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All of ICC courses are taught by native-speaking Italian teachers. We seek part-time native Italian instructors with the start of each new term to teach Italian language or Italian culture classes in art, music, opera, literature, and more!   If you are interested and live in the San Diego area with a valid work permit, please contact u...

This workshop is designed for everyone who is interested in learning about the evolution of Italian Advertising. From the Italian Carosello to modern advertising, you will learn how Italian TV Commercials have evolved.   When someone mentions "Made in Italy," the mind almost automatically goes to fashionable clothing, lux...

by Allen Pierleoni   Sure, there's plenty of good pizza in restaurants around town, but lovers of Italian cuisine can go beyond that staple and into more interesting fare at Festa Italiana. Heap your plates with Italian sausage and meatballs, pasta, chicken Parmesan, calamari, cannoli, gelato and much more.   The festival of all-thing...

For 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...

Exit, execution, network, intro, hire, fire. These are the words that keep on coming back in conversations that go on in that unique stretch of America that runs southwards from San Francisco. Because Silicon Valley is not just a place but a "faith" - which gets idealized by its own followers.   Of thousands of start ups started each year, o...

2014 has been a long and full year for the Italian community in the Bay Area. As moments and people marked the last twelve months, the end of the year is the time when people look back to find what is worthy to bring with them in the new one.   We talked about this and more with Mauro Battocchi, who started his mandate as Italian Consul in S...

by Catherine Accardi   Can an 18th century Italian comedic play withstand the tests of time and culture? We who live in the San Francisco Bay Area have the opportunity to make that determination when Mirandolina, Mistress of a Tuscan Inn comes to the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. Mirandolina is probably not the typical type of...

by Michele Parente   And you thought San Diego had a lot of beaches: Italy has more than 4,700 miles of gorgeous coastline.   So when I heard that the accomplished team behind La Jolla's Whisknladle were opening a restaurant named Catania, promising authentic Italian coastal cuisine, my mind went immediately to pastas sun-kissed with...

by Mark Glover Sacramento boasts of its farm-to-fork reputation, but an Italian delegation visiting the city on Monday hopes that residents also will be receptive to a taste of Tuscany. About a dozen members of a trade and business delegation from the city of Lucca in Italy's famed Tuscany region showed off their wares Monday morning at Adamo...

Date: 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...

Domenica 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...

by Holly Valentine For the 21st consecutive year, the Solano chapter of UNICO, an Italian-American service club, has awarded scholarships to deserving local high school seniors. Seven students were awarded one thousand dollars each for the following scholarships: Juilus J. Caserza Memorial Scholarship: Austin Chadwick and Frank Primrose, Vacavil...