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Date: Monday, May 11, 2015 Hours: 5 PM Venue: UCLA Organized by: UCLA Department of Italian In collaboration with: IIC The UCLA Department of Italian will host poet Mario Moroni for a poetry reading. Mario Moroni was born in Italy in 1955. He moved to the United States in 1989. He has taught at Yale University, the University of Memphis, and C...

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Now that downtown L.A. (not all of L.A., just downtown) has been dubbed "America's Next Great City," it deserves more great pizza. Enter Pellicola Pizzeria at 8th and Hill streets, serving crisp, thin-crusted pies marrying New York and Neapolitan styles.   The sleek, mezzanined glass box of a restaurant, where you can get pies whole or by th...

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E' morto Ken Venturi, celebre professionista di golf degli anni '50 e '60, ex campione italoamericano degli Us Open. Aveva 82 anni. Era stato ammesso nella All of Fame mondiale di golf. Da giocatore vinse 14 titoli del circuito Pga, ma divento' famoso per la vittoria agli Us Open del 1964, l'unico 'major' vinto in carriera: trionfo' dopo essere qua...

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Get your napkins ready! The Italian Feast of San Gennaro, celebration in Los Angeles is right around the corner. Official festivities take place at the Hollywood and Highland complex September 27- 29th   For Italian Americans it's an important deal, that celebrates their Italio-American heritage more than the Italian Saint's martyrdom....

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Founded in 1977, and currently chaired by Senior Appellate Attorney Rebecca A. Delfino, the Italian American Lawyers Association is committed to foster social and professional connections among lawyers and judges, as well as to promote and participate in community activities.   Reflecting the authentic Italian spirit, the Association is extr...

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Via Nowness.com, I came across a beautiful little (three-minute-plus) film about Chi Spacca, ("cleaver") the new Mario Batali et al restaurant next door to Osteria Mozza on Melrose Avenue.   If you haven't been, go. This is a restaurant where Chad Colby, who's responsible for all those fabulous family-style pig dinners at Scuola di Pizza, sh...

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The Palazzo Strozzi High School Renaissance Award winners will be recognized by the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA . The mission of the foundation is to preserve the values of openness and creativity of the Renaissance, one of the foundations of the Enlightenment and of modern Western societies.   The winners of the competition travel to Ita...

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Roma - Con l'intervento alla convention dei Cavalieri di Colombo, davanti a una platea di oltre duemila delegati provenienti da tutti gli Stati Uniti e ad altri ospiti internazionali, ha avuto inizio la missione del sindaco Gianni Alemanno a Los Angeles e San Francisco. L'intervento del sindaco ha ripercorso la quasi centenaria relazione tra la com...

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Nowadays we constantly hear of the brain drain, of young people without hope who are forced to leave Italy in search of a fortune they can't find at home.   But this is not the case of Lorenzo Thione, native of Como and now living in California. He is 35 and the creator of Bing search engine. Interviewed by Roberto Bonzio, journalist and aut...

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Born Claudia Lagona, Levante's life is a trajectory between Italy's two most fertile music scenes: Catania and Turin. Levante will make her US debut at SXSW, the world's leading music industry event, taking place March 17 – 21, 2015 in Austin, TX. Showcase dates follow on Monday March 23 in Los Angeles at Genghis Cohen, and on Wednesday March 25 a...

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