L'Istituto Italiano di Cultura in assenza di gravità
by Luca Dell'Aquila In occasione del mese italiano della Scienza, il Consolato Generale d'Italia in collaborazione con The Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation e l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles hanno organizzato negli spazi di quest'ultimo una serata dedicata all'esplorazione spaziale. In presenza del C...
Italian festival coming to Central Park in Lakewood Ranch
by Sabrina Rocco Central Park will celebrate Italian fare and folklore Saturday when it hosts the second Festa Italiana. "Last year, we had a really successful festival," said Lori Basilone, director of community activities for Lakewood Ranch. "We had it over Columbus Day weekend. It was a little warm. This year, we decided to move it...
2014 Cinema Italiano Classico - Movie line-up
Ciao, Amici - This year our Cinema Selection Committee chose three wonderful old movies, all comedies. In selecting these three movies, we wanted to present to our Santa Barbara audience how three famous Italian dramatic actresses actually started out in comic movies. And they are funny, lovely movies! All movies are in Italian with Engli...
Laura Pausini’s Greatest Hits Tour 2014: one of Italy’s most beautiful voices is coming to town
An icon of Italian pop music worldwide, in her 20-year successful career, Laura Pausini has become a celebrated international artist with over 70 million albums sold since her debut at the Sanremo music festival in 1993, when she was only 18 years old. Laura is also the first Italian artist ever to be awarded by Fimi (Italian Music Industr...
Marinetti a New York
The Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles ApertaMente, Milano & i-ItalyTV, New York Under the Auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles present "MARINETTI A NEW YORK", A film by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory When: TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015 @ 6:30 PMWhere: Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilga...
Andrea Del Sarto and the Renaissance – 9 June, 6.30 PM
Julian Brooks, associate curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will talk about the Florentine Renaissance master Andrea Del Sarto (1486-1530), the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Getty and at the Frick Collection, New York, that brings into focus the artist's inventiveness, creative process, and workshop practice. More...
San Jose's venerable Paolo's restaurant to close Aug. 8
by Linda Zavoral The venerable Paolo's, which in 1958 introduced then-agricultural San Jose to fine dining, is closing Aug. 8. Carolyn Allen, the daughter of owner and founding chef Jack Allen (born Giacchino Paolo Aiello), announced the news "with deep regret" on the restaurant's website Wednesday. "After six decades in downtown San...
Facciamo Sognare i Californiani con Nuovo Cinema Italiano, Unisciti al Crowdfunding di BAIA
di Mauro Battocchi Complimenti a BAIA per aver lanciato una campagna di crowdfunding per il NICE (New Italian Cinema) 2015, il festival del nuovo cinema italiano a San Francisco che avrá luogo dall'11 al 15 novembre. Per gli italiani ed italofili della Bay Area questa è una straordinaria opportunità per incontrare attori e registi e nel co...
Orvieto & the San Francisco Connection
How does the striking city of Orvieto, Italy, a comune populated since Etruscan times, connect to San Francisco? The connection is easier than it might seem. Both are known world-wide for their iconic topography, hilly terrain, quaint charm, and, as seen in this photograph, foggy mists. Both are dramatic and romantic. And then there is the...
Digging Into L.A.'s Italian Past
by Nicholas Slayton The El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument offers a number of attractions. Visitors can stroll down Olvera Street and buy kitschy goods, check out the city's oldest building or grab a meal at one of the area's Mexican restaurants. They can inspect the monuments to the city's founding in 1781, drop by the Chinese A...
Bringing Tuscany to San Diego
When Antonio Bandini was 15 years old, he enrolled in a watercolor painting class in his hometown of Livorno, Italy. One day his teacher approached him and expressed a desire to enter one of his paintings in an art competition in Milan. Bandini was interested, but concerned. When would he get the painting back? The teacher explained that i...
Los Angeles Italia Film Fest dedicato a Frank Sinatra
Raoul Bova e il tenore Vittorio Grigolo sono le "Italian icons 2015" premiate al Teatro Cinese di Hollywood nella decima edizione di «Los Angeles, Italia - Film, Fashion and Art Fest» (15-21 febbraio), festival promosso dall'Istituto Capri nel Mondo che accende i riflettori sul cinema italiano nella settimana che precede la notte degli Oscar. &nbs...