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"This excellent film fills a real gap in our understanding of the complexity of the Italian immigration experience," says Carol McKibben, a historian at Stanford University, of our film, "Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California".   In it, we explore how Italian immigrants to California found economic success and social acce...

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by Robert Gallo   Convivio, San Diego's Little Italy non-profit organization, was founded in 2003 to promote all things Italian. It was formed to encourage and promote closer ties to the study of Italian language, arts, and culture.   Sponsored by businesses and restaurants in San Diego the organization has hosted a myriad of literary...

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"Welcome to feStival 2014," reads Victor Laruccia's website announcement; "It's an Italian Party in the Piazza." So begins the 8th Annual San Diego Italian Film Festival beginning October 16 and running through the 25th.   The first offering is Anni Felici, Daniele Luchetti's discerning look at his childhood through the antics and acting of...

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Location: Sutter Room, The Regency Center, 1270 Sutter Street, San Francisco Date: Saturday, March 14, 2015 Time: 6pm - midnight Welcome to another year of La Dolce Vita! La Dolce Vita is La Scuola's annual spring fundraising gala. It's more than a fundraiser, it's the not-to-be-missed Italian party of the year with drinks, dinner, dancing, as w...

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by Robert Gallo   Approximately 20 years ago, Paola Bonacina Benzoni, and her husband left Italy when he came to work at the University of California at San Diego on a special project; lucky for her clients, she brought her flair and expertise for Italianate style and design with her.   "My husband and I miss Italy very much, but we'v...

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From spaghetti-eating contests to a world-class bocce tournament, this Amador County Gold Rush town showcased its rich Italian heritage for the 136th year in a row over the weekend.   Founded in 1881 by hotelier Bartolomeo Bianchetti, the 125-member Italian Benevolent Society of Amador County has celebrated Italian independence day ever sinc...

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AVVISO DI ASSUNZIONE E BANDO   fonte: Italian Embassy in the USA  

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Si è chiusa pochi giorni fa la mostra al J. Paul Getty Museum dedicata alla scoperta dei giardini rinascimentali e della loro storia attraverso le immagini di manoscritti illuminati.   Sia che adornassero grandiose ville o il retro di umili abitazioni, i circa 1400-1600 giardini diffusi all'epoca erano coltivati con cura da persone di ogni r...

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by Robert Gallo   Although San Diego's Little Italy is almost 100 years old, it has never seen the growth it is experiencing lately.   Today it has become evident that Italy is coming to San Diego. New restaurants have come, and some have gone, but today the Little Italy Association, Officers of the Board; President Steve Galasso, Vic...

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by Celina Lozano   Giuliana Regina from Whittier may seem like the typical young adult. She attends college with the hope to someday go to law school, and aids her parents in their restaurant during her free time.   However, Giuliana has a responsibility that only a few others share: representing young Italian American women in this y...

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by Elisabetta Russo   Nato nel New Jersey, a poco più di un miglio di distanza da Frank Sinatra, Robert Santelli è un giornalista, storico del rock & blues e insieme un autore di numerosi testi incentrati sulla storia della musica americana - The Big Book Of Blues, The Bob Dylan Scrapbook e Greetings From E Street: The Story Of Bruce Spr...

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During the late teens and into the 1920s, Italians began settling in Lincoln Heights, a neighborhood east of downtown and considered the oldest neighborhood in Los Angeles. Once home to the city's wealthiest residents some of whose stately Victorian mansions have been preserved today, by the late teens and into the 1920s, large numbers of Italian i...

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