Credited as "one of the most important showcases for the contemporary guitar" by The San Francisco Chronicle, International Guitar Night (IGN) is a long-standing Bay Area tradition known for its friendly and informal ambiance, as well as its exceptional guitar performances. The Italian guitarist Pino Forastiere will be one of the special g...
READ MOREBy Kim Westerman How is it that there are so many variations on the theme of flour, water, yeast, tomatoes and cheese? What makes pizza "authentic?" This food with Italian origins is now an American staple, and there are more styles than you can shake a stick at, the most common in the Bay Area being traditional Italian and Californian. T...
READ MOREWednesday september 17, h 19,00Fratellanza Club - 1140 66th St, Oakland 94608 Michael Parenti award-winning political writer with a sweet, comical and bitter memoir: Waiting for Yesterday Open to the Public - Light Refreshments Served$5 Suggested Donation - Beverages, No Host Bar Sponsored by: The Western Regional Chapter...
READ MOREPaolo Nutini has announced several high profile media appearances and he will also be launching a North American headline tour in September in support of his new album. Nutini's new studio album, "Caustic Love", will be released in North America on September 6th. The album has already topped the charts around the world including in the UK, Ireland...
READ MOREby Mauro Battocchi Luca Vullo, an Italian gestures specialist and filmmaker, is now a visiting professor of Italian Gestures at Mills College in Oakland for six weeks from the 26th of June to the 7th of August. As those familiar with Italian culture and language can tell you, i gesti italiani are impressively varied in their manifestations...
READ MOREJoin the Italian community in the East Bay for the A's Italian Heritage Night on Friday, August 7th at 7:05PM at the Oakland A's Coliseum. A ticket to the festivities includes a pregame event in the Eastside Club (a new perk this year), an Athletics branded Italian heritage scarf, complementary Italian food and a reserved ticket at Field Level. &n...
READ MOREby Flora Tsapovsky The trend of lucrative collaborations has reached an unexpected frontier – charcuterie! The superstar of everything Italian Mario Batali and Belcampo Meat Co, the prime Northern Californian destination for prime cuts, announced a gourmet 'collection' of collaborative salumi called "Belcampo by Mario Batali". The...
READ MORECentered on her ongoing investigations into the politics of technology, Rhonda Holberton's multimedia installation, The Italian Navigator has Landed in the New World, imagines the body as seen by the machine on the other side of the screen. Utilizing the austere aesthetics of digital semantics found in image recognition algorithms, the wor...
READ MOREIn a sudden, surprise announcement Friday morning, U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, is resigning. She is set to become the first woman president of the University of California's "10-campus," education system in its "145-year history," the L.A. Times reported. Read more Source: http://www.bizpac...
READ MOREGet your group together and come enjoy cari amici, great food, Fratellanza vino, joyful music and song, fun time and happy memories to cherish. Co-hosted by the Fratellanza Men and Women Chaired by: Rich and Mary AnnSaturday SEPTEMBER 20, 2014Cocktails 6:00pm Dinner 7:00pmDance Music by George Campi Band Read more Source...
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