Louise Sculatti celebrated her 104th birthday on Sunday with family in Napa. She enjoys going out anywhere, anytime, especially for lunch, visiting friends and family, watching the Food Network, "The Price is Right," and old movies. Sculatti came from Italy in 1924, and lived in Petaluma for about 19 years. While there, she worked in a sil...
Francis Ford Coppola has launched an ambitious "Distant Vision" project as a "live cinema" experiment at his alma mater, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Coppola unveiled details of the multi-year project at a news conference Saturday, following his month-long collaboration with 75 UCLA students and faculty on "Distant Vision,"...
The aroma of fresh pasta sauce wafted through the crowd at La Quinta Civic Center Park Saturday during the opening day of Desert Arc's fourth annual Italian Festival. The two-day festival, which features plenty of Italian fare catered by local eateries — including myriad pasta dishes, meatball and sausage sandwiches and, of course, cannoli...
Sunday, April 19 • 2:00 pm • Admission $10@ The Italian Center, Carmichael Join the Italian Cultural Society's Travel Director, Patrizia Cinquini Cerruti, for this special seminar designed to give travelers to Italy strategies and practical ideas to make an Italian dream vacation a reality. Patrizia is a classroom instructor who has taug...
by Valerio Viale In 1994, the two sisters, Cristina and Laura Capitanio embarked in a one way flight from their foggy hometown, Bergamo – an urban conglomerate founded by Celtic tribes a few hundred years B.C. in Lombardy, region of Northern Italy – to the sunny Los Angeles – a metropolis risen up in an area which, accordingly to recent ar...
Il circolo PD San Francisco-Berkeley-Silicon Valley e' lieto di invitare tutta la comunità italiana della Bay Area a un brindisi per le festività. Il brindisi sara' un'occasione per conoscere il circolo, e discutere insieme di idee per la comunità e per la politica in Italia. L'evento si svolgerà nella sala meeting, indirizzo 50 8th St, San Francis...
by Valerio Viale In order to grasp the scope of the unique musical event, to be hosted at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on January 20th, we need to go back to 16th century in Venice, Italy. Back then, numerous charitable associations, composed of lay men and women alongside religious ones, were formed. Among those, the oldest...
The most successful, booming Little Italy neighborhood is not in New York, Boston or Chicago - it's in San Diego. While other Little Italy neighborhoods and ethnic communities across the nation have struggled to maintain their identities following the surge of immigration and subsequent flight of immigrant families to the suburbs, San Diego's...
VENICE - Many American municipalities have assumed the name of a European city — Rome, Ga., Paris, Ill., Reading, Pa. Few, however, have embraced their namesake like Venice. This weekend's 25th Annual Venice Feast and Carnival is expected to draw 20,000 visitors, one of the city's biggest events of the year. The festival is sponsored by the thriv...
On the occasion of A Traveling Archive, the exhibition on view thru July 31st dedicated to the great designer Vico Magistretti, join the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with Fondazione Italia, for an afternoon of fun, hands-on creativity and playful exploration of the world of design. Silvia Rigon, an Italian artist and creativ...
The sixth-annual Taste of Italy, a cultural-gastronomic event to benefit the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), will take place on October 11th in downtown Los Angeles. Taste of Italy showcases over fifty of the region's best restaurants and Italian and California-Italian wineries, as well as music entertainment, cooking demon...
La comunità italo-americana di San Francisco ha celebrato domenica 12 ottobre la 146^ edizione del Columbus Day, denominata "Italian Heritage Day", una delle più grandi nella sua storia per numero di partecipanti. Istituita nel lontano 1869 da immigrati provenienti da ogni parte d'Italia, la celebrazione si vanta di essere la prima mai org...