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19 August - 4 January 2016, Cantor Arts Centre, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford.   A major exhibition of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's last master works - 15 exquisitely rendered drawings made in 1777 of three ancient Greek temples in Paestum, southern Italy - opens at the Cantor Arts Center on August 19.Piranesi's Paestum: Master Drawings Uncover...

This October, Santa Monica celebrates Italian culture with Ciao Italia Santa Monica, the first-ever, citywide festival in honor of Italian Heritage Month. Exciting cultural events filled with food, fashion, film, music, and wine will take place across the city throughout October, and also raise funds for a variety of important nonprofit organi...

Thanks to the generosity of IAMLA Members, Founding Families, the City of Los Angeles, and corporate and community partners, we are pleased to announce that the IAMLA will be opening its doors in August. IAMLA Members will receive an invitation to a special, member's-only reception that will take place prior to the museum's publ...

The Knights of Saint Francis—the organization created by former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Angela Alioto—has scheduled a special Mass to be held on Friday, June 13, 2014.   The Mass will be celebrated on the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, the Portuguese-born, thirteenth-century Franciscan friar and patron saint of Padua,...

Date: Thursday, July 31, 2014 - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - Time: 8 PM. Location: Feinstein's, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street, San Francisco Organized by: Feinstein's This Hit at the Edinburgh Festival, MAC Award Winner and sold out show at Lincoln Center stars Adelmo Guidarelli and uses a vintage music hall style to weave well known opera ari...

Local author and food writer Maria Desiderata Montana has a new book being released this week about San Diego's Italian community and its cuisine.   "San Diego Italian Food: A Culinary History of Little Italy and Beyond" (History Press; $19.99) tells the story of how a large Italian community developed in what became known as Little Italy. A...

Il Comitato elettorale del Consolato di Los Angeles ha ammesso due liste alle prossime elezioni del Comites. si tratta della lista "Mondo democratico" e della lista "Ctim – Comitato tricolore italiani nel mondo". Questi i nomi dei candidati.   LISTA MONDO DEMOCRATICOPiana Marco, Eisenberg Elyse Debra, Fogu Claudio, Granata Eleonora, Longo V...

by Cookie Curci   Most of the important things I've learned in life- about caring, giving, strength and reliance, I've learned from my family. They have taught me valuable life lessons. Their lessons didn't come with preaching or lectures, they taught by example. Their hardworking, honest lifestyle set the goals and desires for future genera...

Casanova: Libertine Legend - a conference organized by Malina Stefanovska, University of California, Los Angeles, and Thomas Harrison, University of California, Los Angeles. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and the Department of Italian. Friday & Saturday, January 22–23, 2016, 9:30 a.m. -...

Feathery stalks of wild fennel have shot up along public fence lines and in vacant lots throughout the bay area.   Easy to miss alongside the showier riot of cherries, tulips, and poppies that also blossom and bloom this time of year, the pale green fennel is nonetheless our locally distinctive, if more humble, flag of spring. Like all flags...

By Megan Tevrizian and Laura McVicker Good news for pet owners in Little Italy: the downtown neighborhood is getting a dog park. The field connected to Washington Elementary School is already used by many dogs and their owners. Now, the San Diego Unified School District and the Little Italy Association have new plans to split the field at Am...

By Nickolas Marinelli   As festa season in the San Francisco Bay Area continues to unfold, Italians, Italian-Americans and Italophiles are gathering to gorge on all the Italianità they can get their hands on. From Sacramento to San Jose, and from Stockton to San Francisco, there is no shortage of Italian celebrations this summer.   Do...