universal suffrage on June 2, 1946, i...
The Italian Navigator has landed in the new world: a solo exhibition of New York by Rhonda Holberton
Centered on her ongoing investigations into the politics of technology, Rhonda Holberton's multimedia installation, The Italian Navigator has Landed in the New World, imagines the body as seen by the machine on the other side of the screen. Utilizing the austere aesthetics of digital semantics found in image recognition algorithms, the wor...
Saving the Leaning Tower of Pisa - January 22, 2015
Did you ever wonder why the Leaning Tower of Pisa is still standing? Join us at the IIC on January 22, 2015 for a engaging and enlightening lecture by the two leading experts of the Tower's restoration project. Prof. Michele Jamiolkowski and Prof. Carlo Viggiani will talk about the history of the building and the recent efforts and fe...
San Francisco Opera to Premiere Marco Tutino's "Two Women"
San Francisco Opera presents the world premiere of Italian composer Marco Tutino's Two Women (La Ciociara), with a libretto by the composer and Fabio Ceresa, June 13-30 as part of the Company's 2015 Summer Season. Starring Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, conducted by Company Music Director Nicola Luisotti and directed by Francesca...
Francis Ford Coppola: The Program You Can’t Refuse
By Catherine Accardi The evening of November 15, 2016 brought the San Francisco Bay Area an opportunity that could not be ignored. The opportunity presented itself when San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, known as the nation's premier public affairs forum, announced they would present Francis Ford Coppola in a rare public appearance, in conversatio...
Off-Broadway Actress Candice Guardino & Her Husband Face Lawsuit for ITALIAN BRED L.A. Run
The New York Post reports that off-Broadway actress Candice Guardino and her husband Thomas Felicciardi are being sued by investors Joe Cecala, Emily Conner and Lawrence Schwartz. The trio claim that the couple took their $68,000 investment for their proposed revival of 'Italian Bred' and ran off to Los Angeles, where they used the funds f...
Musician Dreams of Publishing Italian Song Book
"Although I have been busy writing about traveling around the globe, I have been getting arrangements to put together an Italian Gig Book," said piano player Tony Di Bona. He, and vocalist wife Giovanna, run Roman Holiday Music. "We do weddings, festivals and themed parties, just to name a few," said the Italian-American who is a native of San Dieg...
Le basiliche italiane in California. Quando Sant’Ambrogio ha ispirato la Powell Library e la Royce Hall
Affermare che storicamente ci sia stata, e continui a esserci tuttora, una profonda influenza della cultura italiana nei confronti degli Stati Uniti (senza mai dimenticare, ovviamente, il grande ascendente inverso), può essere un fatto abbastanza pacifico e – per certi versi – assodato. Ma quando dalle asserzioni più generali si passa alle...
San Diego’s Sicilian Festival Will Merge with the Little Italy Festa in October 2015
The Sicilian Festival, the first festival to be held in San Diego's iconic Little Italy neighborhood, has announced that it will become part of the annual Little Italy Festa beginning October 11, 2015. For 21 years, the beloved Sicilian Festival was the labor of love for a small group of volunteers whose goal was to preserve the heritage and cultu...
Maria Fassio Pignati sang the U.S. National Anthem
Brava! Sons of Italy member Maria Fassio Pignati sang the U.S. National Anthem at the San Francisco Giants game against the San Diego Padres last month for #ItalianHeritage Night! Maria is the former state president of the Order Sons of Italy - Grand Lodge of California, and she currently serves on the board of several Italian and Italian Ameri...