Italian consulate services come to Little Italy
The Italian honorary consulate of San Diego will be opening its office in Little Italy at Amici House in the early part of January. The office will be helping Italian co-nationals with consultations for dual citizenship, passport renewals, and vital records. Appointments can be made online through the San Diego consulate website (which is in the wo...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Guitar Concert by Alberto Lombardi
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an annual international memorial day commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust, guitarist Alberto Lombardi will play at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust together with the German duo consisting of Friedrich Edelmann (Bassoon) and Rebecca Rust (Violoncello). Organized by the Italian Cultural Instit...
Italian American Association donates toys to disabled veterans' families and local children
The Central Orange County Italian-American Association has been quietly doing good works for decades. And last Christmas was no exception. On Dec. 18, members of the association, comprised of individuals of Italian-American heritage, met at the Dikeman Engine & Hose Co. in Goshen to turn over dozens of toys they had purchased to veterans Pete and L...
Joseph "Shorty" Quartuccio
Joseph (Giuseppe) Quartuccio Jr. also known as "Shorty Joe," passed away peacefully on December 22, 2019 at the age of 95 with his daughter, son-in-law and family by his side. Shorty Joe was born in Monreale, Sicily on February 10th, 1924 to Joe Sr. and Jennie Quartuccio. He is survived by his daughter, Joanne (John). His death was preceded by his...
Camp Ono: Introducing WWII POWs into local American communities
Although California was mercifully far from the battles waged during World War II, the war did make its way to Highland through a variety of activities from the draft, to rationing, to scrap drives and the presence of prisoners of war brought to San Bernardino from overseas. From February 1944 to the end of the war, 499 Italian POWs were kept at U....
Galerie XII Los Angeles Will Debut Paolo Ventura's First Ever West Coast Solo Exhibition
Galerie XII Los Angeles (www.galeriexii.com) is celebrating its first anniversary with the solo exhibition of world-renowned, Milan-based photographer Paolo Ventura. The exhibition of Ventura's magical photographic works, "An Invented World" spans six series over the last decade and will provide the most comprehensive overview of the celebrated Ita...
Lucio Fontana's Visionary 'Spatial Environments' to Take Over LA's Hauser & Wirth
Next year, the first comprehensive presentation of Lucio Fontana’s work will be debuted in the U.S. at Hauser & Wirth’s Los Angeles gallery. Entitled “Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948 – 1968,” the exhibition will showcase the Argentine-Italian artist’s groundbreaking work that was influenced by his interest in science and aerospace dis...
‘Buone Feste’: Celebrating Christmas in 1950s North Beach
I grew up in North Beach from 1946 through the late ’50s. I was the oldest of three sons born to an immigrant family from Sicily, a few years before Carol Doda’s breasts became institutionalized at the Condor Club, titillating tourists with silicone implants and watered-down drinks, catty-corner from City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, still gene...
D.C. Fontana, First Female ‘Star Trek’ Writer, Dies at 80
D.C. Fontana, who helped craft the lore of the 1960s television series “Star Trek” and developed one of its signature characters, Spock, as the show’s first female writer, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Burbank, Calif. She was 80. Her husband and only immediate survivor, Dennis Skotak, said the cause was cancer. Ms. Fontana was part of the “Star...
Los Angeles: visita consolare a San Pedro ai fini del rilascio passaporti
Nell’ambito delle iniziative volte ad agevolare l’accesso dei concittadini ai servizi offerti dall’Ufficio Passaporti, il Consolato Generale d’Italia a Los Angeles sta organizzando un incontro nella località di San Pedro. La missione è finalizzata alla raccolta in loco delle impronte digitali per il rilascio dei passaporti elettronici, da parte di...
Hollywood Flashback: Fellini Was Denied Oscar Love for 'La Dolce Vita' in 1962
For the 35th Academy Awards in 1962, La Dolce Vita was not submitted by Italy for best foreign-language film. Instead, Nanni Loy's The Four Days of Naples got the nomination. Perhaps the Italians felt that Federico Fellini's eighth film, which centered on a gossip columnist (Marcello Mastroianni) wandering into fountains with Anita Ekberg and parta...
Gary Sinise celebrates 25 years of advocacy for US veterans – let’s give him the tribute he deserves!
Hollywood star Gary Sinise is well known for the many ways in which he honors the U.S. military. The Forrest Gump star established his own organization – dubbed ‘The Gary Sinise Foundation’ – and through that has been able to donate millions of dollars to soldiers, veterans, first responders, and their families. Gary Sinise has been fighting to hel...