Rinnovo Comites: “Mondo democratico” e “Ctim" le liste ammesse a Los Angeles
Il Comitato elettorale del Consolato di Los Angeles ha ammesso due liste alle prossime elezioni del Comites. si tratta della lista "Mondo democratico" e della lista "Ctim – Comitato tricolore italiani nel mondo". Questi i nomi dei candidati. LISTA MONDO DEMOCRATICOPiana Marco, Eisenberg Elyse Debra, Fogu Claudio, Granata Eleonora, Longo V...
Our Italian Silicon Valley roots
by Cookie Curci Most of the important things I've learned in life- about caring, giving, strength and reliance, I've learned from my family. They have taught me valuable life lessons. Their lessons didn't come with preaching or lectures, they taught by example. Their hardworking, honest lifestyle set the goals and desires for future genera...
Casanova: Libertine Legend conference at UCLA
Casanova: Libertine Legend - a conference organized by Malina Stefanovska, University of California, Los Angeles, and Thomas Harrison, University of California, Los Angeles. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and the Department of Italian. Friday & Saturday, January 22–23, 2016, 9:30 a.m. -...
The Country in the City, Then and Now
Feathery stalks of wild fennel have shot up along public fence lines and in vacant lots throughout the bay area. Easy to miss alongside the showier riot of cherries, tulips, and poppies that also blossom and bloom this time of year, the pale green fennel is nonetheless our locally distinctive, if more humble, flag of spring. Like all flags...
Little Italy to Get Official Dog Park
By Megan Tevrizian and Laura McVicker Good news for pet owners in Little Italy: the downtown neighborhood is getting a dog park. The field connected to Washington Elementary School is already used by many dogs and their owners. Now, the San Diego Unified School District and the Little Italy Association have new plans to split the field at Am...
San Jose Italian Family Festa 2013
By Nickolas Marinelli As festa season in the San Francisco Bay Area continues to unfold, Italians, Italian-Americans and Italophiles are gathering to gorge on all the Italianità they can get their hands on. From Sacramento to San Jose, and from Stockton to San Francisco, there is no shortage of Italian celebrations this summer. Do...
Sculatti celebrates 104th birthday
Louise Sculatti celebrated her 104th birthday on Sunday with family in Napa. She enjoys going out anywhere, anytime, especially for lunch, visiting friends and family, watching the Food Network, "The Price is Right," and old movies. Sculatti came from Italy in 1924, and lived in Petaluma for about 19 years. While there, she worked in a sil...
Francis Ford Coppola Starts Experimental ‘Live Cinema’ Project at UCLA
Francis Ford Coppola has launched an ambitious "Distant Vision" project as a "live cinema" experiment at his alma mater, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Coppola unveiled details of the multi-year project at a news conference Saturday, following his month-long collaboration with 75 UCLA students and faculty on "Distant Vision,"...
Desert Arc's Italian Fest draws thousands to La Quinta
The aroma of fresh pasta sauce wafted through the crowd at La Quinta Civic Center Park Saturday during the opening day of Desert Arc's fourth annual Italian Festival. The two-day festival, which features plenty of Italian fare catered by local eateries — including myriad pasta dishes, meatball and sausage sandwiches and, of course, cannoli...
Travel talk with Patrizia Cinquini Cerruti: Visiting Italy
Sunday, April 19 • 2:00 pm • Admission $10@ The Italian Center, Carmichael Join the Italian Cultural Society's Travel Director, Patrizia Cinquini Cerruti, for this special seminar designed to give travelers to Italy strategies and practical ideas to make an Italian dream vacation a reality. Patrizia is a classroom instructor who has taug...
Sorelle Fine Arts: one way trip from Bergamo to L.A.
by Valerio Viale In 1994, the two sisters, Cristina and Laura Capitanio embarked in a one way flight from their foggy hometown, Bergamo – an urban conglomerate founded by Celtic tribes a few hundred years B.C. in Lombardy, region of Northern Italy – to the sunny Los Angeles – a metropolis risen up in an area which, accordingly to recent ar...
Il Circolo PD di San Francisco invita la comunita' italiana a un brindisi per le festivita'
Il circolo PD San Francisco-Berkeley-Silicon Valley e' lieto di invitare tutta la comunità italiana della Bay Area a un brindisi per le festività. Il brindisi sara' un'occasione per conoscere il circolo, e discutere insieme di idee per la comunità e per la politica in Italia. L'evento si svolgerà nella sala meeting, indirizzo 50 8th St, San Francis...