Ciao, Amici! After Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo, our traditional Fall event, Circolo Italiano is now opening our Winter schedule with two delightful events. We start with a combination of a fabulous Matinee at the Opera and a lovely champagne luncheon at La Cumbre Country Club on Sunday, Nov. 8th.   For this event Circolo Italiano is j...

by Matt Barrows   The chants of "Eddie D! Eddie D!" from the crowd outside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium heralded the announcement that was made later inside.  Eddie DeBartolo Jr., who won five Super Bowls when he owned the 49ers but who has been a conspicuous missing piece from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, finally was voted in on...

Il 15 e 16 novembre 2012 si terranno rispettivamente a San Francisco e a Palo Alto due eventi di promozione della moda Made in Italy, previsti nell'ambito del Programma di Promozione ICE.Location degli eventi saranno i due negozi Wilkes Bashford di proprietà della famiglia di dettaglianti Mitchell.Wilkes Bashford è stato il primo dettagliante ad in...

The SF Gate quoted me saying this yesterday and since then I've been asked if I was kidding. Yet, there is no joke about it. People identify India, Israel and Ireland as the IT countries. But there's a fourth "I" for high-tech: Italy. The Italian Innovation Day and the whole "Italy Tech Week" showcase this reality. Often it's difficult to understa...

In collaboration with Luce Cinecittà, Rome, Centro Studi-Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini/Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to present a retrospective of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most iconoclastic and influential figures in Italian cinema in the ge...

Un genio teramano si nasconde nella Silicon Valley. Si chiama Vincenzo Di Nicola, ha 33 anni. È ingegnere informatico e si è trasferito negli Stati Uniti mentre era ancora studente all'università. Bologna, altri tempi. A San Francisco, una nuova vita. Lì ha fondato, insieme a un collega italo-americano, l'azienda GoPago, nota per aver sviluppato un...

Luciano Ligabue has always claimed to have a truly unique audience. Not only "beautiful", nor even just "different" from all the others, but really "particular"; a public whose story deserves to be told. Emanuela Papini rises to the challenge with a book which began as a testimony to the reciprocal love and gratitude between the singer-songwriter...

Warming Up with Luciano Berio- The brilliant young pianist Adam Tendler, visiting from New York, joins Sarah Cahill in a warm-up concert featuring Luciano Berio's piano compositions before they perform the same program a week later at the Italian Academy in New York.   Among the Berio pieces they will play are Touch (1991) for piano four-han...

On January 20, 2015, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, over 200 members of the Italian Community, families and organizations joined together to greet the new Italian Consulate General in Los Angeles Antonio Verde, as he begins his four year term of service to the community.   This was his first visit to Orange County and to the Bowers Museu...

In the new exhibition Sinatra: An American Icon, visitors will have a chance to look deeper into the life and legacy of Frank Sinatra. In the new exhibition Sinatra: An American Icon, debuting this March at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at Lincoln Center, visitors will have a chance to loo...