Maria Grazia Affinito @ UCB (SEPT 19): Eating Pasta Off the Floor (8PM)
The Italian Society at Berkeley is delighted to announce that renowned Bay Area actress, Maria Grazia Affinito, will be showcasing her award-winning one-woman show, Eating Pasta Off the Floor, on September 19, 2016 in B-4 Dwinelle Hall at 8PM and leading a workshop the following day Eating Pasta Off the Floor is the story of Maria and her...
L'Italo-Americano 2nd Annual Golf Tournament
Join us for our2013 Golf Tournament !Last year's tournament was a huge success! With the help of our Sponsors and Players, we raised over $10,000!!! The proceeds helped L'Italo-Americano recreate a new product open to a new readership. Thanks to you, we created a new, user-friendly website, so you can access the news whenever you want; we gathered...
Mona Lisa Restaurant: An Institution for Italian Food and Culture in Little Italy
by Andrew Bagley Known in Italy as La Gioconda, which means "the happy one", Leonardo da Vinci's most famously acclaimed portrait is the Mona Lisa. Interestingly, Mona is a contraction of the formal form Madonna, the equivalent to Madam or My Lady in English. While Leonardo's original masterpiece hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris, y...
Al regista David O.Russell assegnato 'Capri master'
Al regista italo-americano David O. Russell, uno dei grandi favoriti agli Oscar con 'American Hustle' (che 'Capri, Hollywood Festival' proporrà in anteprima italiana il 28 dicembre) è stato assegnato il 'Capri Master of Cinematic Art'. Ad annunciarlo è il regista inglese Michael Radford, chairman 2013 della manifestazione, insieme ad un altro ricon...
Italy Comes To Santa Monica Art Studios Starting This Weekend
Santa Monica Art Studios and Arena 1 Gallery host a special two-night opening this weekend for a mini Italian festival featuring art, music, and fashion titled "All Roads Lead to LA." This cultural endeavor is presented in conjunction with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Los Angeles. Yossi Govrin, co-founder and director of the Santa...
Italo-American community to celebrate Italy’s Republic Day
The Federated Italo-Americans of Southern California will lead the Italo-American community in celebrating the 68th anniversary of when Italy became a republic during a luncheon on Saturday, May 31st in San Pedro. Italy's Republic Day, born out of World War II, commemorates the institutional referendum held by universal suffrage on June 2, 1946, i...
Italian night at Cibo Ristorante Italiano – a fundaiser for Festa Italia Santa Rosalia Foundation” on Thursday, August 28th
Don't Miss "Italian Night at Cibo Ristorante Italiano - A Fundraiser for Festa Italia Santa Rosalia Foundation " on Thursday, August 28, 2014 at Cibo Ristorante Italiano, 301 Alvarado in Downtown Monterey. Parking is available in the adjacent garage. From 5:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., Cibo will present a 4-course dinner for $24.95 featured below...
San Francisco’s La Scuola: Bilingual Education With an Italian Accent
What's the most beautiful thing about San Francisco? It's a common question. But in this case the person asking it is Matteo Renzi, the prime minister of Italy. He's querying students at La Scuola, an Italian immersion school in San Francisco that has just moved into a permanent new home on Fell Street. Of course Renzi, who is dedicating t...
The Italian Navigator has landed in the new world: a solo exhibition of New York by Rhonda Holberton
Centered on her ongoing investigations into the politics of technology, Rhonda Holberton's multimedia installation, The Italian Navigator has Landed in the New World, imagines the body as seen by the machine on the other side of the screen. Utilizing the austere aesthetics of digital semantics found in image recognition algorithms, the wor...
Saving the Leaning Tower of Pisa - January 22, 2015
Did you ever wonder why the Leaning Tower of Pisa is still standing? Join us at the IIC on January 22, 2015 for a engaging and enlightening lecture by the two leading experts of the Tower's restoration project. Prof. Michele Jamiolkowski and Prof. Carlo Viggiani will talk about the history of the building and the recent efforts and fe...
San Francisco Opera to Premiere Marco Tutino's "Two Women"
San Francisco Opera presents the world premiere of Italian composer Marco Tutino's Two Women (La Ciociara), with a libretto by the composer and Fabio Ceresa, June 13-30 as part of the Company's 2015 Summer Season. Starring Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, conducted by Company Music Director Nicola Luisotti and directed by Francesca...
Forma: Cheese-Centric Italian Arrives in Santa Monica
by Karin E. Baker One of the most eagerly anticipated new restaurants in LA just opened its doors, and I'm happy to note that it lives up to the hype. Forma, located on Santa Monica's Montana Avenue, derives its name from the Italian word "formaggio," the centerpiece ingredient at this new eatery. Forma's a great addition to a nei...