20th Annual San Diego Sicilian Festival in Little Italy
An estimated 75,000 participants attended the 20th Annual San Diego Sicilian Festival in Little Italy on Sunday, May 19. The event is considered to be the largest Sicilian-American festival in the United States. The weather was beautiful with clear blue skies as the streets were lit up with sun, color, food, games for kids, street vendors,...
The Meatballs Of Comedy
America's Funniest Italian Comedians!!! Join Chef Eva, The World's Greatest Tenor, Jimmy & Joey and some of the funniest Italian-American comedians working today as they turn Victorio's Ristorante into "Sunday Dinner At Mama's" with lotsa laughs!!! It's a phenomenal show from beginning to end and if you're not Italian you just might th...
Twelfth Annual Italian Feast of San Gennaro, Sept. 27–29
The San Gennaro Foundation kicks off October's Italian Heritage Month, Sept. 27-29, a celebration of everything it means to be Italian, with their annual street festival, The Galbani® Cheese Italian Feast of San Gennaro, Los Angeles, beginning with its fundraising gala, Prima Notte 2013, on Sept. 26, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla. ...
Italian-style screenwriting course
In this 10-week course, a successful Italian television writer, who is currently honored to serve as the official spokesperson of the Writers Guild Italia in Los Angeles, will give you an inside look at the art of Screenwriting through the Italian point of view and approach, providing you with all the tricks of the trade and techniques which the It...
An Italian-flavored Winter Fancy Food Show. Italy is #1 in the US for food
By Mauro Battocchi Perhaps for its central location within the Moscone Center, perhaps for its large size of 53 exhibitors - the largest - or just perhaps because Italian food is by now the most beloved variety at the global level, Italy's pavilion at the Winter Fancy Food Show is the most popular this Martin Luther weekend in San Francisc...
SLO's I Madonnari festival gets a new name — again
San Luis Obispo's street painting festival has a colorful new name. The annual event will now be called Via dei Colori SLO, which is Italian for "street of colors," according to Micah Smith, spokesman for American Institute of Architects Central Coast Chapter. Formerly known as the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival — and, brief...
In Silicon Valley c'è la "provincia di Ivrea"
by Mauro Battocchi La Provincia di Ivrea non è mai esistita. Se lo fosse stata, negli anni Settanta e Ottanta avrebbe ricompreso le cittadine californiane di Cupertino e Palo Alto. In quegli anni la Olivetti fece crescere un centro di ricerche in Silicon Valley da cui uscirono prodotti di avanguardia e una scuola di super-ingegneri italiani. &nbs...
Celebrating the Baroque Era
Saturday, October 18 10AM to 2:30PM This culinary course focuses on the culture of 17th and 18th-century Europe in general, and Italy, in particular - the Baroque period. Museum educator and chef Nancy DeLucia Real begins with a tour at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Explore masterpieces made by Italian painters and sculptors and the artists w...
An Italian-US partnership to support start-ups
A few weeks ago, start-ups addicted met in Los Angeles to attend Italia Restarts Up, a two-day event held organized to raise the attention of foreign investors to Italian start-ups and local innovative ecosystems. The event has been organized by ICE, the Italian Trade Promotion Agency, to encourage and support the internationalization of r...
Bracing for the Italian Heritage Parade On Sunday October 11
I cannot wait. The Annual Italian Heritage Parade will hit the streets of San Francisco on Sunday, October 11, starting from 12pm, in the historical Italian district of North Beach. Last year, on October 12, almost 90 floats took part in one the largest Italian Heritage parades ever recorded. This year we will see the greatest participation ever....
Pope Biopic to Open L.A. Italia Film Fest
by Ariston Anderson The 11th edition of the Los Angeles, Italia Film Festival will open with the American premiere of the Pope Francis biopic Call Me Francesco on Sunday, Feb. 21 at the Chinese Six Theaters. The festival is held one week before the Oscars and aims to draw attention to new and established talent from Italy. Directe...
Rediscovering LA's Little Italy thanks to this upcoming museum
Chinatown hasn't always centered around the neon-filled Central Plaza; the enclave was originally settled at what's now Union Station. So what used to occupy current-day Chinatown before the train station was built? LA's mostly forgotten Little Italy. One museum is making sure that Angelenos don't forget about the Downtown neighborhood's I...