Italian and American Cars Highlight Pebble Beach 2016
Italian and American collectibles are dominating the sales at Gooding & Company and RM Sotheby's during the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance's motoring week. Among the headliners at Gooding & Co. on August 20-21 are a 1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV with coachwork by Bertone, that is being offered publicly for the first time (est: $2.2-...
Hot Italian To Host Annual Italian Festival in CA
Hot Italian Pizza Bar, a pizzeria known for its healthy, quality food, community involvement, and modern-Italy-meets-urban-California sensibility, will host the seventh annual Moderno Italiano Festival on Friday, August 12 through Sunday, August 14 to coincide with the Italian mid-summer holiday Ferragosto. The festivities feature special programmi...
San Francisco to honor Tony Bennett with statue, festivities
by Kristin J. Bender For as long as anyone can remember, Tony Bennett has been giving to the city where he first sang "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" at the Fairmont Hotel in 1961. And now, the city is set to pay him back. In recognition of the internationally renowned singer, painter and civic treasure, the city will honor him wit...
Metti un gruppo di studenti italiani alla USC di Los Angeles
La University of Southern California è conosciuta in tutto il mondo, ma ancora in pochi sanno della comunità italiana che è recentemente nata al suo interno. Nello scorso mese di Ottobre è stata ufficialmente fondata e riconosciuta la USC Italian Society, organizzazione studentesca che si propone di creare un canale di comunicazione tra studenti di...
Zegna Opens First Store of its Z Zegna Line in Los Angeles
Italian luxury menswear house Ermenegildo Zegna opened this week its first stand alone in the U.S. dedicated to its Z Zegna line. The new Z Zegna mono-brand store is situated within the Beverly Hills Centre Mall in Los Angeles. Also this week, Z Zegna's creative director, Paul Surridge, presented the Z Zegna Fall Winter 2013-14 collection at the Z...
All Day Seminar: Celebrating Italian Culture & Its Impact Throughout Time
Saturday, April 13, 2013 10-4 In celebration of the Year of Italian Culture in the US, the Museo will have an All Day Seminar on the impact of Italian culture. The topics are Modernity, Machines and Motor Oil: Italian Futurist Art and Ideals, by Christopher Atwood, PhD candidate in Italian Studies at UC Berkeley, The Innovations of Italian Cinema,...
Festa Italiana is music, mangia and amore
By Kevin Parrish STOCKTON - It was 105, and romance was in the air. Brittany Jasmann of Stockton and Michael Blohm of Ripon, both in their 20s, were on their second date. She talked him into going to Sunday's premiere Festa Italiana at the Waterloo Gun and Bocce Club. They barely got inside the gate when two makeshift bocce court...
Save 40% on Gran Fondo Giro d’Italia Beverly Hills
Save big on a premier cycling experience! The best of Italian cycling meets Southern California style in Beverly Hills for 2 incredible bike routes at the Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia Beverly Hills on November 3, 2013.Save 40% of the registration price by signing up before August 8, 2013 with a special coupon code. Join cyclists from around th...
TOK.tv Makes Watching TV Social and Global
By Mauro Battocchi Watching TV with your friends — especially sporting events — can be a stimulating social experience. (Was that jab really worth a yellow flag? OBviously! What?? No WAY!) You and your friends likely have sporting opinions that get shared vociferously among the group. Alas, it's 2013 and your favorite soccer watching buddy may liv...
Naples that Chants and Enchants: a dinner party in honor of Luigi De Magistris
On October 24, 2013 the Maestri Monzu will travel from Naples to the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club to celebrate with the Italian, and the Italian American Communities the Mayor of Naples Hon. Luigi de Magistris, and the artists of Naples' Teatro di San Carlo on the occasion of the United the Two Bays Concert featuring the Teatro di San Carlo'...
Little Italy holiday toy drive
The Little Italy Association of San Diego is proud to present the 3rd Annual Little Italy Holiday Toy Drive, benefiting the foster children of New Alternatives; a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Join us in making a child's or teenager's holiday a little brighter. Bring an unwrapped toy to a participating business (Listed Below) or the Little Italy M...
Circolo Trentino di San Francisco Launches Online
by Mauro Battocchi As the holidays roll around, I find myself thinking of snowy Trentino where I passed my early childhood in that profoundly bucolic mountain valley through which flows the rushing Adige river. Here in San Francisco, my pride for my homeland is galvanized by the wonderful work of the Circolo Trentino di San Franci...