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Manhattan Beach is a resort town. It has impossibly soft sand, modernist beach-front properties, an iconic pancake house, and just enough sports bars to remind you that Redondo Beach is only a couple miles south. It also has impossibly good food. The tiny, blocks-long commercial stretch of Manhattan Beach Boulevard is home to M.B. Post (arguably th...

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Brentwood scores a winner today as Eater learns exclusively that Jon & Vinny’s is coming to the Westside neighborhood. The immeasurably fun red sauce Italian joint by chef stars Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo will take over Early World Restaurant on San Vicente Boulevard, with plans to bring the same big plates of meatballs and pizza to the area. The p...

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In his depiction of Jesus newly risen from the tomb and lifting his right hand in gentle blessing, painted around 1500, Giovanni Bellini represents Christianity’s savior as the morning dawn. At the far right, the bell tower of a distant town pierces the incandescent horizon, poised to toll and announce the arrival of a new day. In this extraordinar...

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L’Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana ( AVPN ) e’ approdata a Los Angeles nei giorni scorsi per sostenere la candidatura ufficiale italiana per il riconoscimento dell’arte dei pizzaioli napoletani quale patrimonio immateriale dell’UNESCO. Il Comitato si riunira' a Seul dal 4 all'8 Dicembre 2017. Il tema e’ stato oggetto di studio ed approfondiment...

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It’s been a tough year for Italians in Los Angeles. Columbus Day officially got the axe, and was renamed Indigenous People’s Day to atone for the sins of Christopher Columbus six centuries ago. And the Feast of San Gennaro Festival Los Angeles — an annual Italian street festival in Hollywood held to raise funds for charities and celebrate National...

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L'annuale ricorrenza del Columbus Day a Los Angeles, grazie all'intervento del Consigliere Comunale del XV Distretto Joe Buscaino, di origine italiana, si e' trasformata in "Italian Heritage Month". La celebrazione ha avuto luogo il 12 ottobre nella sala  del Cosiglio Comunale alla presenza della numerosa comunità italo-americana, durante la quale...

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La XVII edizione della Settimana della Lingua italiana nel Mondo, che quest’anno si terrà dal 16 al 21 ottobre, è una manifestazione che promuove la lingua italiana non solo come strumento di promozione del nostro eccezionale patrimonio culturale ma anche quale straordinario veicolo di comunicazione nel mondo dell’economia e dell’impresa, della sci...

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To mark Columbus Day, the Italian American community gathers in many cities around the US to celebrate its achievements and its contribution to this great country in all sectors — be it political, economic, cultural, scientific and beyond. President Donald Trump’s first Columbus Day proclamation highlighted the strong bonds of friendship between It...

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A statue of Christopher Columbus was covered Monday, Oct. 9. The statue, located in Los Angeles’ Grand Park, is located near the entrance of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse off Hill Street. A white cover now shrouds the statue, CBS LA reported. The display is now surrounded by a chain-link fence, which was set up for the monument. Officials in Los Ange...

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The attacks against Christopher Columbus are almost every day in the local and national news. Cities that decide to celebrate Indigenous Day instead of Columbus Day, statues vandalized, articles describing Columbus as guilty of genocide, angry people everywhere. Angry are also the Italian Americans, or at least the majority of them. We the Italian...

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