A perfect stage for a Sicilian Festival
di Alessandra Mastroianni San Diego's Sicilian American community invites everyone to "Eat, Drink & Be Sicilian" for a day as part of the 19th Annual SICILIAN FESTIVAL celebration in Little Italy, on Sunday, May 20, 2012, from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm. The highly popular FREE family event features authentic Sicilian food and entertainme...
San Diego Italian Community Section Returns
Benvenuto San Diego e ben tornato! Welcome San Diego and welcome back to the L'Italo-Americano Italian Community section where we are particularly excited to have your dedicated section back in print. Community is a vital and important value to Italians. With the addition of San Diego, the Golden State is now complete with the trifecta of major ci...
Festa della Repubblica 2013 – Gli italiani festeggiano dove sorgeva Little Italy
by Alessandra Mastroianni 2 giugno. È festa anche oltreoceano e anche qui a Los Angeles, dove la comunità italiana è particolarmente numerosa. Anche quest'anno Istituzioni e cittadini hanno voluto ricordare quel giorno del 1946 in cui con un referendum gli italiani scelsero la Repubblica. Festa quindi a Pico House, una delle strutture più...
Italian exhibit opens this weekend
The Tulare County Museum is set to celebrate its newest exhibit at the Tulare County Farm Labor and Agriculture Museum. The Tulare County Farm Labor and Agriculture Museum, located in Mooney Grove Park, will host the reception in honor of the opening of the new exhibit: Passion Produces Excellence: Commemorating Italian Experiences in Tula...
The D.I.V.E. of Los Angeles welcomed Consul General Antonio Verde
A group of smart, beautiful, and socially active women, the D.I.V.E. of Los Angeles invited a guest of honor to their November meeting: Consul General of Italy Antonio Verde. His mandate in the U.S. has just begun, and all of the most influential associations of the local Italian-American community are eager to know him better. The extreme...
Joseph Gatto's shooting death stuns neighbors, artistic community
By Kate Mather and Ari Bloomekatz Joseph Gatto was a fixture in the quiet Silver Lake neighborhood he had long called home. Friends knew the 78-year-old father of state Assemblyman Mike Gatto as an easy person to talk to, a well-liked artist who spent decades teaching at schools across Los Angeles. He was a patriarch — not ju...
The Pisan Romanesque: art contest with prizes - February 25, 2015 at 5:30 PM
The Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco and the Italian Cultural Institute will present an art competition for high-school pupils. The Società Storica Pisana (Pisa's History Society, Italy) invites classes in grades 9 to 12 from high schools in San Francisco and New York to submit original artwork inspired (in terms of similitude o...
Andrea Bocelli Tickets Up For Grab
by Mauro Battocchi Donating to the Italian Center of Northern California has the double impact of not only supporting an institution with a legacy of Italian cultural and heritage, but also could put two tickets in your hands to see Andrea Bocelli in Sacramento on Wednesday June 10, 2015 at 7:30pm. Promoters expect droves of fans...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia tackles the Constitution at Santa Clara University
By Katie Nelson If there was one phrase Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia could eliminate from our vocabulary, it would be "living constitution." "God, I hate that phrase," Scalia said. "I prefer 'enduring Constitution.' " Scalia spoke to a full house at Santa Clara University on Wednesday, a place familiar to the nearly 30-ye...
Opening Rossini Opera Summer Series: L’Italiana in Algeri
When: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 At 6:00 pmWhere: Italian Cultural Institute of LA, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles,CA 90024 Organized by : IIC & Rossini Opera Festival - Entrance : Free. RSVP mandatory. RSVP HERE L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers, 2013, 153 min) is the first opera of this special screening series...
Lorenzo Ortona nuovo Console Generale a San Francisco: il messaggio ai connazionali
Prima settimana a San Francisco per Lorenzo Ortona, che da lunedì scorso, 19 settembre, ha assunto le funzioni di Console Generale. "Mi sento profondamente onorato di poter rappresentare l'Italia a San Francisco e nel quadrante nord-occidentale degli Stati Uniti", scrive Ortona nel suo primo messaggio ai connazionali. "Sento la grande comples...
L.A. Meets Ambassador Varricchio and His Contagious Optimism
The recently appointed Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Armando Varricchio was born in Venice, Italy, but completed his MA (summa cum laude) in International Relations at the prestigious University of Padua. Appointed, on December 2013, with the highest ranking honor of "Grand Officer of the Order of merit of the Republic of Italy...