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There are few more delicious ways to explore a city’s roots than by tasting your way through its enclaves, whether it’s North Beach in San Francisco or Little Italy, the trendy, restaurant-rich neighborhood in sunny San Diego. Last year, Forbes magazine dubbed Little Italy one of the country’s top 10 hottest neighborhoods for millennials. It’s awfu...

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Loosely translated from Italian to mean “big ride,” the GranFondo making its way through Little Italy this weekend is open to anyone, whether an experienced cyclist or someone new to a ride like this who wants to see whether they can do it. The mass-start, timed ride has four route options, including King and Queen of the Mountain competitions, and...

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When: May 23, 2017 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Where: Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Room CD. For tickets, please follow the link. We look forward to seeing you! Join us as we honor Stephen Ferruolo, Dean of the USD School of Law, and we present him with the 2017 Convivio Communitas Award for Leadership. The awards luncheon will be held o...

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Sann Diego State head coach Rocky Long read awhile back that Jim Harbaugh is taking the Michigan football team to Italy during spring football. Long thought, “What a great idea.” So Long is taking the Aztecs to Italy, too. ... Little Italy. The downtown San Diego neighborhood dates back more than a century, its heritage traced to the Italian commun...

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San Diego’s Little Italy is the largest Little Italy community in the nation and has been reviving over the last 20 years under the leadership of the nonprofit organization, the Little Italy Association. The Little Italy neighborhood has turned multiple Italian’s vision of an “American Dream” into a beautiful reality. In the last 12 years, there’s...

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By Andrew Bagley A pianist, composer, and arranger playing jazz clubs around Mission Valley in the mid 1980s, when the couple first met, it was love at first sight. Smoldering soul mates reconnecting, within two weeks they were engaged then later married. Since then, they have been together for twenty-eight years performing music together in perfe...

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Italian cinema has achieved something of a renaissance in the past few years, thanks to high-profile award wins at the Venice Film Festival (the documentary Sacro Gra) and talents like Paolo Sorrentino and Matteo Garone showcasing new works on the international stage.   But focusing on these highlights threatens to diminish the impact of sma...

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by Chelsea Madren   Sean Shoja, proprietor of ASAN Restaurant Concepts, is a great restaurateur of San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. In 2007, he purchased a coffee shop on the corner of 5th and K Streets and renovated it into Toscana Café & Wine Bar. Within very short walking distance from the San Diego Convention Center, it's the perfect set...

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Strolling along the streets of Little Italy, it is not unusual to see banners with photographs of famous Italians. What is unusual is to see banners of Bobby Darrin, Lady Gaga and Claudio Jacuzzi. Usual or unusual, these too, are Italians.   Most people are comfortable seeing banners of such well known Italians as Frankie Laine, Al Pacino, R...

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CONVIVIO COMMUNITAS AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP 2015 is proudly being awarded to JOSEPH D. PANETTA, PRESIDENT AND CEO | BIOCOM. For his tireless, selfless, and inspired leadership in making San Diego a global leader in life science and biotechnology. Dinner and award ceremony in honor of Joseph Panetta March 12, 2015 - Lafayett...

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