Slice of Italian culture coming to La Paloma
The San Diego Italian Film Festival returned to La Paloma Theatre in February, with a new film each month from March through August. Four years ago, the festival expanded to La Paloma in downtown Encinitas, a move that festival board member Anthea Beletsis said has been enthusiastically received. The festival's home base is the Museum of P...
Italian Community Services Celebrates ‘Cent’anni’
For over a century, Italian Community Services (ICS) has been serving Bay Area individuals, families and the community. On Sunday, November 6, 2016, those 100 years will be celebrated in style at the Four Season's Hotel in San Francisco when ICS commemorates 'Cent'anni', the one hundredth anniversary of helping people by being a trusted resource....
Join a Gala Evening to Benefit Teatro San Carlo and the SF Opera!
On the occasion of the 2013 Year of the Italian Culture in the US and Giuseppe Verdi's Bicentennial, please save the date for VIVA L'ITALIA, a gala evening to benefit an anticipated once-in-a-lifetime performance of the Verdi Requiem at the War Memorial Opera House on October 25, 2013. The performance will unite the orchestras and choruses of San F...
Italy-America Poetry Encounter
UCLA Department of Italian and Istituto Italiano di Cultura Los Angeles cordially invite you to Italy-America Poetry Encounter What happens when Italian and American poets meet on the literary stage?Do they speak the same language? Do they dress as much alike, literarily speaking, as their brothers and sisters on the street? How uni...
IALA’s new leadership takes office and hosts the National Italian American Bar Association
by Silvia Simonetti Eager to connect more deeply with the local community, IALA's schedule has been particularly rich in engaging events during the last week. On Thursday, January 23, the Italian American Lawyers Association hosted the "NIABA Night" at Casa Italiana, while on Saturday 25, members and their guests gathered at the USC C...
San Pedro's historic Italian neighborhood and community
Attention Italians of San Pedro! The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles is preparing an exhibit on San Pedro's historic Italian neighborhood and community. Fisherman! Canneries! Vinegar Hill! Fisherman's Fiesta! Genovese, Sicilian and Ischitani! Societá di Pescatori! If you are interested in sharing your stories, memories and photos, O...
Foodie Empire: Eat and learn Italian at Piad'Amore
by Laurie Lucas It's not enough to merely eat authentic Italian flatbread sandwiches in Riverside. The owner of Piad'Amore restaurant wants a dual-immersion experience for customers into his homeland's favorite street food and his native tongue. Every Thursday from 6-7:30 p.m., owner Antonio Pagano hosts Italian lessons at his 2-month-old...
Special Invitation to Join the Annual Italian Heritage Parade this October
by Mauro Battocchi San Francisco's Annual Italian Heritage Parade will hit the streets on Sunday, October 11, 2015 in North Beach, the historic Italian district of San Francisco. Last year, on October 12, almost 90 floats took part in one the largest Italian Heritage parades ever recorded. This year we would like to see the greatest partic...
First Ever Silicon Valley Italian Festival Springs into Life
On Sunday January 31, 2016 at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto (3921 Fabian Way), a new flower in the current "Italian Spring" in San Francisco will blossom: the first ever Silicon Valley Italian Festival is on the way. Sponsored by all stripes of the Italian community, from the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco to Cl...
The 50th anniversary of the Asian Art Museum gets an Italian touch with Matteo Ricci’s exhibition
The celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco got an Italian touch: while the museum's current home was designed by architect Gae Aulenti, the museum is hosting an exhibition regarding the Italian Jesuit Missionary Matteo Ricci, curated - among others - by Italian exhibition designer Marco Centin. The co...
Giovanni ‘Gianni’ Giotta, Caffe Trieste founder, dies at 96
Giovanni "Gianni" Giotta, founder of Caffe Trieste and one of North Beach's great personalities, died Saturday at 96. He was born in 1920 in Rovigno on the Istrian peninsula, a town that now belongs to Croatia. He came from a fishing family and began accompanying his father on the boats when he was just 6, graduating to merchant marine ships b...
Storytrail Launches Video City Guide to Rome, Italy
Some of the best — and craziest — things can happen when you travel. A new startup, Storytrail, is here to capture those memories and share them on the web in a series of video guides and walking tours. Its mission: Let stories be your guide when you travel. Storytrail launched on June 8, 2016 with a guide to Rome, Italy. The company plans to add...