Italian Bred Starring Candice Guardino Sets Spring 2017 Los Angeles and Chicago Dates
Italian Bred, the hilarious and heartwarming one woman show announces shows in Los Angeles and Chicago for spring 2017. Written by and starring Candice Guardino, Italian Bred is based on true life events and told through the eyes of a little girl growing up Italian on Staten Island. Having written down everything her loving and outspoken grandmothe...
Molto Italiano
UNTIL RECENTLY, Sacramento was shockingly underserved in the Italian-restaurant department. For that, perhaps, we should blame Biba Caggiano. After all, she set the bar awfully high when she opened Biba on Capitol Avenue 30 years ago. But Italian restaurants are finally starting to appear around town. There’s OBO’, the Sellands’ fast-casual Italian...
Food and family are at the heart of Merced museum’s Italian exhibit
Food has been an important part of the Italian American household, and it forever connects those immigrants to Merced County, according to the designers of a new museum exhibit in Merced. The exhibit, “Grazie, America! From Italy to Merced County,” opens at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Merced County Courthouse Museum, on N and 21st streets. A wine toast...
Where to Find the Best Pasta in Los Angeles According to a Pasta Expert
Former director of public relations at Bon Appétit, Colu Henry is celebrating the publication of her first cookbook, Back Pocket Pasta: Inspired Dinners to Cook on the Fly. The book was born from the Instagram hashtag #backpocketpasta, which Henry created to describe the quick, delicious pasta meals she was cooking inspired by her Italian heritage...
Le allieve del liceo di Saint Francis High School di Sacramento ospiti in Consolato a San Francisco
Il Liceo di Sain Francis High School di Sacramento, in California, con le alunne del quarto anno d'italiano, è stato ricevuto al Consolato Italiano di San Francisco. A fare gli onori di casa è stato il console generale d'Italia, Lorenzo Ortona, coadiuvato dal vice console Luigi Biondi e dalla responsabile delle scuole nel distretto consolare Paola...
Tony Martini, longtime National Weather Service employee, dies at age 78
Veteran weather radar specialist, skilled softball player and talented mandolin player Anthony “Tony” Martini has died following stroke complications. Martini, 78, died Feb. 26. Martini, who worked for the National Weather Service for 33 years, was a reliable, affable presence in the Sacramento office, colleagues said. He always had time to help a...
Free film festival at Fé Bland Forum promotes Italian culture
Global studies major Lorenzo Marchetti is a man of many hats here on campus, serving as president of 2020 A Year Without War, co-president of the honors program, co-commissioner of marketing on the Student Senate and Italian Club president. Most of all, he is Italian. “Let’s promote what I am [100 percent Italian],” Marchetti said. “Let’s promote t...
Il senso dell’Italia per la Silicon Valley
Quante divisioni ha l'Italia in Silicon Valley? Due. Sono infatti solo due le grandi aziende italiane nel distretto mondiale dell'innovazione. La fotografia assai impietosa si ricava dal primo rapporto "European corporation innovation outposts in Silicon Valley" presentato oggi a San Francisco da Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV) e Mi...
L’epopea hollywoodiana di Vincenzo controfigura di Charlot
A Roma, negli anni Sessanta, potevi veramente credere di incontrare il mitico Charlie Chaplin in un bar del quartiere Appio Claudio, mentre sorseggiava un caffè, o negli studi di Cinecittà, mentre curava le luci per un film. La camminata insolita e i tratti del viso, anche in età avanzata, lo facevano somigliare in modo impressionante al celebre pe...
Italian Design: a history of excellence
Let’s start with a definition of “industrial design,” by Argentinian-born, Milan-based, painter, designer and philosopher, Tomás Maldonado: “Industrial design is a creative activity whose aim is to determine the formal qualities of objects produced by industry. These formal qualities are not only the external features but are principally those stru...
Nina Clemente Opens L.A.'s Di Alba, a Focacceria Haven in the Capital of the Celiacs
My partners wanted to do a to-go sandwich place. Having been a private chef in L.A. for about ten years I was, like, listen, sandwiches are not going to fly here,” said chef Nina Clemente, as she sat on a stool in her newly-opened Di Alba restaurant in the Arts District. The Italy-born, New York-raised chef, who was sporting a denim apron and her h...
Italian Importing Co., a midtown lunch favorite for generations, will close soon
In its heyday in the 1990s, well before the surge of new restaurants and bars on the midtown grid, Italian Importing Co. was known as an essential destination for lunch. The sandwiches were well-crafted, affordable and delicious, and you’d often get a little bit of banter on the side. Current owner Larry Otten, an alumnus of the famed Corti Brother...