The X Factors of Leadership and Success - BAIA for Women's History Month on 3/7 at SFIAC
Tuesday March 7th, 2023 6-8pm. SFIAC San Francisco Italian Athletic Club - 1630 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA. Buy your ticket. March is Women's History Month and BAIA is excited to celebrate with a spotlight on Italian female professionals in the Bay Area. The third edition of the event is dedicated to the qualities that have allowed these leader...
Luoghi del cuore FAI, the 2022 winners. One and a half million Italians voted for the jewels to save
A boundless passion, that of Italians, for the Peninsula's heritage. Even, and especially, for that which is in danger of fading into abandonment and oblivion. The 11th edition of the Fai Places of the Heart, which closed on December 15 last year, today reveals its winning sites. On the podium are Gallipoli in Puglia, Campobasso in Molise and Aless...
Giancarlo Giannini will 'shine' on the walk of fame
Giancarlo Giannini on Hollywood's famous "Walk of fame." Initially scheduled for 2020 and then postponed due to the pandemic, the footprint ceremony will be held on March 6 in Los Angeles. This is the sixteenth Italian star: an important recognition for one of the greatest protagonists of Italian cinema.The occasion will be the eighth edition of Fi...
2,000-year-old hall where emperor & knights partied discovered in Italy
Archaeologists in Italy unearthed a massive hall where an emperor and knights partied some 2,000 years ago. The hall, discovered by researchers at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale in Naples, was located in the seaside home of Vedio Pollione, a Roman knight and politician who lived in the 1st century BCE, according to the school. Located on a cl...
Ralph’s Italian Deli in Ishpeming back in business
Since 1986, Ralph’s Italian Deli in Ishpeming has been selling homemade Italian dishes to the U.P. community. Last March the store closed after announcing that it would condense and share the space on Palms Avenue with a new Fire Station Cannabis Co. location. Ralph’s Italian Deli Owner Bruno Gervasi expressed that the eatery spent the time remodel...
Massimo Troisi Trailer: Paolo Sorrentino & Michael Radford Recall ‘Il Postino’ Star In Berlinale Doc ‘Somebody Down There Likes Me’
Italian director Mario Martone, who has been on the festival and awards circuit over the past year with Oscar submission and Cannes title Nostalgia, is at the Berlinale with his passion project Somebody Down There Likes Me. The documentary pays tribute to late Italian actor and fellow Neapolitan Massimo Troisi who died tragically young at the age o...
Petition: a Stamp in Honor of Lt. Fr. Vincent Capodanno
A Petition to the U.S. Postmaster General to issue a Commemorative Stamp to honor Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Fr. Vincent Capodanno. Click here and sign the online petition! Lieutenant Father Vincent Capodanno was born on February 13, 1929, in Staten Island, New York. Vincent was the youngest of 10 children. His father was an immigrant from Gaeta,...
Lisa Vittozzi anchors Italians to women’s relay gold
Italian Lisa Vittozzi’s stunning 10-for-10 shooting on a very windy afternoon secured the women’s 4 X 6 km relay Gold medal for her and teammates Samuela Comola, Dorothea Wierer and Hannah Auchentaller at the BMW IBU World Championships in Oberhof. The Italian team used only two spare rounds, the best shooting performance of any team this season in...
Processing tomatoes: Italy is among the world’s top producers
According to a report published last December by research institute Ismea, Italy is the third largest producer of tomatoes for processing in the world. In 2022, about 5.5 million tonnes of tomatoes were produced and processed in Italy, which amounts to about 15% of the world’s production and 56% of the European crop. The industrial turnover of this...
Magazzino Italian Art Announces Highlights of the 2023 Program
Magazzino Italian Art is pleased to announce a new slate of programs for the upcoming year. The calendar will highlight a program series curated by Ilaria Conti on diversity in art and culture across Italy and the US, a lecture series on new scholarship in the study of the Arte Povera movement curated by Roberta Minnucci, Magazzino Italian Art 2022...
Toni Servillo: the great beauty of narrating 20th-century Italy
November 25th, 2020: the New York Times draws up a list of the greatest actors of the 21st century. The only Italian, ranking seventh, is Toni Servillo. According to their reasoning, the actor had been “the central avatar in Sorrentino’s excavation of the corruption and hypocrisy, but also of the improbable glory and absurd resilience of modern Ita...
Inside look at The Farm Italy, Huntington’s new Italian restaurant
It’s a bit modern. It’s a little bit farm. But most of all, it’s authentic. That’s how restaurateur John Tunney III describes his new venture The Farm Italy, a new Italian restaurant that recently opened in Huntington Village. “We wanted to start it with this kind of homey feeling,” Tunney said. “It’s a comfortable environment and really authentic....