Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 100 years of beatitude, and the best is yet to come…
The month of March has brought us Spring, and the 100th birthday of a legend, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, celebrated poet and San Francisco’s first Poet Laureate. He is also a painter, social activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers located in San Francisco’s North Beach district. On the occasion of this historic month, L’It...
Recruiting announcement - 2 Positions immediately available - Italian Trade Agency in Los Angeles
Recruiting announcement - 2 Positions immediately available - Italian Trade Agency in Los Angeles.ITA Los Angeles is seeking to fill a full time Junior Market Analyst position. Job description: • Organize, coordinate and take part in promotional activities, such as trade shows pavilions, conferences, business trips and advertisement campaigns • Dev...
Italian Comfort Food at Giuliano’s
Opened in 1952, Frances and Gaetano Giuliano established their delicatessen in Gardena, Calif. Bringing with them a tradition of Italian cuisine, the couple established a legacy of freshly prepared and inexpensive food. Offering a wide assortment of Italian deli items and warm loaves of bread, Giuliano’s in Gardena is the only location to feature m...
Ugo Tognazzi: A Film Series
This year's appointment with classic Italian cinema at the legendary Castro Theatre will pay a tribute to Italian icon Ugo Tognazzi. As an actor, director and screenwriter, Tognazzi performed in over 150 films in the Golden Age of Italian Cinema. Together with Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi and Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi inv...
California-Italian restaurant opens in South Berkeley
Creekwood, a California-Italian restaurant that has brought new flavors to South Berkeley for almost six months, opened Nov. 20 after about six years of preparation, as first reported by Berkeleyside. Located on Sacramento Street, Creekwood has a 1,700-square-foot floor plan and can seat 50 guests indoors and another 20 outdoors on the patio, accor...
L'Italia del Sud incontra il sud della California
Nei giorni scorsi, nove artisti contemporanei italiani del mondo della pittura, della scultura, delle installazioni e della fotografia hanno esposto le loro opere, presso la Galleria Arena 1 - Santa Monica Art Studios in Santa Monica. Le opere provengono dal Museo di Apulia MAAAC (MUSEO DI ARTE ANTICA CONTEMPORANEA) di Cisternino diretto da Mimmo T...
Air Italy’s first Milan-Los Angeles flight takes-off
Air Italy’s first non-stop flight to Los Angeles was inaugurated today, taking off from Milan Malpensa at 13.00, adding a third direct service to North America following last year’s launch of Milan-New York JFK and Milan-Miami. The new Milan-Los Angeles IG943 service which will operate four times weekly was inaugurated by Air Italy’s Chief Operatin...
Cinema Workshop On Italian Director Giuseppe Tornatore At LA Is This Saturday, April 6th
Cinema Workshop: Italian Directors. Giuseppe Tornatore - Burbank – Saturday, April 62:30 pm to 4:00 pm. $45. Register Here. During this cinema workshop, participants will watch clips from the best movies directed by famous Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore. The presenter will guide you through a discussion before and after each clip highlighting...
Musicarramba! With Valentina Ranalli
Thursday, April 4th 2019 at 7:00 PM PDT. Amici House, 250 W Date St., San Diego CA, 92101. Get tickets here. Valentina Ranalli is an Italian jazz singer and songwriter from Naples. She is noted for her purity of tone, phrasing, intonation, and improvisational ability. Valentina sings in English, Italian, Neapolitan, French, and Portuguese. She stud...
Dinner at Petaluma’s Della Fattoria is a feast for the eyes and tastebuds
After massive changes to the physical layout of its downtown café, along with expanding the menu to now include dinner, Della Fattoria has the makings to set itself apart as one of Petaluma’s premier downtown dining spots. It can easily compete with the best that the rest of Sonoma County has to offer. First and foremost, Della is a world-renowned...
Primo Levi: Full Face and Profile
The year 2019 marks the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Primo Levi, a writer and chemist who, like no one else before him, was able to represent the Shoah and its echoes in literature. Levi’s precision and linguistic clarity make him one of the most significant Italian writers of the last century. Professor Marco Belpoliti, a leading expert on Pr...
Juventus, Italy joins Juventus, Redwood City
Before European soccer became a household brand in the United States, there were a handful of big-name clubs that true soccer fans knew: Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid. On that list as well was Juventus FC, arguably — and I stress the word “arguably” — the biggest club in Italy, one that was originally founded in 1897. In 1956, the Juventus...