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di Silvia Simonetti   Nancy Grando è una persona dolcissima e un'autentica cioccolataia. Grazie all'attività del padre e del suo futuro marito, Stefano Grando, originario di Bassano del Grappa in Veneto, nel settore dell'alta gioielleria artigianale, Nancy è sempre stata circondata da cose belle.   Allo stesso tempo, attorno a le...

Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 - Saturday, January 24, 2015 Hours: 10am - 5pm Venue: Herbert Morris Seminar Room 306 Organized by: UCLA dept. of Italian In collaboration with: IIC   The conference seeks to examine the experience of war as a seminal factor in the formation of identity within the Italian context and the ways this critical...

February 3, 2015 - Tuesday 6:00 PM - 9:00 PMClub Fugazi- Beach Blanket Babylon. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon - San Francisco, California 94133   Italian Community Services and BAIA (Business Association Italy America) join together to host a lively evening of networking and conversation about how Italian art and architecture has...

CEO Giuseppe Basso and Cristina Giubbetti, sales manager international productions, were touting key changes that among other things allow Cinecittà Studios to act as an Italian production service company.   The change means the 78-year-old Rome institution has shifted its position to not only provide a range of studio amenities and adviso...

As he has on most nights for the last 46 years, Nick Pecoraro was watching the world go by on Wednesday from the porch of his ornately embellished two-story house on India Street, right at the foot of the Little Italy sign. The Sicilian-born Pecoraro, 73, is a reigning member of the historic neighborhood's old guard, as much of a fixture as th...

di Lorenzo Mannella   Girando per Facebook ti puoi imbattere in cose davvero particolari. Per esempio, sapevate dell'esistenza di uno Juventus Club Silicon Valley? Già, se vivete in California e tifate per i bianconeri avete la possibilità di iscrivervi a un gruppo privato sul social network e mettervi d'accordo per guardare insieme le parti...

By Valerio Viale Are you familiar with those hardcore conservationists, paladins of our beautiful planet and its amazing variety of animals and plants, the likes of British primatologist Jane Goodall, late French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, Indian activist Vandana Shiva, or American former Vice President Al Gore?   Despite numerically U...

It was a great night the one at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, where the Puglia Center of America awarded Hollywood star Joe Mantegna with the Puglia's Italy Award of Excellence in America – Special Edition.   Almost 200 guests attended the evening, together with a delegation of the Comunità Pugliese della California. Several...

di Mauro Battocchi   This summer, take advantage of some great opportunities at UC Berkeley to dig deeper into Italian studies during the 2013 Year of Italian Culture! From Italian history to Italian cinema, there is something for everyone this summer. The courses are open to anyone and everyone with an interest in deepening their understand...

Chaperoned by his parents after just becoming a teenager, James Fiorentino took an artist's leap of faith by bringing a prized Joe DiMaggio painting he had done of the legendary Yankee great to an autograph show that DiMaggio was appearing at.   Fiorentino reminisced: "He was always tough at these things and usually didn't sign artwork. He l...

By Andy Stiny   A wreath of pink flowers floated away from Fisherman's Wharf on Saturday, in silent homage to the fishermen and their families who shaped an industry and carved new lives in a new world.   The wreath was tossed into the water by Festa Italia Queen Gina Pennisi, after her father, Mario, read the names of local fishermen...

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