di Gabriele Scarfone   Un leggero sole bacia le enormi strade deserte della città degli angeli. Los Angeles, alle 7 del mattino di una pigra Domenica, sembra un campo di battaglia di una guerra appena conclusa. L'energia negativa e positiva che si percepisce rende il panorama tetro ma molto speranzoso.   Questa è una città complicata,...

by Luca Dell'Aquila   In occasione del mese italiano della Scienza, il Consolato Generale d'Italia in collaborazione con The Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation e l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles hanno organizzato negli spazi di quest'ultimo una serata dedicata all'esplorazione spaziale. In presenza del C...

An icon of Italian pop music worldwide, in her 20-year successful career, Laura Pausini has become a celebrated international artist with over 70 million albums sold since her debut at the Sanremo music festival in 1993, when she was only 18 years old.   Laura is also the first Italian artist ever to be awarded by Fimi (Italian Music Industr...

The Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles ApertaMente, Milano & i-ItalyTV, New York Under the Auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles present "MARINETTI A NEW YORK", A film by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory   When: TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015 @ 6:30 PMWhere: Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilga...

Julian Brooks, associate curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will talk about the Florentine Renaissance master Andrea Del Sarto (1486-1530), the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Getty and at the Frick Collection, New York, that brings into focus the artist's inventiveness, creative process, and workshop practice.   More...

"Cucina povera" and "alta cucina" may be apples and oranges (or rather mele e arance), but we Americans adore them just the same—indeed more than any other foreign cuisine, according to recent reports.   These 20 best Italian restaurants in America—which stretch from the best restaurants in Miami in the south right up to San Francisco's best...

by Nicholas Slayton   The El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument offers a number of attractions. Visitors can stroll down Olvera Street and buy kitschy goods, check out the city's oldest building or grab a meal at one of the area's Mexican restaurants. They can inspect the monuments to the city's founding in 1781, drop by the Chinese A...

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will return to the United States for a select run of concerts in 2013 as he drums up support for his recently released "Passione." "Passione" is a collection of Mediterranean love songs featuring duets with global pop stars Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado and the late Edith Piaf. The legendary singer is the biggest sell...

Raoul Bova e il tenore Vittorio Grigolo sono le "Italian icons 2015" premiate al Teatro Cinese di Hollywood nella decima edizione di «Los Angeles, Italia - Film, Fashion and Art Fest» (15-21 febbraio), festival promosso dall'Istituto Capri nel Mondo che accende i riflettori sul cinema italiano nella settimana che precede la notte degli Oscar. &nbs...

Annual conference of the California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies (CICIS) addressing the theme of the Sacred in Italy across time, place and discipline.   Key note speaker: Maurizio Viroli, University of Texas, Austin and University of Lugano.   Read more   Source: http://www.iiclosangeles.esteri.it/ &nb...