Palazzo Strozzi High School Renaissance Award Ceremony
The Palazzo Strozzi High School Renaissance Award winners will be recognized by the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA . The mission of the foundation is to preserve the values of openness and creativity of the Renaissance, one of the foundations of the Enlightenment and of modern Western societies. The winners of the competition travel to Ita...
Italia-USA, Alemanno a Los Angeles e San Francisco
Roma - Con l'intervento alla convention dei Cavalieri di Colombo, davanti a una platea di oltre duemila delegati provenienti da tutti gli Stati Uniti e ad altri ospiti internazionali, ha avuto inizio la missione del sindaco Gianni Alemanno a Los Angeles e San Francisco. L'intervento del sindaco ha ripercorso la quasi centenaria relazione tra la com...
Francis Ford Coppola to Direct Italian-American Saga
by Tatiana Siegel Godfather fans rejoice. Francis Ford Coppola is returning to the Italian-American experience for his next directing effort. The Godfather helmer is readying an untitled film that will chronicle an Italian-American family and span from the 1930s to the 1960s. Coppola became one of the most celebrated director...
OC International Fair: Eat, Drink, and Be Italian
The Italian Spirit is alive and well, and it was in full swing at the city of Orange. International Fair. This past Labor Day weekend, despite the scorching summer heat, the Fair turned out record crowds. With musicians playing everything from Salsa to Rock, people of all ages cruised Orange circle and its adjoining streets, buying everyt...
Marcello Moccia, trades Italy for California for photographic opportunities
by Robert Gallo Abraham Lincoln once told of an Old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams," indicating that doing so could be risky. Ignoring this sage advice, Italian Photographer, Marcello Moccia, born and raised in Naples, Italy, "one of the most beautiful cities in...
L’esperienza del Matrimonio al Consolato Generale d’Italia in San Francisco
di Mauro Battocchi Se desiderate sposarvi presso un Consolato italiano la prima cosa da fare e' la cosiddetta "istanza celebrazione matrimonio consolare". E' un documento che dovrete sottoscrivere entrambi, e che dovrete presentare di persona all'ufficio consolare, oppure inviare per posta, fax o email con allegata la fotocopia dei vostri document...
The Godmother: Alison Martino Preserves the History of Old LA and the Sunset Strip
By Kyveli Diener When Alison Martino enters a room, it's as if someone flipped the switch on a spotlight. Maybe it's her creative energy, which has been channeled into television, music, writing and interior design. Maybe it's the shiny blonde locks, sun-kissed skin and boho chic style that give her away as the ultimate native Angeleno. &...
Fiera del Libro +
La Libreria Pino insieme con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura sono orgogliosi di presentare la prima Fiera del Libro + San Francisco! In questo evento di 10 giorni sarranno presentati libri, cd e dvd importati direttamente dall'Italia. La Fiera del Libro + San Francisco avrà luogo presso l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura , situato a 601 Van Nes...
Artigianato, tecnologia e design: l'innovazione si fa bellezza
Costruire un ponte tra l'eccellenza del Made in Italy nel creare bellezza e la capacità industriale e tecnologia della Silicon Valley. È questo il fulcro del progetto Making in Italy-Making in Usa: Artisanship, Technology and Design. Innovating with Beauty, che si terrà dall'11 al 24 giugno a San Francisco nell'ambito dell'Anno della Cultura Italia...
Announcing la Festa di Ferragosto!!!
Join us for a great Italian Festa at Montecito's beautiful Lower Manning Park for a fabulous, FUNTASTIC Festa di Ferragosto! And, even better, it will benefit our local students by helping us raise much-needed money for our Scholarship Fund. For those of you who have no idea what Ferragosto is all about, please scroll all the way to the en...
Italian Family Festa comes to San Jose Aug. 23 and 24
By Leeta-Rose Ballesterl Residents have an opportunity to enjoy the "sweet Italian life" and to help preserve a piece of history at the Italian Family Festa, sponsored by the Italian American Heritage Foundation. The Festa, which takes place on Aug. 23 and 24 at Guadalupe River Park, is free and begins at 11 a.m. both days, and closes at 8 p.m. Sa...
Museo Italo Americano Planning Move To Northeast Waterfront
Museo Italo Americano, dedicated to Italian and Italian American art and culture, plans to move from Fort Mason, where it has rented space for the past 30 years of its 37 years in existence, to 940 Battery St. in the northeast waterfront area of the FiDi. It owns its future building outright via a donation, and the move could happen as ear...