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You’d be hard-pressed to find any blarney when Italian-born pianist Alessio Bax joins the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra (SBCO) this St. Patrick’s Day — unless you count the craft beer tasting event afterward, open to subscribers.   The first half of the concert, however, belongs to conductor Heiichiro Ohyama and the orchestra, who will cel...

Since the days of Nobel Laureate Emilio Segrè, Italian researchers have played a prominent role in academic endeavors at UC Berkeley, in California, and in the United States. With this event (planned as the first in a series of discussions), we would like to share successful stories of Berkeley Italian researchers, stories that show how Italian cul...

Little Italy San Jose FoundationWednesday, May 27, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (PDT)San Jose, CA Little Italy San Jose is pleased to bring back our popular wine tasting events in our Piazza Piccola Italia. La Rusticana D'Dorsa winery of Los Gatos has been a supporter of Little Italy San Jose for several years and we have had the pleasure of pouri...

by Bianca Friundi   Fall is around the corner in the Bay Area, and with it comes Lido Cantarutti's Italian Film Festival of acclaimed comedy and drama directly from Italy. The Festival is an abiding favorite, eagerly awaited by Marin County residents as well as San Francisco natives.   Now in its 39th year, the Festival showcases the...

Thursday, November 12 at 6:30pm. Museo Italo Americano - Fort Mason Center - 2 Marina Blvd., Building C - San Francisco, CA 94123 The celebrated film director Frank Capra, a native of Sicily, was always insecure about how much he belonged in America. During that less enlightened time of the early 1900s when he grew up in Los An...

Where: Hall of Nations, 2191 Pan American Rd W, San Diego, California 92101. When: 5:00pm on Sunday February 21., 2016. Door closes at 5:15pm. Italy's medieval universities established the study of human anatomy for physicians. To heighten their art, Renaissance masters clandestinely examined anatomy through human dissection. The profound conn...

by Cookie Curci   It was the spring of 1950 when I first met Sister Mary Katherine and Sister Mary Agnes Ann, two Catholic nuns teaching Sunday school classes to a group of us kids from Lincoln Glen Elementary School. Willow Glen was a small, growing community back then and much in need of its own Catholic church to serve the influx of...

by BAIA   Fri, September 30, 2016. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Campari America - 1255 Battery Street #500 - San Francisco, CA, United States. Come celebrate our first 10 years, and toast to our future 10 plus years of continued success! Join us to celebrate this milestone and to welcome the new Italian Consul General in...

Don't miss the "Italian Matters Because..." event this Saturday at 4:00 PM at the Museo Italo Americano. Professors, lecturers and technologists will come together and show how learning la dolce lingua can change your life and your career, as well as expand on the larger significance of multilingual literacy in our modern world. But, that's not al...

By Antonio Gonzalez   Emirates Team New Zealand is trying to wrap up a spot in the America's Cup match against defending champion Oracle Team USA as fast as it can. The only thing slowing it down is the weather.   The Kiwis set a race record of more than 54 mph on the new 72-foot catamarans Saturday, sailing swiftly in a strong wind t...

Drive deep into the woods and hills of southern Lake County about 30 miles from the nearest stoplight and you'll start seeing red, white and green Italian flags hanging from the cabins and cottages.   Under a lush canopy of fir trees, signs start appearing: Parking only for Italians, others will be towed. One pine sprouts signs for DeMattei...

by Venus Mazzoni Franceschi   Through the hustle and bustle of the preparation for the Holiday Season, JoAnn Waller and Mary Pizel found time to be quite busy planning the annual Christmas Party for Families of Italian Lineage. It was held at the beautiful Mission Viejo Country Club on December 15, 2013, when their labor of detailed preparat...