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Tommy Lasorda spent his life prophesying his death. His most famous sayings, the wisecracks that he repeated until they became Dodgers lore, were all about mortality: the flesh and the divine. If you were to slit his wrists, Lasorda said a million times, he would bleed Dodger blue. Examine his heart, which doctors did after he suffered coronaries i...

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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is assembling a star-studded cast for its opening gala in September. Italian screen legend Sophia Loren and independent filmmaker Haile Gerima will be honored with special awards, and Tom Hanks, Annette Bening and Bob Iger are being saluted for their efforts to raise $388 million for the long gestating museum,...

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Ale Gambini, known as A Queen in the Kitchen, is an Italian food ambassador in Los Angeles, writer, award-winning online program host and cooking teacher. Born and raised in Northern Italy, in beautiful Milan, she learned to cook and love good food from her beloved grandmother, Nonna Fernanda. Ale has taught hundreds of food lovers about authentic...

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I am very happy to participate to the Filming Italy Los Angeles Festival, which has brought me so much luck.” With these words Claudia Gerini, godmother for the second consecutive year of the well-known film festival, sends her personal wishes to the event, which will be held from March 18 to 21, 2021 in Los Angeles. The festival will be 90% in vir...

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Tour virtuale di una mostra collettiva organizzata presso Magazzeno Art Gallery che ha sede in un palazzo del 1836 del centro storico di Ravenna , a pochi passi dalla tomba del sommo poeta. Per l’occasione, sono state selezionate circa 30 opere facenti parte delle prime 4 edizioni di Dante Plus, mostra collettiva sul volto di Dante Alighieri. Intro...

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The sixth edition of Filming Italy - Los Angeles, presented with the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, will take place from March 18th to 21st, 2021 in Los Angeles with 90% streaming, in collaboration with APA (Audiovisual Producers Association) and under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles. Created and organized...

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Nine Italian citizens, all survivors of Auschwitz, shared their stories and these stories, alternating with personal and historical photographs and archive images from 1945, resulted in a documentary about the imprisonment in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Andra Bucci, Esterina, Calò Di Veroli, Nedo Fiano, Luciana Nissim Momigliano, Liliana Segr...

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Lysippus modelled Alexander’s daring and his whole form. How great is the power of this bronze! The brazen king seems to be gazing at Zeus and about to say: “I set Earth under my feet; thyself, Zeus, possess Olympus.” — An epigramby Asclepiades As I sit down to write, I realise that this piece can go in different directions: three at least. One, it...

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When: Wednesday, March 03, 2021 At 5:00 pm - Organized by : UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies In collaboration with : IIC Los Angeles - Entrance : Free Professor Andrea Moudarres, UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, discusses his recent book, The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic. Images of Hostility from...

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He started making music when he was six, even though no one in his family was a professional musician. Growing up, Francesco Le Metre had always music around him, but as a kid he had no idea it was going to become his career. “I started playing piano and then eventually switched over to drums and lastly electric bass,” the Sicilian composer, now 30...

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