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The Pasadena Tournament of Roses has named Naomi Stillitano as the 105th Rose Queen® at the Announcement and Coronation ceremony presented by Citizens Business Bank. The 2024 Tournament of Roses President Alex Aghajanian made the announcement on the front steps of Tournament House in Pasadena. The first Rose Queen was announced in 1905, and for mor...

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Arcadia Senior Naomi Stillitano was crowned the 135th Rose Queen in a ceremony on the front steps of the Tournament House in Pasadena Friday afternoon led by 2024 Tournament of Roses President Alex Aghajanian. During the coronation ceremony, President Aghajanian presented Rose Queen Naomi Stillitano with a Mikimoto crown featuring more than 600 cul...

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In Italian, the word for egg is “uovo.” It’s also the name of a new restaurant in town. Opening its doors on Aug. 11 in The Commons on South Lake Avenue, Uovo is a sophisticated Italian trattoria that specializes in handmade fresh pasta from Italy. When we say, “from Italy,” we mean fresh pasta made by hand and shipped fresh daily to Los Angeles fr...

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It’s a sandwich, salad and coffee café drenched in Italian folklore. A small space with an abundance of personality. Take some time to read the extensive sandwich menu board. It’s entertainment itself. All the Sandwiches are named after characters from the Godfather movies, The Soprano’s T.V. series as well as the actors and directors. I usually pi...

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When Ensemble Sangineto, Italy’s most popular folk music group, takes the stage on Wednesday, May 3, at Pacific Harps, expect to be surprised — and delighted. Surprised by what, Italian folk music? Isn’t that full of mandolins and accordions and people dancing the tarantella? No, signore e signori, not when Ensemble Sangineto is making la musica. T...

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Fabulous Veneto is a network of companies operating throughout the Veneto region, at different levels, in the tourism and production sectors. The organization's goal is to promote the territory and its artistic and natural riches, including its cities of art, the Venetian Villas, the Dolomites and much more. All unique experiences that urgently nee...

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Half a millennium after Leonardo da Vinci explained gravity, engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) discovered that his understanding of the phenomenon – while not entirely accurate – was centuries ahead of his time. Despite limited tools, the great Italian thinker displayed ingenious problem-solving. In an article just publi...

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Owners Nader Kaiser and Gustavo Landgrebe had a vision when opening their Italian restaurant, Marina Pasadena, in September: to create a neighborhood gathering place where customers can enjoy good wine and flavorful food.“It’s not just the simplicity of ingredients, but the quality of the ingredients,” Kaiser said. “We are honoring the beauty of It...

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I have spent my life in this corner. Sometimes when I spend a lot of time working in the back and my customers don’t see me in the store, they get worried. When I arrived in the 1950s it was all countryside, there was no other store but only orange and lemon trees, just like in Sicily.” The corner Rosario Mazzeo is talking about is the one between...

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Nearly a decade ago, about an impressive then-new restaurant called Crossings, which was located at 1010 Mission St. in South Pasadena, I wrote this: “Situated in an historic South Pas red brick building adjacent to a Metro Gold Line Station, this spacious New American has chef Lalo Sanchez (from nearby Parkway Grill) in the kitchen turning out ups...

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