Get to Know: Marco Belinelli
by Alex Kramers A sharpshooting swingman with a knack for stepping up at crucial junctures, Marco Belinelli is an undoubtedly welcome addition to a Sacramento squad that ranked 28th in both three-point makes (461) and attempts (1,350) and 20th in three-point percentage (34.1) in 2014-15. The ninth-year pro placed fifth in the League in do...
Meet Italian Rugby Team and Italian Heritage night with the Quakes!
Just Announced!!! Come meet members of the Italian Rugby team in Little Italy San Jose! Thursday June 16th at 5pm take photos and get Autographs with members of the Italian National team at Paesano Ristorante. Buy your tickets now for the USA vs Italy Rugby match at Avaya Stadium on Saturday June 18th at usarugby.org/tickets or buy them in person o...
Two Contemporary Italian Pocket Operas
Pianists Anthony Porter and Sarah Cahill, Soprano Amy Foote, and Bass Richard Mix present an evening of Italian contemporary pocket operas suspended in between the humorous and the apocalyptic. Featured works are Fabrizio de Rossi Re's King Kong, amore mio (King Kong, My Love; 2011), on a libretto by Luis Gabriel Santiago, and the wor...
Laura Bispuri Wins New Directors Prize at San Francisco Int’l Film Festival
by Mauro Battocchi Good news for the new Italian cinema in San Francisco: after winning the Tribeca Film Fest's Nora Ephron Prize in New York City, Laura Bispuri has just won the Golden Gate Awards New Directors Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival - $ 10,000 in cash - for her Sworn Virgin. The jury was composed of produc...
Italian Opera Night
martedì 16 aprile 201317.30 Regency Theater26762 Verdugo Street, San Juan Capistrano, CA (map) In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles you are invited to celebrate The Year of Italian Culture AND the great Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday with a special presentation of Nabucco at the San Juan Capistrano Regency Theater!...
Edoardo Ponti - Working between Italy and the US
By Alessandra Mastroianni Dolomites soar in Edoardo Ponti's last film. These harsh and intimidating mountains at first sight, become the finishing line of a journey towards a new life. "The Night Shift Belongs to the Stars" is a short film based on an original story by Erri De Luca. In less than 30 minutes, director Edoardo Ponti...
Still capable of thrilling the audience, Cinema Paradiso triumphantly returns to Hollywood
by Marco Bruna "When my friends at Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Cineteca di Bologna, and Dolce&Gabbana said they wanted to restore Cinema Paradiso, I was incredulous: "Thank you, but the film has just been released, why would you restore it?" Twenty-six years have passed since Giuseppe Tornatore's most appreciated film debuted in...
Lidia Bastianich sets a table for everyone in PBS special
Actors, directors and producers love tossing around the most overused word in Hollywood, "organic," to describe how naturally a project progressed. Yet few people are less slickly Hollywood than chef Lidia Bastianich on the least Hollywood network, PBS. Her PBS special "Lidia Celebrates America: Holiday Tables and Traditions" Tuesday, Dec. 20 (che...
Films Al Fresco brings Italian cinema to San Diego
By Glenn Heath Jr. Thanks to Convivio, a nonprofit seeking to be "San Diego's premier Italian cultural organization," locals will get a chance to see some of the best European imports of recent years. The series is entitled "Films Al Fresco," which debuts Saturday, June 13, at The Lafayette Hotel in North Park with an opening night presentation of...
Dentro lo Juventus Club della Silicon Valley, tra pizzaioli e boss di Apple
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...
James Fiorentino contributes to Italian American baseball exhibit in San Diego’s Little Italy
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...
Alessandra Palazzotti and her Italian Delegation at the Special Olympics in L.A.
by Valerio Viale The 2015 Special Olympics World Games, hosted in Los Angeles from July 25 to August 2, is the largest sports and humanitarian event worldwide this year and the single biggest event in Los Angeles since the 1984 Olympic Games, with 6,500 athletes and 2,000 coaches, along with 30,000 volunteers and an estimated 500,000 spect...