Inside the Italian food warehouse every cook should know about
Beatrice Ughi’s Italian connection. Plus, obsessing over chicken rice, how to use extra pumpkin filling, where chefs eat on their night off and how food waste affects climate change. I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of L.A. Times Food, with this week’s Tasting Notes. Many people are spending Black Friday weekend on the websites of big-box retailer...
Ferrari Challenge North America Releases 2025 Schedule
Ferrari Challenge North America revealed its schedule for the 2025 season, featuring familiar venues from 2024, in addition to an exciting new addition and a popular stop from years’ past. The calendar reveal comes amidst an exciting first year of global competition for the Ferrari 296 Challenge racecar, which has been confirmed as the series’ excl...
The Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco 2.0 – 2024 remodeling
Design, Innovation and Sustainability are the key elements of the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco Remodeling 2024. Leveraging on the recent works on some structural parts of the building, made possible thanks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, the project of the remodeling of the CG has been conce...
Fiat 500 Giorgio Armani Edition Will Appeal To LA’s Fashionistas
We’re days away from the Los Angeles Auto Show and Fiat has quietly confirmed plans to introduce the 500e Giorgio Armani special edition. A debut is scheduled for tomorrow and the model will arrive early next year in limited numbers.While the automaker only released a handful of details, their latest ‘product drop’ isn’t much of a surprise as the E...
Italian roots, local revival: Ermanno Carbonara, the Italian conservator reviving the Watts Towers
The Watts Towers are an extraordinary symbol of immigrant resilience and artistic ambition and are, today, one of Los Angeles’ most beloved and unique landmarks. Conceived and built over three decades by Italian immigrant Sabato “Simon” Rodia, the Towers capture the cultural fusion of his Italian roots with the creative and lively world of Los Ange...
Wireless Innovator Gerard J. “Jerry” Foschini Remembered Bell Labs’ researcher will be honored at L.A.’s Italian American Museum
IEEE Life Fellow Gerard J. “Jerry” Foschini, a Bell Labs researcher for more than 50 years, died on 17 September, 2023, at the age of 83. Foschini made groundbreaking contributions to the field of wireless communications that improved the quality of networks and paved the way for several important IEEE standards. In the early 1990s he helped to dev...
Creative Minds: Italian American Inventors and Innovators
Creative Minds: Italian American Inventors and Innovators. On view November 2024 – October 2025. Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA) - 644 North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA. From the jacuzzi and the telephone to the nuclear reactor and the Big Mac, Italian American inventors and innovators have impacted our lives in ways great and small...
The Art of Living / Living With The Art | In Conversation with Designer Roberto Palomba
“It all starts with the handprint. In the cave, this early human, she dips her hand in the paint, she makes a mark, and then shows the others how to do it too. That is the first family portrait, and also marks the beginning of design - art - everything.” And so it was with this foundational moment of humanity’s desire to personalise the spaces we i...
Discover Italian Beauty’s Newest Innovations At Beauty Made In Italy!
Ciao! The Italian Trade Agency is teaming up with Cosmetica Italia – The Personal Care Association and Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna next week. Together, the trio will present the best of Italian beauty at “Beauty Made In Italy—What’s New/What’s Next!” Held on October 25 at the West Hollywood EDITION in Los Angeles, “Beauty Made In Italy” will showca...
A conversation with architect Roberto Palomba: Living with the art / The art of living
Thursday October 10 2024, 18:00 (Local time). Lualdi - 8784 Beverly Blvd, West Hollywood – CA. Presented as part of Giornata del Contemporaneo (Italian Contemporary Art Day) and the Italian Design Day. Seriality and uniqueness. The connection between these two concepts defines what is contemporary. As design increasingly intersects with art, we are...
How Giving Back Shaped the Life and Success of Philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem
Some look back at her role as Ambassador of the Made in Italy in America; some others appreciate her entrepreneurial spirit; many experienced first-hand her philanthropic work. Everybody knows her as the woman who has touched not only people’s lives, but also the arts, education, medical research, and culture. So far, Maria Manetti Shrem‘s journey...
Intesa Sanpaolo takes the 12 most innovative Italian start-ups of Up2stars to Silicon Valley international drive to "Made in Italy" thanks to the collaboration with Innovit
Intesa Sanpaolo is promoting an exclusive acceleration programme in Silicon Valley for 12 innovative Italian start-ups in collaboration with INNOVIT (Italian Innovation and Culture Hub) and Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center. A journey of mutual acquaintance and full of meetings with potential investors, which took place over the past few days in S...