LA Clippers present Italian Heritage Night
LA Clippers present Italian Heritage Night: Monday, January 22, 2018 vs Minnesota Timberwolves at 7:30PM. Order your tickets online, use promo code “ITALIAN”, and receive a commemorative T-shirt. We look forward to seeing you at the game! 300 LEVEL: $24. 200 LEVEL: $42. 100 LEVEL: $83. Get Tickets! Tickets Include: A commemorative Italian Heritage...
Italian rights: property, inheritance, and citizenship
Wednesday, January 17 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm. Amici House, Little Italy, 250 W. Date Street (Date and Union Streets, at Amici Park). Please get your FREE ticket by January 9. Seating is limited, so reserve your spot today! Italian Rights: Property, Inheritance, and Citizenship. Presented by Sonia and Anthony Alioto of Italian Legal Language Services. Le...
Jake’s Italian Bistro and Brew offers great food
Jake’s Italian Bistro and Brew has been the local hot-spot bistro in Uptown Yucaipa since September 2011. Owners, Steve Babbitt and Jake Litras, uncle and nephew, are two of the most friendly people in town. If you stop by, you may even catch Litras in the back cooking up a storm, or you may spot Babbitt working behind the bar. When it comes to th...
The price tag alone will knock you out! Sylvester Stallone adds famous Rocky statue to his personal collection for $400K
Sylvester Stallone gave himself a very personal gift this Christmas. The 71-year-old Rocky actor, sources told TMZ, plunked down more than $400,000 for a statue of his iconic cinematic character, Rocky. The statue - which stands at nine-feet-tall and weighs 1,800 pounds - was a backup produced for the 1982 installment in the boxing anthology, Rocky...
La Befana Visits Little Italy
La Befana is an Italian holiday tradition taking place on the Epiphany Eve (January 5). Legend has it that La Befana is on a quest to find baby Jesus, so she visits every child's home and leaves small gifts in good children's stockings and fills naughty children's stockings with coal.La Befana will be traveling to Little Italy SJ, and your children...
Giardino Neighborhood Cucina: A taste of Italy in East County
For Karina Kravalis and Marco Provino, love blossomed over a plate of spaghetti di mare. The seafood dish — a specialty by Provino, a chef — proved to be the key that unlocked Kravalis’ heart. “This is the pasta that when we started dating, Marco was always making for me,” she says. “I’m a seafood person. He cooked it for me, and then I invited my...
Sonny Bono: 20 years later, his last ski run feels 'as if it was yesterday'
Twenty years ago this week, Sonny Bono went missing. He was a Palm Springs icon, born Salvatore Phillip Bono to a Sicilian peasant and a second generation Italian-American whose marriage was arranged when his mother was 14. In Washington D.C., he was the Honorable Sonny Bono, Republican member of the House of Representative for California’s 44th Di...
Amadeo Giannini, l’italiano che investiva nei sogni della gente
Il nome di Amadeo Peter Giannini campeggia sulla piazza a lui intitolata nei pressi del Financial District di San Francisco, la città che deve la sua rinascita proprio a questo gigante di origine italiana, quasi del tutto sconosciuto in Italia e meno famoso ahimé, di Vito Corleone! Eppure basterebbe da solo il simbolo della città di San Francisco,...
Terroni Grows Downtown Footprint With New Italian Deli and Marketplace
Downtown’s Italian food scene gets a further boost this week with the arrival of Dopolavoro, a casual side-concept from the Terroni team. The Italian deli and marketplace looks to open on Wednesday, some two-and-a-half years after first being announced. Dopolavoro sits just a couple of doors away from Terroni on Spring Street, inside the same large...
L'Emilia-Romagna nella Silicon Valley: tre nuovi bandi per startup e PMI
Andare in Silicon Valley per fare esperienza sul campo, lì dove si concentrano il maggior numero di opportunità e conoscenze nei settori più avanzati e innovativi, dall’Ict ai servizi web, tornare in Emilia-Romagna per crescere, sviluppando la propria idea d’impresa. A due anni dall’avvio dei progetti negli incubatori tecnologici dell’area californ...
Utopia is a land of Italian, eclectic food and art in Long Beach
Who knew that Utopia was in Long Beach diagonally across from a Courtyard by 0 and a Best Western Plus? I always figured that Utopia, as first envisioned by Sir Thomas More in 1516, was indeed an idyllic island in the southern Atlantic. But no, there it is at First Street and Linden Avenue, a very pleasant Italian/eclectic restaurant with a good ba...
Un pezzo d'Italia a Stockton in California
L'insegnamento della lingua italiana iniziò nel 1950 quando Inez Lucchetti, Faliero Lucaccini e Maria Marchesi istituirono le prime classi d'italiano per bambini figli di emigrati che vivevano nella Città di Stockton e dintorni, dove gli italiani avevano fatto fortuna coltivando la fertile terra della vallata di San Joaquin. Nel 1974 queste classi...