by Silvia Simonetti A couple of weeks prior to the Christmas Holidays, all the friends of the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles were invited to celebrate both the fes- tive season and the launch of the 4th itinerary designed for Italy Art L.A. The smartphone application, developed by Alessandro Marianantoni's Mediars, is c...
READ MOREYou are invited to meet the new Italian Consul General in Los Angeles! ANTONIO VERDE Welcoming Reception Tuesday, January 20, 2015 4:30 - 8:00 PM Bowers Museum - 2002 N. Main Street, Santa Ana Join the Orange County community of leaders, restaurateurs and key members from businesses, Italian American organizations an...
READ MOREdi Riccardo Chioni Un'intera generazione di ragazzini s'era invaghita di lei, le teenager invece l'avevano eletta compagna ideale negli anni Cinquanta, quando Annette Funicello, la star sbarazzina acqua e sapone che nei panni di Mouseketeer entrava nelle case degli americani col programma "The Mickey Mouse Club", in bianco e nero sul picco...
READ MORE"It was more than music." This is the slogan of the campaign launched by Hot Italian, a modern Italian-American joint venture Pizzeria in Sacramento, in collaboration with the Tower Records Project. The project was established to fund the preservation of Tower-related history donated to the Center for Sacramento History by Tower founder and Sacram...
READ MOREby Mauro Battocchi We last left our guest post series with John Fugazi, the magnanimous Italian benefactor of the Italian community in San Francisco. Today, Nickolas Marinelli, the Northern California Editor for L'Italo-Americano, continues the Fugazi story and tells how he kept his promise to the community. Local news was rarely seen on...
READ MOREGiambattista Piranesi (1720-1778) was a printmaker, architect, antiquarian, art dealer, theorist, and designer—one of the foremost artistic personalities of the 18th century, whose views of Rome remain the city's defining image. Fresh, thought-provoking, and innovative, Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design sets out to show the range of the artist...
READ MOREPeroni Nastro Azzurro, one of Italy's leading style brands and the world's number one premium Italian beer, supports some of America's most exciting emerging fashion talent with its support of the Second Annual MADE for Peroni Young Designer Awards. To celebrate its second year, the program will open the competition to talented young desig...
READ MOREHit Week- the world's only music festival showcasing Italy's current scene on the global stage - returns to North America with its strongest line up to date. A greatly expanded edition of the annual event touches down in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Toronto between September 7 and October 30th. Headliners announced include iconoclastic...
READ MOREThe Group 63, protagonist of the Italian Neo-avant-garde - so called to distinguish it from historical 20th century Avant-gardes - was established in October of 1963 in Palermo. It brought together poets, writers and academics interested in debating aesthetic theories and in experimenting new forms of expression. The conference, with the p...
READ MOREWhat better way to celebrate Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's bicentennial than with a production of Falstaff? This opera, which adapts William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts I and II, and the Bard's The Merry Wives of Windsor, is nothing short of a sheer delight. The title character Falstaff (baritone Roberto Frontali in makeup and a fat...
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