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Little Studio Films, a Los Angeles based production, distribution and representation company owned by Alexandra Yacovlef and Alexia Melocchi, have signed the accomplished Italian directing and producing team of Luca Boni and Marco Ristori for representation and a series of Hollywood projects. Little Studio Films will introduce Boni and Ristori and...

di Mariella Salvatori   La Befana vien di notte... la Delegazione di Los Angeles, a conclusione delle celebrazioni natalizie, ha voluto iniziare il 2016 con una cena dedicata alla Befana, cioe' ad una festa tipicamente italiana e praticamente sconosciuta negli USA. Proprio per colmare questo gap da parte americana, la simposiarca nonche...

There was no better way to celebrate Phil Rizzuto's birthday than in the company of San Diego's finest news crew at CBS Channel 8 and renowned sports artist Christopher Paluso. On September 25th, CBS News Anchor Carlo Cecchetto hosted the grand opening evening celebration of the new exhibition Artists' Tribute to Italian Americans in Baseball after...

When you think of Italians and music, you might just think of the great opera composers, Verdi, Pucchini, Rossini, or the powerful voices of Caruso, Pavarotti or Bartoli. Perhaps your mind fills with the smooth sound of Sinatra and Martin but that is only part of our history. What if I told you Italians also made the best toe tapping, boot scooting...

The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles cordially invite you to the presentation of the book "Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development". Edited by Luisa Del Giudice (NY: Fordham University Press, 2014) it represents a tour de force culmination of the last five years of activity around the extraordinary Watts Towers,...

di Roberto Bonzio   "Arriva un momento in cui il funzionamento della macchina diventa così odioso, ti rende così infelice che non puoi più farne parte, non puoi farne parte nemmeno passivamente. E devi mettere il tuo corpo sugli ingranaggi, sulle ruote, sulle leve, su tutto l'apparato, e devi farla fermare. E devi mostrare alle persone che l...

Robert Mondavi was always convinced that California's wines could compete with the European heavy weights and he set out to prove it.   In 1966, Robert Mondavi and his eldest son, R. Michael Mondavi, founded the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley, California. And today, the company has grown to international proportions, having embarked on...

Poetry and design meet in this unique volume that is also a tribute to two of the leading characters in these artistic fields -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Armando Milani.   Fifty poems from Mr. Ferlinghetti's body of work are on the left pages of this finely crafted hardcover edition, accompanied on the right pages by fifty images created by...

Il Console Generale di Los Angeles, il 3 maggio scorso presso l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura, ha conferito all'attore Joe Mantegna il Premio dell'"Eccellenza Italiana in America della Puglia".   L'evento è stato organizzato in collaborazione tra l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura e il Center of America, la cui missione consiste nella promozione...

Sunday, June 2 | 3:00 p.m. - Harold M. Williams Auditorium FREE, reservations recommended. Call (310) 440-7300 or visit getty.edu   On the eve of the Allied invasion of Italy in August 1943, Allied bombs threatened Michelangelo's David and nearly destroyed Leonardo's Last Supper. This is the true story of the race to save great masterp...

One of the most important events of the year for all those who share a passion for Italy and the Italian language is coming up on Thursday, December 17, 2015, from 6:30 pm at the ACT Strand Theater (1127 Market St. San Francisco). Renowned Italian director and actor, Massimiliano Finazzer Flory will bring Leonardo da Vinci to life again on stage in...

The eighth-annual Taste of Italy, an evening of authentic Italian food and wine to benefit the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), will take place on October 1st in downtown Los Angeles. Taste of Italy showcases over 35 of the region's best restaurants, Italian and California-Italian wineries, as well as live entertainment, chef de...