October 23, 2015, Friday 7:30 PM - 9:30 PMMarines Memorial Club San Francisco - 609 Sutter Street - San Francisco, California 94102 Humanities West presents Dawn of the Italian Renaissance (1275-1400), a two-day program of lectures, discussions, and musical performances exploring the rich contributions of early Italian Renaissance a...

From Tuscany to the United States, with some special events in San Francisco: the celebrations for the 950th anniversary since the first stone of the Pisa Cathedral was laid and the 450th anniversary of the birth of Galileo Galilei got just big.   In fact, starting from this occurrence, a cultural exchange is taking place between the town of...

Dopo il grande successo avuto a Manhattan, nei mesi di giugno e luglio, ora il progetto interattivo di Delverde si sposta dalla East coast alla West coast, nella baia di San Francisco. Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Alessi Showroom e Williams-Sonoma sono alcune delle location scelte per ospitare le lezioni di degustazione.   Delverde, aziend...

By Mauro Battocchi   We are deeply honored to have His Excellency Claudio Bisogniero visit San Francisco on February 13 and join us for a luncheon organized by the Italian Athletic Club in North Beach (SFIAC) and by the new online channel for the Italians of Northern California, "La Scintilla."   You are cordially invited to be with u...

A special performance by the Italian Surf Academy, who will present The American Dream: an audio-visual journey into the movie culture of 1960s Italy! Featuring music from Spaghetti western, noir and crime movies originally composed by Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Carlo Rustichelli, Riz Ortolani, Piero Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli, and more. &nbs...

The upcoming 56th San Francisco International Film Festival will feature a wide selection of diverse and innovative cinema from all over the world to the Bay Area audience. The SFIFF is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. The Festival will run from April 25 to May 9 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre and New People C...

By Elizabeth Vasile Genius Loci is a Latin term, meaning spirit of place. Geographers, historians, and other scholars use it to refer to that element, or quality, or founding principle, that makes a place uniquely itself, that pervades or gives rise to, as a spirit would, all that takes place in an area. One might think of it as a geographic genom...

By Alex Hochman At 6 p.m. on a recent freezing cold Tuesday in perhaps The City's foggiest neighborhood, one restaurant was already quoting a 45-minute wait and the buzz inside was palpable.   An extraverted, well-dressed host with a thick Italian accent greeted patrons with shouts of "buono sera!" that sounded so genuine one might think he...

Donna Scala, a dynamic chef and restaurateur who influenced Northern California cuisine with Bistro Don Giovanni in Napa and Scala's Bistro in San Francisco, died of a brain tumor at her home in Napa on Tuesday. She was 60 years old.   A fixture on the Bay Area food scene, Mrs. Scala was known for her vibrancy as well as her cooking. She gr...

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera, the world premiere of Two Women / La Ciociara (2015) raises enduring and complex questions about love, loyalty, and the legacy of war.   This opera takes its name from the eponymous Italian novel by Alberto Moravia that was adapted for the screen by Vittorio De Sica, thus making cinematic history when Sop...