It was just like old times at the 40th anniversary celebration for John's Garden restaurant on June 28. John Musante, who just celebrated his 96th birthday the day before, and his son Jim, who ran the business until 2012, joined current owner Boyen Kinov, trading stories and anecdotes with old and new friends and customers at Malibu County Mar...

The San Diego Italian Film Festival, working with UCSD Italian Studies and Ethnic Studies, and SDSU Italian Studies, will mark February by celebrating Black History Month. And all of this is so that we can get closer to the culture we love, so that we can understand better and know more about this special way of living and relating that is part of...

Piccolo Napoli is a brand new, family-run, Italian restaurant and pizzeria located in Orinda's Theatre Square. The restaurant is owned by Peter and Maria Eberle, who employ the services of their high school and college-aged children - when they are not busy with their many competitive sports.   Eberle, a local fellow who graduated from Miram...

E' andato tutto molto più velocemente del previsto, per l'ultima creatura di Fabrizio Capobianco, Top IdF Friend (protagonista della prima intervista Italiani di Frontiera, all'inizio dell'avventura californiana nel 2008) e figura di spicco degli italiani di Silicon Valley, dopo il successo della sua Funambol di cui oggi è presidente. Con un piacev...

by Luca Dell'Aquila   In occasione del mese italiano della Scienza, il Consolato Generale d'Italia in collaborazione con The Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation e l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles hanno organizzato negli spazi di quest'ultimo una serata dedicata all'esplorazione spaziale. In presenza del C...

Ciao, Amici - This year our Cinema Selection Committee chose three wonderful old movies, all comedies. In selecting these three movies, we wanted to present to our Santa Barbara audience how three famous Italian dramatic actresses actually started out in comic movies. And they are funny, lovely movies!   All movies are in Italian with Engli...

An icon of Italian pop music worldwide, in her 20-year successful career, Laura Pausini has become a celebrated international artist with over 70 million albums sold since her debut at the Sanremo music festival in 1993, when she was only 18 years old.   Laura is also the first Italian artist ever to be awarded by Fimi (Italian Music Industr...

The Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles ApertaMente, Milano & i-ItalyTV, New York Under the Auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles present "MARINETTI A NEW YORK", A film by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory   When: TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015 @ 6:30 PMWhere: Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilga...

Julian Brooks, associate curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will talk about the Florentine Renaissance master Andrea Del Sarto (1486-1530), the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Getty and at the Frick Collection, New York, that brings into focus the artist's inventiveness, creative process, and workshop practice.   More...

by Linda Zavoral   The venerable Paolo's, which in 1958 introduced then-agricultural San Jose to fine dining, is closing Aug. 8. Carolyn Allen, the daughter of owner and founding chef Jack Allen (born Giacchino Paolo Aiello), announced the news "with deep regret" on the restaurant's website Wednesday. "After six decades in downtown San...