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I eventually lost count of how many people recommended “The Bear” to me. After weeks of avoiding the explosively popular show, I let peer pressure win and was glad I did. Besides, even if the story bordered on contrived, it made up for it with exceptional acting. Plus, I’m from Chicago, and while “The Bear” relied on a few too many Chicago cliches,...

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Neapolitan conductor Gaetano Merola, aided by San Francisco’s Italian community, founded the San Francisco Opera a century ago. For its 100th season, the Company has planned a rich variety of the innovative and the traditional, with two newly-commissioned works, new productions of old favorites, and established European operas that had their Americ...

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Castro residents now have a new spot from which to pick up fresh baked pastries, desserts, and coffee. Poesia Cafe opened earlier this month in the former Reveille Coffee space at 4072 18th Street. Hoodline broke the news of 13-year-old Poesia's expansion earlier this year. The expansion was made possible after Reveille Coffee closed in the next-do...

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Even for those without a series of colliding vowels in their last name, North Beach was open to all comers Saturday for the Festa Coloniale Italiana, an event showcasing how San Francisco is continuing to find its way back from the darkest days of the pandemic. Beyond a chance to knock back Aperol spritzes in a packed Washington Square Park, or wat...

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Saturday August 27, 2022 at San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (SFIAC - 1630 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA) (11am - 6pm). FESTA COLONIALE ITALIANA is now in its second decade. The event takes place on Stockton St., adjacent to Washington Square Park, in the heart of North Beach. The Festa Coloniale Italiana is the only authentic traditional I...

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The Leonardo da Vinci Society and the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF) Bay Area Chapter are seeking applications for the Leonardo Award 2022. This award was established in 2019 on the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death to recognize the outstanding contributions of Italian/Italian American early career...

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Pier Paolo Pasolini is best known as one of the most celebrated and controversial filmmakers of twentieth-century Italy. But beyond his cinematic achievements, he was equally prolific as a novelist, poet, painter, actor, literary critic, and public intellectual. An iconoclastic critic of bourgeois social norms and an artistic maverick whose unortho...

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Saturday, August 27, 2022 - 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE. San Francisco Italian Athletic Club | 1630 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA 94133. The Festa Coloniale Italiana is the ONLY authentic traditional Italian festival held in San Francisco. It is a free, fun, family event that is open to the public. Enjoy live music from the Festa stage –...

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The dining room at Baonecci, a newly opened Italian restaurant in Frisco, Texas, is molto bene right now. This San Francisco transplant has only been open a couple weeks, but the place is nearly full on this Friday night, crackling with the kind of giddy electricity that so often accompanies the opening of something new. Walter Gambaccini, owner an...

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“The Charming Taste of Europe” is pleased to present a restaurant week in San Francisco, collaborating with a variety of restaurants from July 25th to July 31st. Throughout the week, reputable restaurants in the city will promote wines from the Consorzio Tutela Vini D’Abruzzo highlighting the quality of viticulture throughout the region. Wines incl...

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