The Finest American Exhibition for International Violin and String Instrument Making Hosts Los Angeles Roadshow Event on February 6th at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
February 6, 2014, Mondomusica New York, the finest American exhibition for international violin and string-instrument making, presented to over 70 guests at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles with presentations made by Antonio Piva, President of CRF USA and CremonaFiere S.P.A , Massimo Bianchedi, the General Manager of CremonaFiere S.P.A...
St. Peter's Catholic School has changed with the Mission
Back when I was a kid, my family lived on Potrero Hill, but my sister, brother and I all had a kind of dual San Francisco citizenship. We were Mission kids, too. We walked a dozen blocks every day down 24th Street to St. Peter's Catholic School on Florida Street. It was another world, then. The Mission was blue-collar, and almost all the k...
Pizza Maestro Tony Gemignani vies for new world record
By Giuseppe Esposito In the heart of San Francisco's storied Little Italy is Tony's Pizza Napoletana, home of eleven-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani. When the restaurant opened five years ago, it brought a sense of renewed vibrancy to the Stockton block of North Beach, which at the time had many empty store fronts. Read...
Fun, Italian style
Festa Italiana drew a crowd out to the Waterloo Gun & Bocce Club on a sunny, warm, summer Sunday to celebrate the culture of the area's Italian-American community. "Our turnout exceeded our expectations," Andrea Songey-Neff said of the second annual event. "It was a celebration of everything Italian. It's food, it's music, it's family...
Italian Startup Eager to Help L.A. Clean Up its Act
by Bianca Dellepiane On September 16th, our valued partner PortTech Los Angeles, a public-private partnership dedicated to incubate and help commercialize sustainable technologies for ports and beyond, showcased the annual PortTechLA Pitch Competition open to the most exciting Cleantech startups from around the country and abroad. ...
Opening of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Italy – 6 May, 6:30 pm
Please join us for a reception to announce the opening of the Center for the Study of Ancient Italy at UC Berkeley. The newly formed institution is intended to promote and advance the study of the many cultures of ancient Italy, with special emphasis on the Etruscans and Romans. It will also support teaching and research at the University...
Finally, a Rossini competition in the United States
The smiling gentleman is none other than the legendary Rockwell Blake and the woman is Guadalupe Paz, winner of the competition. Below she is pictured with the "fathers of the competition", Bruce Johansen and Michael Cressey. The first ever Rossini competition in the United States was held in California on November 13-14. The com...
Celestino Drago: Italian Excellence in the LA Food Scene
It could have been a completely different story. Celestino Drago, who comes from the Province of Messina (Sicily), might have become a successful mechanic at Piaggio. Instead of tinkering with Vespa scooters' engines, all day long, he made the choice to sweat blood in the kitchen. Today, after a thirty-seven long career in Los Angeles, che...
“Pronti per la Silicon Valley?”: le Marche guardano al mercato americano puntando sull’innovazione
Imprenditori marchigiani di frontiera, nel West col Web: può essere questa la sintesi della giornata dedicata all'innovazione come opportunità di crescita dell'export regionale verso gli Stati Uniti d'America e l'America del Nord. I quattro "Incubatori" marchigiani di startup (Hub21 di Ascoli Piceno, The Hive di Ancona, JCub di Jesi e BBCu...
Timely Biochemical Technology Joint Venture Announced by Italian and Bay Area Companies
Versalis, Italy's largest chemical manufacturer, and Genomatica, a San Jose-based technology leader for the chemical industry, have announced the establishment of a technology joint venture for bio-based butadiene from non-food biomass. Butadiene is a raw material used in the production of rubber for tires, electrical appliances, footwear, plastics...
Studenti al cinema italiano
Studenti di università losangeline hanno gremito l'auditorium Roberto Rossellini dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles per la proiezione di Scialla!, scritto e diretto da Francesco Bruni, nell'ambito di un'iniziativa lanciata dall'Istituto e che si propone l'obiettivo di avvicinare il mondo accademico locale al cinema italiano contempora...
From Italy to the US, passing through a Greek island – The Italian spotlight at the Newport Beach Film Festival
by Enrica Corselli Another Newport Beach Film Fest has gone, with its showcase of films, cartoons and documentaries from all over the world. Internationally recognized as one of the leading film festivals in the US, the one of Newport Beach is not only an occasion to showcase production from the most different countries, but also a way to...