Rosario Giuliani: Cinema Italia
Tuesday June 18, 2019 at 7.30 PM. Free entrance. Club Fugazi, 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Boulevard, San Francisco, CA. What would film be without music? Music conveys all that which images cannot. The importance of a soundtrack can sometimes even transcend that of images and stories, and great directors often build the entire structure of their mast...
La Traviata: An original LA Opera production at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
June 1 - 22. LA Opera, 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Conducted by James ConlonExperience the glamour and romance of Verdi's essential opera about a beautiful courtesan who dedicates her remaining days to decadent parties in the face of certain death. High-flying Violetta lives like every day is her last....
Face-to-face with John Carpino
Santa Clara student life and the professional sports world often seem overwhelmingly disconnected. Most of us weren’t blessed with the raw talent to give us a chance to play in the big leagues, and, for many of us, the business side of sports may seem even more complex. We constantly hear of big-name, recordbreaking contracts or large marketing dea...
SF Preps: Local stars honored at SFIAC Awards Banquet
The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club held its third annual High School Awards Banquet on Monday night, honoring athletes and coaches across generations and providing one of the rare occasions in which all three main San Francisco athletic leagues were connected under one roof. Honorees from the Academic Athletic Association, Bay Counties League...
Winters Theatre Company presents Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding
The Winters Theatre Company has selected “Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding as their spring dinner theatre production at The Palms Playhouse in Winters. There will be three performances: Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18, when doors will open at 6:30 p.m. (show beginning at 7 p.m.), and Sunday, May 19, when the doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the show will...
Italy’s great Ugo Tognazzi gets his due in Castro retrospective
On a glorious Saturday at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, you’ll feel the wheels coming off as Italy undergoes jarring change during a painful decade of transition. Of course, it happens on 35mm film. It’s the 1970s, and our guide is Ugo Tognazzi, who is government bureaucrat, corporate villain, suicidal chef, proudly gay and one very ridiculous ma...
SDIFF Celebrates Italian Liberation Day With ‘Rome Open City’
This Thursday the San Diego Italian Film Festival (SDIFF) will showcase the neorealist classic, “Rome Open City” ("Roma città aperta") at the Museum of Photographic Arts in honor of Italian Liberation Day. The neorealist movement began after World War II as Italian filmmakers looked to telling stories of ordinary people struggling to survive in a c...
Lincoln football coach, QB among San Francisco Italian Athletic Club honorees
The storybook Lincoln football season will continue in high fashion May 13 at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, where the organization’s third annual San Francisco High School Awards Banquet will be held. Modeled after the Downtown Athletic Club’s Heisman Trophy, Lincoln coach Phil Ferrigno and quarterback-defensive back Jovan Baker will be...
Spurs assistant Ettore Messina would ‘definitely’ want Kings job if offered
The winds of change swept through the Sacramento Kings organization on Thursday, when lead executive Vlade Divac decided to relieve Dave Joerger of his head coaching duties. Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton is one of the front-runners for the position, but San Antonio Spurs assistant Ettore Messina would reportedly be highly interested in...
Cinema Workshop On Italian Director Giuseppe Tornatore At LA Is This Saturday, April 6th
Cinema Workshop: Italian Directors. Giuseppe Tornatore - Burbank – Saturday, April 62:30 pm to 4:00 pm. $45. Register Here. During this cinema workshop, participants will watch clips from the best movies directed by famous Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore. The presenter will guide you through a discussion before and after each clip highlighting...
Musicarramba! With Valentina Ranalli
Thursday, April 4th 2019 at 7:00 PM PDT. Amici House, 250 W Date St., San Diego CA, 92101. Get tickets here. Valentina Ranalli is an Italian jazz singer and songwriter from Naples. She is noted for her purity of tone, phrasing, intonation, and improvisational ability. Valentina sings in English, Italian, Neapolitan, French, and Portuguese. She stud...
Juventus, Italy joins Juventus, Redwood City
Before European soccer became a household brand in the United States, there were a handful of big-name clubs that true soccer fans knew: Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid. On that list as well was Juventus FC, arguably — and I stress the word “arguably” — the biggest club in Italy, one that was originally founded in 1897. In 1956, the Juventus...