Last of the old-time Italians in North Beach
A big black SUV drove up on Green Street in North Beach the other afternoon and stopped in front of Sotto Mare,, a noted Italian restaurant. The car windows rolled down and two people inside peered out with expectant smiles on their faces, as if they were about to discover something. Gigi Fiorucci looked up from his table in front of the restauran...
Fragile: an exhibition by Marta Dell'Angelo and Summer Lee
A collaboration between the IIC and the Chinese Culture Centre (CCC) of San Francisco. Fragile: an exhibition by Marta Dell'Angelo and Summer Lee. 18 February 2016, 6pm. Opening at IIC - 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco 94102. 10 March 2016 Finissage at CCC - 750 Kearny St #3, San Francisco 94108 On view Mon-Fri 10-4:30 until...
Salesforce CEO Backs Piazza St. Francis Petition – Only 200 More Signatures Needed!
Salesforce CEO's support of the Piazza St. Francis project in San Francisco made a big splash on Twitter and drove the petition to near completion. This promising project will enhance the Italian character of North Beach. After all, St. Francis was Italian and the piazza will be an enduring symbol of Italian culture and lifestyle.Only 200 more sign...
Cortina's Day
Under the auspices of the CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY IN LOS ANGELES with the support of REGIONE VENETO THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE in collaboration with THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TOURIST BOARD is pleased to invite you to Cortina's Day
Bruno Bozzetto: Animation, Maestro!
"Bruno Bozzetto: Animation, Maestro!" si chiama così la mostra dedicata al grande animatore, fumettista, regista, sceneggiatore e produttore cinematografico italiano. Voluta dal Walt Disney Family Museum e Graffiti Media Factory, in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco, e organizzata dal critico e storico del...
A journey through Italian advertising: from Carosello to today’s commercial
This workshop is designed for everyone who is interested in learning about the evolution of Italian Advertising. From the Italian Carosello to modern advertising, you will learn how Italian TV Commercials have evolved. When someone mentions "Made in Italy," the mind almost automatically goes to fashionable clothing, lux...
Feast and play at 29th annual Festa Italiana
by Allen Pierleoni Sure, there's plenty of good pizza in restaurants around town, but lovers of Italian cuisine can go beyond that staple and into more interesting fare at Festa Italiana. Heap your plates with Italian sausage and meatballs, pasta, chicken Parmesan, calamari, cannoli, gelato and much more. The festival of all-thing...
A first step into the new year looking back at 2014: a conversation with Mauro Battocchi, Italian Consul in San Francisco
2014 has been a long and full year for the Italian community in the Bay Area. As moments and people marked the last twelve months, the end of the year is the time when people look back to find what is worthy to bring with them in the new one. We talked about this and more with Mauro Battocchi, who started his mandate as Italian Consul in S...
Reading between the lines: Learning the Italian culture through literature
by Michele Pluss Renowned science fiction author Ray Bradbury once said, "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them". Bradbury may not have been Italian - and we can't fault him for that - but he did have a point about the importance of books in culture. Intentional or not, every book carr...
Garry Marshall - Awakening the Italian in me
Hollywood sells the American dream to the whole world, a clear example of that is the movie Pretty Woman, which ends the modern Cinderella fable with the line "This is Hollywood, the land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't, but keep on dreaming". If you were to ask all the people that come to Los Angeles, both from United States and from...
Images captured by Santi Visalli’s lens find new home at CSU Channel Islands
Intently, as if preparing for a final exam, Jaclyn Zaragoza studied the stark, black-and-white photos on the walls, photos that described an America a quarter century before she was born. Martin Luther King Jr. Richard Nixon. Bobby Kennedy, ice skating with Ethel just weeks before his assassination. Idealistic young people p...
Representing human body - Art and science in Italian Renaissance
LOS ANGELES - Behind the worldly renowned Renaissance of painting, sculpture, music and architecture that developed in Italy and then spread throughout Europe, there was a parallel and less known cultural movement: a "scientific Renaissance". The desire for knowledge characterized in those centuries is indeed at the origin of the most important dis...