Stanley Tucci Reflects On Hollywood's Prejudice And His Career
Stanley Tucci, the ever-charismatic actor and filmmaker, has come out to share some startling experiences from his career, particularly how he often found himself battling against the deep-seated prejudices associated with being Italian-American in Hollywood. Best known for his vast array of roles, from the flamboyant art director Nigel in The Devi...
Locanda Positano: Bringing Italy to the bay
Picture this: a cozy, dimly-lit restaurant filled with inviting aromas of freshly-baked bread and simmering sauces. Bowls filled with steaming pasta are being dished out from the small kitchen around the back, and the walls are adorned with stunning landscape shots of the Italian coast. Families are laughing and smiling at each other, and the air i...
Wireless Innovator Gerard J. “Jerry” Foschini Remembered Bell Labs’ researcher will be honored at L.A.’s Italian American Museum
IEEE Life Fellow Gerard J. “Jerry” Foschini, a Bell Labs researcher for more than 50 years, died on 17 September, 2023, at the age of 83. Foschini made groundbreaking contributions to the field of wireless communications that improved the quality of networks and paved the way for several important IEEE standards. In the early 1990s he helped to dev...
Italian prog-horror soundtrack masters Claudio Simonetti's Goblin return to SF
Best known for their haunting '70s soundtracks used in the films of gory giallo director Dario Argento, Italian progressive-rock outfit Claudio Simonetti's Goblin plays a career-spanning selection of horror movie themes when its current tour comes to the Regency Ballroom Wednesday night. Initially working under the monikers Oliver and Cherry Five a...
The Italian Mediterranean Diet and Culinary Roots: Health and Tradition
Wednesday, November 20 · 5 - 7pm PST. Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway Malibu, CA. 17:00-18:00 Reception of Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar tastings. 18:00-19:00 Panel Discussion. In celebration of the 9th annual Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles, the Italian Cultural Institute, COM...
Creative Minds: Italian American Inventors and Innovators
Creative Minds: Italian American Inventors and Innovators. On view November 2024 – October 2025. Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA) - 644 North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA. From the jacuzzi and the telephone to the nuclear reactor and the Big Mac, Italian American inventors and innovators have impacted our lives in ways great and small...
Inside the new Little Italy Museum and Cultural Center in San Jose
With the new Little Italy Museum and Cultural Center in San Jose now open to the public, people got their first chance to explore the restored house on West St. John Street at Sunday’s Little Italy Festival. Anyone who toured the old Beltramo house during the groundbreaking ceremony in 2020 can attest that architect Sal Caruso — and a team of build...
Women and the Transnational Making of Italy
Saturday, November 16 · 2 - 4pm PST. St. Joseph Cathedral, 1535 Third Avenue San Diego, CA This presentation will discuss three works by women: Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi’s colonial diary Tre anni in Eritrea (1901), Sibilla Aleramo’s memoir Una donna (1906) and Marie Hall Ets’s transcribed oral storytelling Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant (197...
Stories of eggs and flour. A one-woman show by Gaia Mencagli
November 11, 14 & 17, 2024. 710 - Sansome St, San Francisco, CA. Week of Italian Cuisine in the World. STORIES OF EGGS AND FLOUR . A one-woman show by Gaia Mencagli. She travels in time and the space around her transforms. Between handfuls of flour, Gaia’s grandmother Rosa relives some of the most significant moments of her life, accompanied by mus...
Buon Cibo Italian Specialties to Debut at Scripps Ranch
Buon Cibo Italian Specialties, a brand new Italian deli, specialty market, bar, and eatery, is preparing to debut next year in Scripps Ranch at 10380 Spring Canyon Road, San Diego (CA). This new concept is the latest from Tom Tarantino, who opened RoVino in Little Italy in 2016 with Antonia Buono and Vincenzo Bruno, according to SanDiegoVille. Tara...
The Italian Connection with … L’Italo Americano
It was in 1977 that I flew down to Los Angeles from San Francisco with a group of Italian-Americans, including former mayor Joseph Alioto and his daughter Angela Alioto Veronese. Born in San Francisco in 1916, Alioto rose to prominence as an attorney and politician, becoming the 36th mayor of San Francisco, serving from 1968 to 1976. He was known f...
Florida startup aims to build “Italian hill town” in Sonoma County
A village topped by terracotta roofs would rise like a dream above rows of Tuscan-like vineyards. Except the “Italian hill town” would materialize in Cloverdale, in Sonoma County. Esmeralda Land, a startup developer based in Florida, is “conducting due diligence” to buy a 266-acre site of an old lumber mill to build a future tech utopia with the lo...