On February 17, an exciting new exhibit opened at Casa Italiana, NYU. Dedicated to various talented artists inspired by De Chirico's school, it will be on view until March 11
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Art & CultureOctober 16-November 7. The San Diego Italian Film Festival (SDIFF) has an ambitious goal: To make San Diego a high spot for Italian culture. They show great, award-winning, recent Italian movies, all with interesting stories of relationships, love, hate, work, food, identity, all the passions of life. Two of the SDIFF founders, Roberto Ruocco and Victor Laruccia, tell i-Italy how they started and where they are headed.
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Frankie Competelli, born on New York City’s renowned Mulberry Street in Little Italy, is one of those pioneers who helped bring the Feast of San Gennaro to L.A. While they were celebrating its 8th edition late last month, October was being proclaimed as Italian Heritage Month by the City of Los Angeles, the fifth metropolitan area in the US with the highest number of Italians.
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An informal meeting with Larry Guidi, the Italian-American mayor of Hawthorne, a city just outside of Los Angeles. “I am proud of my heritage. Everyone knows that I am an Italian mayor.”
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A little diddy about California’s role in the Italian American invention of an ice-resurfacing machine.
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The cult of Italy repackaged for US consumer culture.
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Driving for hours takes us to three California Italian American vernacular sites -- from urban LA to rural NorCal with a stop along the freeway in the Central Valley.
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America's oldest Italian newspaper celebrates its first century
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“I no need to come in America. That's my mother's, my father's fault.” -- Sam Rodia Sam Rodia is the son of Italian-American immigrants hailing from Serino, a small town in the province of Avellino, who reached Los Angeles at the end of the 1800s. After a failed marriage, a passionate love for the wine bottle, a job as a miner, and a harsh love-hate relationship with his adoptive country, Sam reinvents himself. After all this work, a fall from one of the towers, and two days of continuous sleep, Sam leaves everything behind and moves to his relatives’ house in nearby Martinez.
