Feast and play at 29th annual Festa Italiana
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...
A first step into the new year looking back at 2014: a conversation with Mauro Battocchi, Italian Consul in San Francisco
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...
Reading between the lines: Learning the Italian culture through literature
by Michele Pluss Renowned science fiction author Ray Bradbury once said, "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them". Bradbury may not have been Italian - and we can't fault him for that - but he did have a point about the importance of books in culture. Intentional or not, every book carr...
Garry Marshall - Awakening the Italian in me
Hollywood sells the American dream to the whole world, a clear example of that is the movie Pretty Woman, which ends the modern Cinderella fable with the line "This is Hollywood, the land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't, but keep on dreaming". If you were to ask all the people that come to Los Angeles, both from United States and from...
Images captured by Santi Visalli’s lens find new home at CSU Channel Islands
Intently, as if preparing for a final exam, Jaclyn Zaragoza studied the stark, black-and-white photos on the walls, photos that described an America a quarter century before she was born. Martin Luther King Jr. Richard Nixon. Bobby Kennedy, ice skating with Ethel just weeks before his assassination. Idealistic young people p...
Representing human body - Art and science in Italian Renaissance
LOS ANGELES - Behind the worldly renowned Renaissance of painting, sculpture, music and architecture that developed in Italy and then spread throughout Europe, there was a parallel and less known cultural movement: a "scientific Renaissance". The desire for knowledge characterized in those centuries is indeed at the origin of the most important dis...
Festa Coloniale Italiana 2012
We are very excited to announce that on Saturday, August 11, The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club Foundation welcomes the Bay Area to North Beach for the 2012 Festa Coloniale Italiana, an annual Italian festival that celebrates the rich Italian and Italian-American heritage that has existed in San Francisco for generations. This free event conti...
The ancient art of violin making from Cremona to Los Angeles
The Italian city of Cremona, in Lombardy Region, is considered as the violin's birthplace, where between the 17th and 18th century the Amati, Guerneri, and Stradivari families created some of the finest string instruments that the world has ever seen. Over the last 12 years, each September Cremona has hosted the unique exhibition of handcr...
Napoli Act II. Fundraising evening to promote cooperation between San Francisco and Naples
Campania Felix LLC, Mind the Bridge Foundation, Two Universities by the Bay, and Unite the Two Bays cordially invite you to: Napoli and San Francisco Act II A Fundraising Event to celebrate the second anniversary of Unite The Two Bays and to launch its new programs: From Vesuvio to Silicon Valley...and back Biophysics of Amyloids and Prions...
L'opera italiana per festeggiare il compleanno della Repubblica
Come da tradizione, la ricorrenza della Festa della Repubblica italiana a San Francisco si è celebrata in concomitanza con l'evento "Italian Opera Day at the Park", appuntamento annuale presentato in cooperazione con l'Italian American Community Services Agency, il coordinatore del programma Maria Fassio Pignati e i Simi Cantori. L'evento...
Italian Ambassador Armando Varricchio Visits San Francisco & Knights a Commendatore
San Francisco was honored by the recent visit of Ambassador of Italy His Excellency Armando Varricchio, who spent several days visiting with leading, local Italian businessmen and meeting with City and Italian community leaders. Stops included a ribbon cutting for Energica Motor Company and a meeting with Airbnb. Energica, a high-performance, super...
Don't miss this incredible concert: "Christmas in Italy" with internationally acclaimed Cristina Fontanelli.
A vocal journey through Italy's best-loved songs and arias by composers such as Donizetti, Tosti, and Puccini, plus favorites like "Torna A Surriento," "Ave Maria," and other Christmas classics. Now playing for nine Christmas seasons in New York, the magic of "Christmas in Italy" comes to the West Coast for the second time in 2012. Ms. Fontanelli...