Los Angeles, CA: LA's Italian Side (Greetings From Italian America: California Adventures, Pt 3)
Our adventures through Italian American California continue, as we make our way up the West Coast to the entertainment capital of the world… America’s Dream Factory… the 500 square-mile beacon of Southern California’s timeless allure that is Los Angeles! From a brief walk through the history of California wine, to one of America’s most unique monum...
A look at Carlsbad’s newest trattoria: 2051 Cucina Italiana
I love when our readers give us suggestions. Frank recently got a tip from his dentist’s office about a new Italian restaurant in south Carlsbad. As lovers of Italian cuisine, Taste of Wine was ready to visit the 2051 Cucina Italiana. Don’t let the restaurant’s location in a business park across from McClellan–Palomar Airport fool you — it’s some o...
Leonardo Awards 2022 – Humanities And Science Award For Early Career Researchers/Scholars
The Leonardo da Vinci Society and the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF) Bay Area Chapter are seeking applications for the Leonardo Award 2022. This award was established in 2019 on the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death to recognize the outstanding contributions of Italian/Italian American early career...
Capri Club is the coolest new bar L.A. has seen in years
The retro Italian charm might be slightly contrived, but the atmosphere of la dolce vita is wholly genuine at Capri Club, a picturesque new bar in Eagle Rock housed in what was once a neighborhood red-sauce joint named the Capri. Already packed nightly with casually well-dressed patrons sipping away on aperol spritzes, frozen negronis and all the m...
#Pasolini100 | Celebrating Pasolini's 100th Anniversary
Pier Paolo Pasolini is best known as one of the most celebrated and controversial filmmakers of twentieth-century Italy. But beyond his cinematic achievements, he was equally prolific as a novelist, poet, painter, actor, literary critic, and public intellectual. An iconoclastic critic of bourgeois social norms and an artistic maverick whose unortho...
2022 “Festa Coloniale Italiana” San Francisco’s Only Italian Street Fair
Saturday, August 27, 2022 - 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE. San Francisco Italian Athletic Club | 1630 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA 94133. The Festa Coloniale Italiana is the ONLY authentic traditional Italian festival held in San Francisco. It is a free, fun, family event that is open to the public. Enjoy live music from the Festa stage –...
Paul Sorvino honored by wife Dee Dee, other stars at his celebration of life: 'The ultimate movie star'
Paul Sorvino was honored Wednesday night during a celebration of life at the Hollywood Museum. The actor passed away on July 25 from natural causes. His death was announced by his wife Dee Dee Sorvino and his longtime representative Roger Neal. Dee Dee, Joe Mantegna and Lainie Kazan spoke to Fox News Digital about the kind of man the "Goodfellas" a...
Martin Scorsese Set to Receive the Eva Monley Award From The Location Managers Guild International
Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, considered one of the most prominent and influential filmmakers working today, will receive the prestigious Eva Monley Award from the Location Managers Guild International at its 9th Annual LMGI Awards, set for August 27, 2022, at the Los Angeles Center Studios. The awards ceremony and dinner will hon...
Italian Market Coming to Montana Avenue
Sogno Toscano is aiming to open a new “lifestyle cafe, wine bar, and specialty market” as reported by Toddrickallen.com. They are a distributor and maker of fine Italian food supplies to restaurants, chefs that also do home delivery to customers. Sogno Toscano already has a New York cafe and wine bar and on their Instagram page, in their bio, they...
5 Family Wineries That Show Mendocino County’s Italian-American Heritage
Winery names like Mondavi, Martini and Sebastiani are household names among wine drinkers. Italian Americans established these wineries in California in the early 20th century and their brands grew big over time. So big, in fact, that they became acquisition targets for the largest wine companies in the country and lost their founding-family connec...
Santa Fe Importers Italian Deli in Long Beach Celebrates 75 Years Serving Southern California
Santa Fe Importers proudly celebrates its 75th year in business. To honor the occasion, the deli is offering commemorative items and limited edition giveaways to customers in the coming months. Along with these offerings, a new website was launched in February that will make it possible for customers to place online orders before year end. The comp...
Getty Museum in LA to return illegally exported art to Italy
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is returning ancient sculptures and other works of art that were illegally exported from Italy, the museum announced Thursday. The Getty will return a nearly life-size group of Greek terra-cotta sculptures known as “Orpheus and the Sirens,” believed to date from the fourth century B.C., according to the museu...