Silicon Valley's most productive commodites was once the prune!
by Cookie Curci One of the Silicon Valley's most productive commodities was once the prune industry. Many of us today can trace our family roots to those early years when immigrants to the Santa Clara Valley sharecropped or owned their own fruit ranches. My grandparents were among these young, inspiring ranchers who came to this valle...
Yerba Buena Center For The Arts Celebrates Italian Musician Luciano Chessa With A Retrospective
Luciano Chessa has had a long, rich career as both musicologist and musician. Now, after releasing six albums and spending thirty-plus years as a composer and performer, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is rewarding him with his own retrospective on April 30. Born on the Italian island of Sardinia in 1971 to scientist parents, Chessa li...
16th Annual Scalabrini House Seminary Fundraiser Banquet
The Scalabrini House Seminary will celebrate on April 26, 2014, at Casa Italiana its annual Fundraiser Banquet for the Scalabrinian Seminarians organized by local Scalabrinian priests in collaboration with the Scalabrini Fundraiser Committee. This year's 16th anniversary celebration will consist of a traditional banquet to raise funds to s...
Ferragosto celebrations with L’Italo-Americano
by Silvia Simonetti What is your idea of a perfect Ferragosto, the traditional Italian mid-summer feast? To this question, many of you would probably answer: good weather, good food, good wine and limoncello, good espresso coffee, good music, and – last but not least – a group of good friends. Being an Italian American newspaper a...
Bob Budelli motors about his home town of Menlo Park in 1937 Touring Cadillac
by Linda Hubbard Gulker There's a whole lot of Menlo Park in Bob Budelli. He lives today next door to the house where he grew up near downtown. When he went off to college at Arizona State, he roomed with M-A classmate Rob Dell'Ergo. His three boys all went through local schools. With his Dad, he stays active in the Italian A...
Cavalieri honored with South San Francisco Historical Society award
The South San Francisco (SSF) Historical Society presented Basil Cavalieri the Victor Jon Feudale award at its 32nd Annual Historical Society Banquet on Oct. 21st, according to a press release. Basil Cavalieri, 83 and a long-time business owner, community volunteer and philanthropist, the release continued, was acknowledged for his outstan...
Sicilian festival brings out nostalgia
By Jonathan Horn Margaret Balistreri Cesarini was just a teenager when she moved from Sicily to San Diego around 50 years ago. She's been back to her home country about 15 times since then. The trips are an experience that leave her with mixed feelings. "I'm torn between two lovers — I'm an American citizen but I was born in Ital...
Save the Date: All Puccini's Heroines (Opera Gala) - Sunday October 26th, 2014 at 3:00 p.m.
The Italian American Opera Foundation, that for the past two years has produced the Italian Opera Festival ™ (IOF) in Orange County, has announced today the program for its expanded 2014/2015 season, with a preview concert on October 26th at the Performing Art Center of Soka University, in the marvelous City of Aliso Viejo, and ...
Food & Sustainability
When: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 At 6:30 pm Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024Organized by : IIC, In collaboration with : Various partners (Diversi partner) - Entrance : Free A round table discussion on nutrition and diet that supports sustainability. Organized by the IIC in collabo...
Carnevale comes to Orange County to benefit Emilia Romagna
Orange County is ready for a tribute to Carnevale, the most famous Venetian Festival, celebrated in Italy every year since antiquity. The event is a partnership between the Orange County Medical Association, a non-profit voluntary physician member organization designed to promote "the art and science of medicine, the protection of public h...
Boys’ & Girls’ Towns of Italy Honors Tom Albanese At its Ball of the Year
Boys' & Girls' Towns of Italy (BGTI), a nonprofit that empowers war refugee, migrant and at-risk youth living on the streets, announced the honoree of its Ball of the Year to be held on Saturday, April 26 at The Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. BGTI will present the Man of the Year Award to Tom Albanese, Director of Business Developme...
Concerto e Festa di Natale: The Leonardo da Vinci Society - December 7, 2014 at 3:00 pm
The Leonardo da Vinci Society Cordially invites its members and guests to a Holiday Concert and Party PROGRAM: HOMAGE TO ITALY - FRANZ LISZT (from "Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage: Italie"): - Sposalizio– Il Pensieroso– Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa– Tre Sonetti del Petrarca:– Sonetto 47: "Benedetto sia il giorno"– Sonetto104: "Pace non...