It's December and 2014 is coming to a close. It seems to happen every year, one year ends and just one day later we have a new year filled with opportunities and adventures. Although the San Francisco Bay Area does not lend itself to a white Christmas with bells jingling in a one-horse open sleigh, we can still do the deed west coast style...
READ MORETime: December 14, 2012 to March 10, 2013Location: Museo Italo AmericanoCity/Town: San FranciscoWebsite or Map: http://museoitaloamericano.orgEvent Type: exhbitionOrganized By: Museo Italo Americano The son of Sicilian immigrants, Joe Oddo is a long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay area and a self-described "traditionalist" painter. During t...
READ MOREThe images above on the Italian Heritage Mural are part of the life work of Italian immigrant Gino Sbrana, who started his American life in San Francisco as a vegetable peddler. By 1911, he had launched a large photographic studio, Pisa Foto, at Columbus and Broadway in San Francisco. Later Gino founded a studio in Oakland and, in 1919, settled in...
READ MOREby Mauro Battocchi Thanks to the Mind the Bridge Foundation more than 250 high-tech professionals from Silicon Valley learnt something that hardly ever pierces through the media walls - facts about Italy's innovation capabilities that are generally confined to a smaller circle of hands-on experts. Such is Italy's success in culture, food,...
READ MORELa 57^ edizione del San Francisco International Film Festival è alle porte, e come ogni anno in primavera questo evento presenta per quindici giorni una straordinaria selezione di opere cinematografiche provenienti da tutto il mondo. Fra gli oltre duecento film ed eventi live in programma e cento registi in persona, anche l'Italia avrà la...
READ MOREQuando il cardinale argentino Jorge Bergoglio è stato nominato Papa e ha deciso di adottare, per la prima volta nella storia millenaria della Chiesa cattolica il nome di Francesco, ha inaugurato il suo pontificato con un gesto di alto profilo. Come è noto infatti, il nome che un Papa decide di assumere per la più alta carica del Cristianes...
READ MOREby Mauro Battocchi Two Napolitanos featured at Italy's Consulate in San Francisco a few days ago. Along with Italy's Head of State Giorgio, in the picture, I had to honor to host Janet, the new President of the University of California, former Homeland Security Secretary and former Governor of Arizona, in person. Janet is one of the m...
READ MOREA loan from the Galleria Nazionale in Parma, Italy, provides a rare opportunity for viewing Parmigianino's masterpiece Schiava turca (ca. 1531–1534). Heralded as an originator of Mannerism, Parmigianino developed an expressive style with elongated forms that was also indebted to the work of Raphael and Michelangelo. The title, which transl...
READ MOREThanks to the growing success of the super We Love Italian "Let Us Adopt Italian Language Students" campaign, grants are now available through COMITES of San Francisco, the "Committee of Italians Abroad" in our area. The purpose of the grants is to promote and support teaching and learning of Italian language and culture in Northern Califo...
READ MORESaturday, February 27, 2016. The Great Pasta Contest and Dinner is an entertaining fundraising event where celebrity chefs prepare their most delectable pasta recipes and attendees vote for their favorite. This year's chefs are: David Cincotta – Attorney at Law; Randall Kline – Founder and Artistic Director of SFJazz, and Te...
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