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We are looking to import driving shoes from Italy. We currently work with a company in Italy and we require a new source. Other shoes (dress shoes) are of interest as well. We import direct and sell wholesale to several specialty stores in the USA and some online merchants. Please include electronics catalog and pricing. Thank you very much. Grazie...

The Orange County Italian-American Association recently donated $250 to the Goshen School District Youth Ending Hunger Club. Representing the association, Lee Quaranta presented the check to Sarah Scoville, the club advisor, as several student members looked on. Quaranta congratulated the members on the good work that they do in helping to feed lo...

The Dalai Lama on Friday gave an Italian plastic surgeon the 'Unsung Hero of Compassion 2014' award for his humanitarian efforts to help victims with birth defects or who were permanently scarred.   Paolo Morselli, the founder and president of Interethnos Interplast Italy, was handed his award by the the Buddhist monk himself at a ceremony i...

di Vincenzo Esposito   «Sensoria», calza intelligente, "fuga" da casa. E un nome: Mario Esposito. Potrebbero essere gli ingredienti di una favola, e lo sono. Un storia del Terzo millennio che può far pensare, e molto, sullo stato delle nostre università, della nostra ricerca e delle opportunità che vengono offerte ai nostri giovani. Tutto co...

A new Italian deli scheduled to open in April will bring artisan paninis, gelato and imported goods to the 1801 L Street building in midtown, next door to Yogurtagogo. Eatuscany—owned by husband-and-wife team Franco and Stefania Zerbinati (who hail from the northern Tuscan seaside city of Viareggio, Italy)—will specialize in lunchtime fare lik...

by Silvia Simonetti   In the months of May and June, the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles will dedicate a series of events, round tables, screenings, and other initiatives to Expo Milan 2015 and its main themes, nutrition and sustainability.   On the backdrop of the exhibition "Menu d'Autore" - open to the public from April 2...

di Gabriele Scarfone   Un leggero sole bacia le enormi strade deserte della città degli angeli. Los Angeles, alle 7 del mattino di una pigra Domenica, sembra un campo di battaglia di una guerra appena conclusa. L'energia negativa e positiva che si percepisce rende il panorama tetro ma molto speranzoso.   Questa è una città complicata,...

It was just like old times at the 40th anniversary celebration for John's Garden restaurant on June 28. John Musante, who just celebrated his 96th birthday the day before, and his son Jim, who ran the business until 2012, joined current owner Boyen Kinov, trading stories and anecdotes with old and new friends and customers at Malibu County Mar...

TV's 1960s sitcom "Green Acres" likely struck a chord with Eva Zaehringer, who was a fashionable San Francisco hairstylist when she fell in love with a west Sonoma County rancher back before World War II, moved into his hillside home and adjusted to life without electricity, a telephone or access to refined culture.   "I remember as a kid sh...

The San Diego Italian Film Festival, working with UCSD Italian Studies and Ethnic Studies, and SDSU Italian Studies, will mark February by celebrating Black History Month. And all of this is so that we can get closer to the culture we love, so that we can understand better and know more about this special way of living and relating that is part of...

Piccolo Napoli is a brand new, family-run, Italian restaurant and pizzeria located in Orinda's Theatre Square. The restaurant is owned by Peter and Maria Eberle, who employ the services of their high school and college-aged children - when they are not busy with their many competitive sports.   Eberle, a local fellow who graduated from Miram...

E' andato tutto molto più velocemente del previsto, per l'ultima creatura di Fabrizio Capobianco, Top IdF Friend (protagonista della prima intervista Italiani di Frontiera, all'inizio dell'avventura californiana nel 2008) e figura di spicco degli italiani di Silicon Valley, dopo il successo della sua Funambol di cui oggi è presidente. Con un piacev...