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It is the dream of almost every kid: look up in the sky, jump into your very own spaceship and race among the stars chasing adventures.  I still remember when on April 12, 1981, with family and friends we gathered around in our living room to witness on TV the first launch of the Space Shuttle; I had dreams for days of being one of the astronauts o...

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When we speak of Italian immigration to the United States, Los Angeles is seldom the city that comes to mind. Usually, one imagines New York or other Eastern cities.Given this prevailing assumption, many are surprised to learn that Italian settlement in Los Angeles, which is home today to the nation’s fifth-largest Italian population, can be traced...

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Step inside Sixth + Mill, Downtown’s newest industrial dining addition offered up on Sixth Street in the Arts District. The all-Italian powerhouse plans to officially open for business on Sunday, August 26, proving once again that there’s always money in pizza, pasta, and wine. Sixth + Mill is the work of the Factory Place Hospitality Group, the te...

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From Saturday, September 22, 2018 to Sunday, October 14, 2018. Organized by LA Opera. Entrance with fee. Location: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion - 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Placido Domingo and James Conlon join forces for one of Verdi’s greatest works in a grand tale of resistance, romance and rivalry. A live broadcast of the season opene...

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Ha un tono della voce quasi dimesso.  Racconta e ogni tanto gli scappa uno slang in quell’americano tipico degli emigrati siciliani. Le parole non sono il suo forte. Perché il suo regno è la cucina. Lui è Celestino Drago, 61 anni a settembre, di cui quasi 40 trascorsi negli Stati Uniti, a Los Angeles dove si è trasferito definitivamente nel 1979 av...

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Restaurateur Piero Selvaggio has announced that he will close Valentino, his Santa Monica Italian restaurant, at the end of the year. The restaurant, credited with introducing Angelenos to authentic Italian ingredients such as prosciutto, balsamic vinegar and white truffles, opened on Pico Boulevard in 1972. The restaurant’s last night of service i...

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In the 1800s,Los Angeles used to have a vibrant Little Italy located in the historic center of the city, a place today known as El Pueblo de Los Angeles. In this very area two streets were named after two Italian pioneers, Nicola Quierolo and Giuseppe Garibaldi, leaders of the Italian unification and, starting from the 1900s, the Italian community...

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Thursday, September 06, 2018 - 6:30 pm PST. Organized by the Italian Cultural Institute Los Angeles in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute Montréal. Entrance: Free. Location: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles - 1023 Hilgard Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90024 This special concert by the duo TWO For NEW featuring saxophonist Giova...

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Ieri sera, 8 agosto 2018 a Galati Mamertino, si è inaugurata la sede della fondazione impegnata nel campo della promozione del territorio Siciliano e particolarmente della zona dei Nebrodi e della cultura enogastronomica che legata alla zona, intitolata al noto chef Celestino Drago che, proprio per la sua ormai quarantennale attività nel settore de...

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Italians and Italian Americans have played an instrumental role in the development of Los Angeles as one of the world’s greatest metropolises, yet the history of Italians in the region is largely unknown. Though Los Angeles is home to the nation’s fifth-largest Italian population today, and the Italian presence in the American West predates the nat...

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