by Andrea Torng Critically acclaimed chef, Vic Casanova, unveils his highly anticipated second restaurant, Pistola, tomorrow, September 24th, on LA's West 3rd Street. Teaming up with seasoned FOH veteran, Seth Glassman, the duo's modern Italian Steakhouse is a nostalgic tribute to Italian comfort food, balancing refreshed culinary cues fro...
READ MOREThe sixth-annual Taste of Italy, a cultural-gastronomic event to benefit the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), will take place on October 11th in downtown Los Angeles. Taste of Italy showcases over fifty of the region's best restaurants and Italian and California-Italian wineries, as well as music entertainment, cooking demon...
READ MOREKenny Lombino was announced as the 13th President of the Ferrari Club of America Southwest Region at an FCA board meeting held earlier this year, a position he will hold for the next two years through 2017. In his first President's Message, Lombino stated that he "would first like to thank the Board of Directors for bestowing on me this great...
READ MOREUnder the auspices of the CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY IN LOS ANGELES with the support of REGIONE VENETO THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE in collaboration with THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TOURIST BOARD is pleased to invite you to Cortina's Day
READ MOREFor most of his life, professional surfer Chris Del Moro has probably spent as much time in the water as on land. When he was just three, while most kids were learning how to swim, he was riding his boogie board on the shores of both the Pacific and the Mediterranean; by the time he was a teen, he began to surf around the world. From Indon...
READ MOREDate: Sunday, September 27, 2015 Hours: www.wattstowers.org Venue: Watts, CA Organized by: Watts Towers Arts Center and IIC The Jasmine Tommaso Quintet that includes Jasmine's father, Giovanni Tommaso at the contrabass, represents Italy at the prestigious Festival that pays tribute to the American music forms of jazz, gospel and R&B...
READ MOREDomenica scorsa, 2 dicembre, la Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West ha celebrato i 25 anni dalla sua fondazione con un evento presso il ristorante "Valentino" di Santa Monica. La sede di Los Angeles è nata nel 1988 da un'idea dell'allora presidente del Comites Pier Giorgio Luciani e del Presidente dell'Unione della Camere di Commercio Italiane...
READ MOREWednesday, October 29 The Watts Towers — a complex of multistoried structures decorated in pique assiette — were created over the course of three decades by a determined artist, Sabato "Sam" Rodia, an Italian immigrant laborer who wanted to do "something big" and ended up creating an internationally renowned architectural wonder. Featurin...
READ MOREThe latest luxury retailer to join the scene in downtown Manhattan Beach is Italian jewelry boutique Roberto Coin, which celebrated its grand opening on Thursday, Oct. 29 with a soiree hosted by Roberto Coin president Peter Webster and actress Elisabeth Rohm, who stars alongside Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in the upcoming film, Joy.  ...
READ MOREFedrigoni, an international group for manufacturing and converting of premium specialty papers and substrates, announces the expansion of Arconvert with a new facility in the US. Arconvert, part of Fedrigoni Group, is a manufacturing company that produces an extensive range of self-adhesive papers and films for flexographic...
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