Italian grapes evolve into California wines
Despite its climatic similarities to Italy, California is producing a new and different set of wines with its Italian varietals, a panel of American and European experts said at a seminar in Calistoga this month. "We have a Mediterranean climate but we have very different microclimates," said Brooks Painter, winemaker at Castello di Amorosa, which...
Chiara Giovenzana introducing her “Startup Homes” Network
The Silicon Valley is a very competitive environment, where innovation, research and creativity could determine the success or failure of a business. Chiara Giovenzana, a member of Aspen Institute Italia's "Italian Talents Abroad" group, has accepted the challenge of investing her experience there and created a new company, which may soon thrive....
Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo - Movie line-up
This year our Cinema Selection Committee chose three very interesting movies, two comedies and one drama. In selecting these three movies, we wanted to present to our Santa Barbara audience three different aspects of present-day Italian society. All movies are in Italian and, as in the past, the admission is free. Read more ...
LA-Italia Fest to Honor U2, Song 'Ordinary Love'
Iconic Irish rock band U2 will be honored by the Los Angeles-Italia Film, Fashion and Art Festival, adding to an already star-studded guest list at the event, which gets underway Sunday in Los Angeles. The nine-year-old festival, which mostly focuses on the achievements of Italian and Italian-American filmmakers and entertainers, said it would pay...
Traditional Italian in Lompoc Valley
Growing up in Marsala, Italy, Caterina Agate never imagined that her hometown's name would be the same as her restaurant's signature dish. But for the last 33 years, generous portions of chicken marsala as well as lasagna and risotto have drawn diners from throughout Santa Barbara County to La Botte, the 65-year-old owner's Lompoc-based re...
Knicks' Andrea Bargnani still hurt, could miss season opener vs. Chicago Bulls
Derek Fisher may have more faith in Andrea Bargnani than the big Italian has in himself. With the Oct. 29 season opener against the Chicago Bulls on the horizon, Fisher refused to rule Bargnani out despite the fact that the Knicks forward has not played since suffering a hamstring injury during the club's first preseason game two weeks ago. ...
Desert Arc's Italian Fest draws thousands to La Quinta
The aroma of fresh pasta sauce wafted through the crowd at La Quinta Civic Center Park Saturday during the opening day of Desert Arc's fourth annual Italian Festival. The two-day festival, which features plenty of Italian fare catered by local eateries — including myriad pasta dishes, meatball and sausage sandwiches and, of course, cannoli...
Travel talk with Patrizia Cinquini Cerruti: Visiting Italy
Sunday, April 19 • 2:00 pm • Admission $10@ The Italian Center, Carmichael Join the Italian Cultural Society's Travel Director, Patrizia Cinquini Cerruti, for this special seminar designed to give travelers to Italy strategies and practical ideas to make an Italian dream vacation a reality. Patrizia is a classroom instructor who has taug...
Play the Italian Way – Bocce! Part II – Bocce Now
by Catherine Accardi This is the second of a two part article featuring the timeless game of bocce ball. Part one of the article was published in the May 28, 2015 edition of L'Italo- Americano. In it we explored the history of this simple and entertaining activity. Subsequently, a reader submitted the following information by way of clari...
Papalucci’s Italian restaurant in Long Beach a trip down memory lane
By Merrill Shindler Despite the many gastropubs along Second Street in Belmont Shore that keep the street lively and then some, there's a parallel universe of old-school restaurants, dominated by a fair number of red sauce Italian joints that serve the sort of (mostly) Southern Italian cooking so many of us long for, after many a meal of f...
Sorelle Fine Arts: one way trip from Bergamo to L.A.
by Valerio Viale In 1994, the two sisters, Cristina and Laura Capitanio embarked in a one way flight from their foggy hometown, Bergamo – an urban conglomerate founded by Celtic tribes a few hundred years B.C. in Lombardy, region of Northern Italy – to the sunny Los Angeles – a metropolis risen up in an area which, accordingly to recent ar...
Il Circolo PD di San Francisco invita la comunita' italiana a un brindisi per le festivita'
Il circolo PD San Francisco-Berkeley-Silicon Valley e' lieto di invitare tutta la comunità italiana della Bay Area a un brindisi per le festività. Il brindisi sara' un'occasione per conoscere il circolo, e discutere insieme di idee per la comunità e per la politica in Italia. L'evento si svolgerà nella sala meeting, indirizzo 50 8th St, San Francis...