The wild popularity of comedic duo Terence Hill and Bud Spencer from 1970's "They Call Me Trinity" transformed the traditionally violent Spaghetti Western genre into G-rated slapstick parodies.   With the demise of the once gritty, hard-hitting, and often excessive, violence from Italian westerns, filmmakers found a new home for gunfights an...

Antonia Lofaso is chef and partner at Scopa Italian Roots in Venice and at Black Market Liquor Bar in Studio City, but she started her culinary career making corn dogs at Hot Dog on a Stick in the Sherman Oaks Galleria and as a host at Chin Chin in Studio City. Before graduating from the French Culinary Institute in New York City, she was also a ma...

Acting workshop with Director Fernando J. Scarpa January 29- March 19Tue, 6-9 PMItalian Cultural Institute1023 Hilgard Ave Los Angeles, CA 90024 Award-winning Italian director Fernando J. Scarpa has worked in numerous plays, movies and TV productions throughout Europe and the U.S. He successfully teaches courses at UCLA Extension and produces and...

Bridges to Italy, a Los Angeles-based non-profit association with a chapter in Calabria and an office in Rome presents the first-ever Italian Pitch Fest.   This event is held in collaboration with Santa Monica New Tech, a SoCal community group of 2,000+ entrepreneurs who create and showcase new technology to tech-interested public, including...

The Auto Gallery Maserati, the premier Los Angeles Maserati dealer, has unveiled the all new 2014 Maserati Quattroporte.   The muscular luxury vehicle features a twin-turbocharged 3.8 liter V-8 designed by Maserati and built by Ferrari. This precisely engineered engine is the most powerful offered by Maserati and allows the Quattroporte to a...

On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth, the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, Master Films Productions and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies cordially invite you to a special screening of DANTE'S INFERNO and DANTE'S HELL ANIMATED by Boris Acosta Tuesday, February 10, 2015* ,&...

by Lyra Kilston Dr. Davide Gasparotto arrived at the Getty Museum a few months ago from Modena, Italy, where he was the director of the Galleria Estense, a museum of Italian paintings from the 14th to 18th centuries. Gasparotto formerly served as curator at the National Gallery in Parma, and was a visiting fellow at both the Center for Advanced St...

WTI Magazine #5    2013 Nov, 15 Author : Cinema Italian Style Los Angeles      Translation by:   This week Luce Cinecitta & American Cinematheque present "Cinema Italian Style" an annual film series that brings the best of new Italian cinema to Los Angeles for premieres. This year ten new films will be shown, in...

L'arte italiana a Los Angeles diventa 2.0. Il merito e' di una nuova applicazione, "Italy Art LA" e del relativo sito web (www.italyartla.com), che permetteranno agli utenti di scoprire l'arte italiana nella citta' californiana grazie a un sistema basato sulla geolocalizzazione e attraverso una varieta' di strumenti, quali una piantina personalizza...

January 21, 2015 - Wednesday 7:00 PM - 9:30 PMThe Ebell of Los Angeles - 743 S. Lucerne Boulevard - Los Angeles, California 90005: Old World vs New World: Italian Style Comparing traditional Italian wines to their newfangled California cousins. Our California climate is very similar to that of Italy so the early Italian immigr...