October 17 – Italian Rootstock Festival – 1:00-8:00 pm
Santa Rosa Vintners Square. 1301 & 1305 Cleveland Avenue - Santa Rosa, CA 95401. Free for adults & children. A full day of family fun filled with local Italian artisan ambiance with Italian food, Italian folk music & dancing, silent auction, arts & crafts, face-painting, games for kids, grape stomp, wine tasting,...
Phil Stern, welcome back to Sicily
Date: Friday, January 22, 2016 - Thursday, March 31, 2016 Hours: See IIC gallery hours Venue: IIC Organized by: IIC In collaboration with: Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania, Scuola di Fotografia and Museo Storico dello Sbarco in Sicilia, Le Nove Muse Editrice, Digital History Archives, Credito Siciliano, Sheraton Catania, Miartè Fine Art and F...
Sublime sounds of iPalpiti Festival come to Encinitas
With its beautiful beaches and delicious restaurants, Encinitas is truly a feast for the senses. Not to be left out, the ears of local residents are in for a treat later this month when the annual iPalpiti Festival returns to the city for the fifth straight year. In its 19th year overall, the festival will kick off in Encinitas July 7-10 b...
The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles Announces A Solo Exhibition “Color Fusion: The Art of Dick Marconi”
From January 31 "Color Fusion: The Art of Dick Marconi" will feature a selection of Marconi's works, an ongoing exploration of the emotive, transformative, and creative power of colors. Dick Marconi (b. 1934) is an American artist residing in California, whose fascination with colors began at the age of twelve when an accident left him bli...
North Beach Citizens' "An Italian Dinner Celebration"
For the twelfth year, "An Italian Dinner Celebration" will welcome the San Francisco community for a dazzling evening of authentic Italian fare and live entertainment for a fantastic cause. The event marks the 12th annual Spring Fundraiser for North Beach Citizens, a local non-profit founded by Francis Ford Coppola, committed to alleviating the pro...
Francesco Vezzoli returning to MOCA with new exhibition
by David Ng Francesco Vezzoli, the uber-hip Italian artist whose conceptual creations tend to have a high celebrity quotient, will present a new exhibition that's set to stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles later this year. "Cinema Vezzoli" is scheduled to arrive at MOCA in late fall, according to the artist's representat...
Sposarsi a San Francisco
di Mauro Battocchi Il «turismo matrimoniale» è oramai una realtà consolidata che muove molte persone in tutto il mondo. Ovviamente, l'Italia è una destinazione privilegiata. Vi sono molte coppie infatti che per quello che è il momento del fatidico sì decidono di avere una cornice speciale, specialissima. Pensiamo a quante persone,...
Recology Was Founded by Italian American Scavengers and is Still 100% Employee Owned
by Mauro Battocchi You've likely seen the Recology trucks cruising around the neighborhoods of San Francisco collecting the contents of their plastic bins. The company was founded 90 years ago by Italian Americans as one of the nation's first urban recyclers and is committed to recycling, renewal, reuse and reduction. The goal? Zero waste....
Italian guitarist Beppe Gambetta to play Valhalla festival – 24 June, 7:30 PM
Valhalla's Art, Music and Theatre Festival continues this week with Italian guitarist Beppe Gambetta. Gambetta performs at the South Shore's Valhalla Boathouse Theatre Wednesday night, bringing a diverse set of tastes to Lake Tahoe. "From his unique background as an Italian musician in love with both American roots music as well as the mus...
January 5 Vallejo A&E Source: Solano teacher showcases ‘Italian cowboys’ at Java Jax
By Richard Freedman Gabrielle Saveri has always loved horses. Cowboys? Well, if they're along for the ride, so be it. Anyway, who doesn't like cowboys, especially Italian ones? Surely not Saveri, a Solano Community College adjunct professor who parlayed skills learned from the school's photography instructors and her summer trek to Italy into...
Regards and Congrats to the Italian American Associations!
Happy holidays to all Italians and Italian Americans in the North West and Pacific area! In 2000 there were 1,163,038 American citizens of Italian origin in the North West and Pacific region. These are the most recent census data in which you can identify Italian ancestry. In the 48 counties of Northern California, there were around 700,000, a lit...
Between Mozia and Lilibeo, Landscapes and Monuments of Sicily
Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - Saturday, June 15, 2013Photographs by Giuseppe LeoneThe exhibit describes the culture and identities of Sicily and in particular of the historic-archeological-naturalistic district of Marsala, from where the Statue of a Youth (the Mozia Charioteer) currently on view at the Getty Villa, comes from. Born in Ragusa where he li...