This would be Filippo

On the big screen he has sung in the box-office hit A Walk in the Clouds, Europa, and Surge of Power. As an actor he has been cast in a leading role in a movie called "Run While You Can," scheduled to be released Spring 2007, along side leading lady and buding Italian-American actress Linda Jody.

His many television and talk show appearances include Hollywood's KTLA Morning News, PBS, RAI UNO International, and Calabria SAT broadcasts in Italy. His music also plays on select nationwide radio markets and he has appeared live, in-studio and on-air in numerous interviews. To see some video clips of these performances visit www.oofilippo.com.

Filippo is a seven-time winner of the Sergio Franchi Vocal Competition, a NIAF and MAF Grant winner, a Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Symposium Fellow, a nominee for Entertainer of the Year by the Southern California Motion Picture Council and a winner of the Silver Bowl Award from the International Society of Poets for the lyrics to his title song on his latest CD. He and his work have been honored with mentions in such books as New York Best Selling Author Richard Grudens' book Italian Crooners, and a romance novel still to be officially titled.

Comfortable making any stage his home as singer, entertainer or emcee, Filippo continues to perform in intimate cabarets as well as headline performances on large stages with full orchestra (or big band) before large audiences. So versatile in fact, that he actually began his professional singing career in leading opera and musical comedy roles, and in 2003 sang the role of Socrates in the world premier of the rock opera "Visions" by Dimitiris.

He sings in several different languages including English, Italian, Latin, Spanish, French, German, Sicilian, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Neapolitan. Canada's Mirror Magazine wrote "Not just a pretty face and a beautiful voice, but a consummate entertainer, complete with an uncanny skill for storytelling, full of humor and arresting cool, calm, collected, but always sparkling, stage personality." Though often compared to Dean Martin because of his sultry baritone voice, his laid-back, easy-going personality and European sense of style, in a front-page article, The Los Angeles Daily News wrote, "...rising star... [Filippo] resembles a tan version of British Rock musician Peter Frampton, but sounds more like Julio Iglesias or Frank Sinatra...."

Live, on the Internet, CDs, Film, TV or Radio, he is always a class act and l

This would be Chef Richard

Chef Richard Lombardi's extensive cooking, preparing and recipe-creating experience has run the gambit in the food preparation industry.

From cooking as a private chef to catering large corporate events; from creating portion controlled and healthy oriented meals, to preparing foods, Italian and non-Italian, for national food store chains; from cooking in and owning a restaurant to teaching food classes, live and on radio and television, few chefs can draw from this kind of breathe of personal experience.

Whether famous people or well-known companies, he has been on call and catered to their needs. whether it be cooking for Jay Leno or taking over the production of the Bristol 300 line of low calorie products for Bristol Farms Stores, he has risen to the occasion and garnered a wealth of knowledge and experience.

His favorite food to cook, of course, is Italian-American, and it shows. When Crisco awarded him Chef of the month, they coined his cooking as "New Italian-American Cuisine." In fact, for years he was solely responsible for preparing some of the national food chain, Trader Joe's, most popular Italian entrees.

Whether cooking for celebrities, food chains, his clients or his family, he finds a way to make his work in the kitchen fun, easy and delicious. And as far as he is concerned, especially when it comes to cooking Italian food, no matter what, the way he looks at is, he is always "cooking for family!"