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Cinema Italian Style is known for being a dynamic film festival showcasing the top new Italian films from emerging filmmakers and seasoned masters alike. Seven narrative feature films—including dramas, comedies, and a mystery— were screened at this year’s festival, highlighting …

The Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri Tour and Top Italian Wines Roadshow returned to the US  featuring top Italian wineries and their awarded wines. The “Tre Bicchieri” (“three glasses”) designation proves excellence and high quality among brands, opening up opportunities for …

When award-winning vintner Bob Betz was young, he wanted to be a doctor. But when he graduated in 1970 from the University of Washington and applied to medical school, he was wait-listed. It was a setback, of course, but Betz …

The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles welcomes its new director, Emanuele Amendola. He takes up the position after having held the same in Washington, since 2017. There, he organized and curated a wide cultural offer in coordination with the …

The city of Los Angeles celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Italian director Pierpaolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922) with an integral retrospective entitled Carnal knowledge: the films of Pierpaolo Pasolini. Born from the collaboration between Cinecittà and …

Natalia Di Pietrantonio has devoted her career to South Asian art but her family comes from very different parts of the world — her father is from Italy and her mother from Mexico. Attracted by art from an early age, Di …

When Italians found their way to the Pacific Northwest at the beginning of the 20th century, it was often to work in the coal mines, help build the railroads, or take on “pick and shovel” work as part of a …

The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles has officially opened a new exhibition, Woven Lives: Exploring Women’s Needlework from the Italian Diaspora, which examines the significance of needlework in the lives of Italian-American women, their families, and communities from the …

Mild or spicy, made with fennel, anise or garlic, there’s nothing like a delicious Italian sausage. Just ask the Verone family, who has been in the sausage business for nearly 100 years. The company was started in 1923 by Joe …

Envision a little boy, named Angelo, walking into the local theater of a little town in Northern Italy. His mom is there with him, holding hands while watching other kids dancing. The successful story of Angelo Greco, Principal Dancer at …