Taste of Italy - October 11th, 2014 - Food and Wine Event to Benefit the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles
The sixth-annual Taste of Italy, a cultural-gastronomic event to benefit the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), will take place on October 11th in downtown Los Angeles. Taste of Italy showcases over fifty of the region's best restaurants and Italian and California-Italian wineries, as well as music entertainment, cooking demonstrations...
NELLA NOSTRA COMMUNITÀ: THE CHINESE PROBLEM IN SAN FRANCISCO’S NORTH BEACH
Not long ago, I ran into a colleague on Green Street between Powell and Columbus. When Rita saw me she asked, “Hey, what are you doing in Chinatown?” Her question perplexed me. Chinatown? I had just walked out of the Casa Coloniale Italiana Fugazi, San Francisco’s oldest Italian community center. We were standing in front of the former loc...
Celebrating Italian heritage: Honorary Queen Isabella is longtime civil servant Tami Del Bene
By Jeanita Lyman When conjuring an image of Queen Isabella of Spain, one wouldn't necessarily picture her riding in an antique Cadillac through the streets of San Francisco. But that's just the image a Redwood City woman will be presenting this Sunday. Lifelong civil servant Tami Del Bene, named San Mateo County's honorary Queen I...
All' Angolo Is Still Koreatown's Best Italian Restaurant
by Sarah Bennett Somewhere in my dreams, there is a little neighborhood Italian cafe, like the ones in Bologna (or New York, for that matter), with butcher paper on the tables and a jovial chef who can make his mother's specialty pastas and will charge you a fraction of what they're worth. The cheese tastes fresher, the bread is crustier,...
USC Trustee Andrew J. Viterbi to receive prestigious engineering award
By Robert Perkins Andrew J. Viterbi will be presented with the prize at a gala dinner in Washington, D.C. (Photo/Ziva Santop/Steve Cohn Photography)The National Academy of Engineering will award Andrew J. Viterbi, USC trustee, Presidential Chair and professor of electrical engineering systems and namesake of the USC Viterbi School of Engin...
Busalacchis Swapping Sicilian Into India Street's Po Pazzo
by Candice Woo One of San Diego's founding restaurant families — the Busalacchis — whose Busalacchi Restaurants stable includes India Street's Cafe Zucchero, is gearing up to refresh one of its other Little Italy restaurants. Po Pazzo Bar and Grille, which first opened in 2004 as a swanky old school chophouse that specialized in I...
Melissa Marino receives the Italian Studies Council Academic Excellence Award
Melissa Marino was selected for the 2016 Italian Studies Council Academic Excellence Award. The award is intended to recognize students who demonstrate outstanding achievements in Italian Studies and who are dedicated at integrating the study of Italian within their career plans. The Italian Studies Council is a philanthropic group whose g...
Nuovo Cinema Italiano alla Los Angeles Convention 2014
Si parla spesso della fuga di talenti dall'Italia, a volte con rammarico, ma bisogna ammettere che un mercato come quello americano presenta delle opportunità concrete a chi quel talento e tanta passione davvero ce l'ha. È ciò che accomuna i dieci artisti under 35 che compongono il programma di Film for Meeting 2014. Si tratta di uno showc...
Da Cava dei Tirreni alla Silicon Valley, partito con 600 dollari ne ha raccolti 1,5 milioni
«La Silicon Valley mi ha cambiato la vita. Ma se ce l'ho fatta è solo per un motivo culturale. Sono un uomo del Sud. Partito da Cava de' Tirreni, alle porte della Costiera Amalfitana, ho portato con me l'arte di arrangiarmi e la voglia di farcela». Adriano Farano, 34 anni, ha creato a Menlo Park, in California, Watchup , un' App per iPad e...
Tuscan brunch with Monteforte - November 02, 2014 at 12:00 am
A brunch with the artist. Join us for a unique opportunity to meet and brunch with Domenico Monteforte as we celebrate the conclusion of his month-long residency at the IIC. Renowned food expert Viola Buitoni will design and curate a glorious Tuscan menu to accompany Domenico's paintings for an exclusive experience recreating a full immer...
L'eccellenza italiana nel software
di Mauro Battocchi Quando si associa un Paese con il software, in Silicon Valley si pensa a Israele, all'India, all'Irlanda, sempre più spesso anche al Cile e ai Paesi scandinavi. L'Italia è nota – oltre che per l'arte e il cibo – per la meccanica, la moda e il design. I nostri giovani imprenditori IT che bussano alle porte di San Francisc...
Roberto Croci aka The Beast: one of us who made it in L.A.
Roberto Croci is one of us. He's one of many Italians who choose America and the American dream to live their passion, follow their heart, and fulfill their own dream. Without the proverbial cardboard suitcase fastened with cord – as somebody still pictures us -, we accepted to take a leap of faith, even if it means to abandon our native c...