Announcing the 155th San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade
The San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade Committee is thrilled to announce the return of the parade to the streets of San Francisco on October 8, 2023. Renowned pizzaiolo and restaurateur Tony Gemignani and esteemed Judge Claude Perasso will be honored as the Grand Marshals for the highly anticipated event. Tony Gemignani, a world-class pizza acro...
Locanda Positano, Acclaimed Italian Restaurant, Wins Best of Los Angeles Award- Best Authentic Italian Restaurant - 2023
Locanda Positano, acclaimed Italian restaurant owned by Michelangelo Pinto and Patrizia Martiradonna, wins the Best of Los Angeles Award- "Best Authentic Italian Restaurant - 2023", according to Aurora DeRose, award coordinator for the Best of Los Angeles Award community. The "Best of Los Angeles Award" community was formed nine years ago and consi...
ICYMI, It’s Hot Focaccia Sandwich Summer in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has always been a sandwich town, with staples like Roma Market in Pasadena, Langer’s in Westlake, and Bay Cities in Santa Monica all worthy of decades of conversation — but there has never been a sandwich moment quite like this one before. It has unequivocally become the summer of focaccia sandwiches, with makers from Silver Lake to San...
Is midtown Sacramento still getting a new Italian bistro? Update on New York expansion
Construction is underway for the newest pizza joint in Sacramento, more than a year after the New York City restaurant announced its expansion. Pazza Notte Restaurant announced in 2022 that it would open a second location by last spring at 1801 L St. in midtown. As of Saturday, the inside of the storefront is covered with plastic wrap and paint can...
Giacomo Ceruti: A Compassionate Eye
September 25, 2023 | 6:00 PM. Italian Cultural Institute - 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. Admission: Free. The event will be also streamed on Zoom for Guests who are not able to participate in person. RSVP here. Laborers, unhoused, and marginalized individuals are the protagonists of a striking series of paintings by Italian artist Giacomo C...
Giamela’s Los Angeles: Italian sub sandwiches, pizza and pasta
Giamela’s has been proudly serving Los Angeles with the best Italian sub sandwiches, pizza, and pasta since 1964. What began as a humble sub shop has now become a revered and treasured LA institution, known for its classic flavors and retro atmosphere. On the menu are cold sandwiches (like turkey and ham); hot sandwiches (like steak & cheese and me...
Mangia! ‘Taste of Italy Los Angeles' will spotlight local pizza, pasta, and Prosecco
There's a reason that the words "enchantment" and "evening" and "eating" so frequently appear in a single sentence, and it isn't totally due to them all alliteratively sharing the same first letter. Mostly, it is because the timeless act of dining outdoors as the stars are beginning their nightly twinkle-twinkle is something that humans have enjoye...
The heart of the Family. Italian Immigrant Women in Mining Communities
Sunday, September 17 at 2:00 pm. 6821 Fair Oaks Blvd Carmichael CA. Admission $15 • Refreshments Included • Doors open at 1:30 pm. In this presentation, Author Phyllis Cancilla Martinelli examines the lives of immigrant women from Northern Italy in mining communities spanning the years from 1870-1930. In the old mining towns of the American West, m...
Italian Film Festival of Marin County
Originally started as an informal, one-time only presentation of Italian movies in a college lecture hall, the Italian Film Festival of Marin County has grown over its 46 years into a perennial favorite in the San Francisco Bay Area. From the beginning it has been a labor of love for its longtime director, Lido Cantarutti. Under his direction the p...
VIP Grand Opening of Little Italy Museum's Italian Cellar
Saturday September 30 from 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM PDT. 323 W St John St, San Jose, CA. Please join us for this special grand opening of the Italian Cellar and fundraiser for the Little Italy Cultural Center & Museum. This event will officially kickoff the Little Italy San Jose Festival and mark the grand opening of the Italian Cellar bar that is part o...
All in the Family: Ray Abruzzo recalls Italian roots with ‘A View from the Bridge’
“The Sopranos” veteran Ray Abruzzo enjoys acting for one primary reason: the challenge of it. He’s being tested now in the role of Eddie Carbone in Ruskin Group Theatre’s staging of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge,” which runs through Sunday, Oct. 8. The Tony- and Drama Desk-winning play is set in 1950s Brooklyn and explores human nature, e...
Italo Calvino’s (American) Identity
When: Thursday, September 28, 2023 | 6:30 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute @INNOVIT, 710 Sansome Street, San Francisco As we approach the eve of Italo Calvino's centennial (October 15, 1923), nearly forty years after his death (September 19, 1985), questions arise spontaneously: what is the legacy of this Italian novelist in the United States...