The magic of an Italian guitar
CIRCOLO ITALIANO Presents THE MAGIC OF AN ITALIAN GUITAR A delightful musical afternoon enlivened by the sounds of some of the most beautiful and beloved classic Italian songs, transcribed with the special touch of Maestro Paradiso! Join Circolo Italiano for this exceptional event in a lovely Montecito garden. VITO NICOLA PARAD...
A taste of Italy at the Winter Fancy Food Show
The 2014 Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco closed last week, following a three-day exhibition of more than 80,000 hand-crafted, artisan foods and beverages from more than 1,300 exhibitors from across the U.S. and around the world. Now on its 39th edition, the Winter Fancy Food Show is the West Coast's largest showcase dedicated to the latest...
You are cordially invited to an art talk by Francesco Vezzoli
April 27, 3pm - 5pm MOCA Grand Avenue's - Ahmanson Auditorium250 South Grand Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90012 Discover Cinema Vezzoli from the perspective of the artist on the exhibition's opening day! Francesco Vezzoli and Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, discus...
Columbus Foods Meets Salami Growth with 55,000-Square-Foot Expansion of Hayward Production Facility
Columbus Foods has broken ground to expand its existing Hayward, Calif., salame curing and processing facility by an additional 55,000 square feet. Set to be completed by July 2015, the new building will boast drying capacity for 23 million pounds of salame for the company, a venerable San Francisco Bay Area institution that has been bring...
Alfred Zampa, l’ironworker del Golden Gate un simbolo del lavoro italoamericano nel mondo
di Marianna Ruggieri A soli 20 anni era già sui ponti, pronto a sfidare la forza di gravità. Non è più sceso. Neanche l'incidente che subì mentre costruiva il Golden Gate, a San Francisco, e che lo bloccò per mesi a letto, riuscì a farlo rimanere lontano da quei grovigli di acciaio che piano piano, diventavano i ponti più maestosi d'Americ...
On Italy’s Republic Day, Italian Joy and Pride
by Mauro Battocchi Sometimes we Italians complain that we don't have enough of a sense of national identity because of our relatively recent political unification (1861). Yet I believe that we are developing a sense of belonging to a national community. There are several indicators that point to that reality. One of them is rather visual: more and...
Frank Sinatra exhibit coming to the Grammy museum in October
Following its highly acclaimed debut in New York in March, the multimedia exhibit exploring the life and career of multiple GRAMMY Award winner Frank Sinatra will get its Los Angeles premiere at the GRAMMY Museum on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015. As the official exhibit of the 2015 Frank Sinatra Centennial, Sinatra: An American Icon traces 100...
Leo Buscaglia: Italian of the Week
Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia was born on March 31, 1924, to Italian immigrants. The family moved back to Aosta, Italy, for the first five years of Leo's life before returning to California. After graduating high school, Leo joined the U.S. Navy. He never saw direct combat and was assigned to a military hospital. Thanks to the G.I. Bill,...
Immigration experience, diversity drive Redlands artist
Ever since she was a child growing up in the upstate New York community of Rochester, Danielle Giudici Wallis has been acutely aware of her cultural surroundings. She was always drawing and writing what she refers to as bad poetry, but she was also taking notice of the community. "Rochester, while I was there, was pretty homogenous," says...
"Cinema Italian Style" all'’American Cinematheque di Los Angeles
Torna anche quest'anno "Cinema Italian Style", rassegna ideata da Luce Cinecittà in programma all'American Cinematheque da oggi e fino al 20 novembre. Dopo il successo delle precedenti edizioni, la rassegna proporrà il meglio del cinema italiano contemporaneo attraverso una selezione dei titoli che hanno riscosso maggior successo nel 2012, aprendo...
L'assessore Fedele in missione negli USA per il progetto promozionale del Sistema Calabria
L'Assessore regionale all'Internazionalizzazione Luigi Fedele ha partecipato ad una serie di eventi negli Stati Uniti che rientrano nel progetto promozionale del Sistema Calabria in Usa. La prima tappa della missione commerciale statunitense – informa una nota dell'ufficio stampa della Giunta - ha riguardato una manifestazione d'interesse...
California's "Winescapes" Created By Intensive Immigrant Labor
"Italians have played a major role in shaping the California wine industry, as is clear by the profusion of vowel-ending names among the state's wineries. In fact, many of the Italian American wineries that now dot the map of California's wine regions are third-generation immigrant operations whose heritage goes back to men and women who left Italy...