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LA Clippers present Italian Heritage Night: Monday, January 22, 2018 vs Minnesota Timberwolves at 7:30PM. Order your tickets online, use promo code “ITALIAN”, and receive a commemorative T-shirt. We look forward to seeing you at the game! 300 LEVEL: $24. 200 LEVEL: $42. 100 LEVEL: $83. Get Tickets! Tickets Include: A commemorative Italian Heritage...

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Sylvester Stallone gave himself a very personal gift this Christmas. The 71-year-old Rocky actor, sources told TMZ, plunked down more than $400,000 for a statue of his iconic cinematic character, Rocky. The statue - which stands at nine-feet-tall and weighs 1,800 pounds - was a backup produced for the 1982 installment in the boxing anthology, Rocky...

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Downtown’s Italian food scene gets a further boost this week with the arrival of Dopolavoro, a casual side-concept from the Terroni team. The Italian deli and marketplace looks to open on Wednesday, some two-and-a-half years after first being announced. Dopolavoro sits just a couple of doors away from Terroni on Spring Street, inside the same large...

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Who knew that Utopia was in Long Beach diagonally across from a Courtyard by 0 and a Best Western Plus? I always figured that Utopia, as first envisioned by Sir Thomas More in 1516, was indeed an idyllic island in the southern Atlantic. But no, there it is at First Street and Linden Avenue, a very pleasant Italian/eclectic restaurant with a good ba...

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Los Angeles has entered a golden age of Italian restaurants. The last year has seen master pastamaker Evan Funke open Felix in Venice, Sotto chef Steve Samson create an ode to Northern Italy with Rossoblu, pizzaiolo Daniele Uditi has a fresh take on Neopolitan pies with Pizzana, and Alimento chef Zach Pollack start his red sauce joint Cosa Buona. A...

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The Italian animated feature film Gatta Cenerentola - Cinderella the Cat was screened at the TLC Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on November 27th. The movie was chosen by the Academy for the category of Best Animated Feature (a first, for Italy, notwithstanding her long and successful tradition in the production of animated movies) and, therefore, it...

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Anna Maria Maiolino was displaced twice in her life: first from fascist Italy, where she was born in 1942, and then from the military dictatorship of Brazil, the country where she has resided most of her life. These seismic shifts had an impact on her largely autobiographical art, as she seemingly spent years waiting to finally settle in one place....

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“Trasferirsi in California” è il tema dell’incontro che si terrà mercoledì prossimo, 20 dicembre, presso l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles. L’iniziativa è organizzata dal Comites di Los Angeles, in collaborazione con l’Istituto e sotto gli auspici del Consolato Generale d'Italia, ed intende offrire una occasione di discussione e consigl...

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In the week leading up to Christmas, Roe Seafood will honor both an Italian-American tradition and modern sustainability efforts by presenting a Feast of the Seven (Sustainable) Fishes dinner series.  “With our Feast of the Seven (Sustainable) Fishes offerings, we really want to educate the public on sustainability and showcase some of the amazing...

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After three months of hard work behind the curtains, MEET ITALY had its debut event on the evening of November 29th at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. Weeks of frenetic preparations lead to a successful evening where many representatives of the Italian and Italian American professional and scientific community, along with other local...

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