The Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission would like to extend an invitation to join us for a special conversation/dialogue with members of the Los Angeles Indigenous Community and Italian American Community to discuss the Motion introduced by Council Member Mitch O'Farrell that proposes to establish an Indigenous People's Day Celebration. &...

The fourth-annual Taste of Italy, a cultural-gastronomic event to benefit the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), will take place at the historic museum on Saturday, October 12, 5-10 p.m., in downtown Los Angeles. In collaboration with the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West, it will showcase more than 50 of the region's winerie...

By Andy Wang   One thing Los Angeles might not fully understand about chef Stephen Kalt, who just opened up modern Italian restaurant Spartina on Melrose Avenue, is how much of an OG New York culinary cat he really was. He cooked under Daniel Boulud and alongside a team including Jacques Torres atLe Cirque.   He went on to develo...

You'd be forgiven for wanting to reach out the passenger window of your car and touch the Da Vinci, the newest downtown apartment complex from G.H. Palmer Associates. Built dead against the transition from the 110 to the 101 and opening early next year, it is massive in scale, with medieval brick buttresses surmounted by Italianate dingbats.  ...

If you had a normal first conversation with Michael Benzaia, he would tell you that he is just a regular Italian-American guy from New York. However, as someone who is both an actor/television personality and a CT/XR Technologist at Resolution Imaging in Santa Monica, he is living the LA life in a most unique way.   "I might be the only CT/X...

di Fabio Grilli   Finisce in un lungo applauso, la conferenza stampa che Special Olympics Italia, ha organizzato al Salone d'Onore del CONI. L'occasione era di quelle importanti, che capitano infatti soltanto una volta ogni quattro anni.   Tanti ne serviranno per partecipare alla prossima edizone dei Giochi Mondiali Estivi, la manifes...

Italy comes to college next week for the fourth annual "Il Cinema Ritrovato: Rediscovered Film" festival, a series of free film screenings at Loyola Marymount University.   Masterpieces of Italian cinema recently restored by one of Italy's most esteemed film restoration and preservation archives, Cineteca di Bologna, will be screened at LMU'...

Sixty years ago Anna Magnani won an Oscar for Best Actress for The Rose Tattoo, starring Burt Lancaster, directed by Daniel Mann. The Istituto Luce-Cinecittà dedicated to a great actress retrospective, La Magnani, who is conquering New York and will involve other cities of the United States- Chicago, Detroit, Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, H...

Doppio riconoscimento per l'olio dop salernitano al "Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition'" premio internazionale che vede competere, ogni anno, centinaia di oli provenienti da Argentina, Australia, Cile, Francia, Grecia, Italia, Giappone, Marocco, Nuova Zelanda, Perù, Portogallo, Arabia Saudita, Slovenia, Sud Africa, Spagna...

This month in LA dining news: Freds at Barneys New York lets shoppers enjoy farm-to-table twists on American classics in an artfully rendered setting, Culina gets inspired by a new region of Italy every month, and more. The closing of Barney Greengrass earlier this year marked the end of an era, but the power lunch lives on at the new Freds at Bar...