Italian Chamber Music - Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"
Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival with the Carmel Bach Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute present "Italian Chamber Music - Vivaldi's Four Seasons". Program:Ottorino Respighi - Notturno for Piano; Gioacchino Rossini - Fantasie for Clarinet and Piano; Gian Carlo Menotti - Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano; Antonio Vivaldi - The...
The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA) to present Taste of Italy
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 demonstrations...
Longtime restaurateur Romano Della Santina of Marin Joe’s dies at 86
By Stephanie Weldy A service is set for Monday for Romano Della Santina — a longtime owner of Marin Joe's who'd been with the restaurant since its 1954 inception. Mr. Della Santina, a 61-year Marin County resident, died July 9 from a heart attack. The San Rafael was 86. His wife of 65 years, Maria, and other family members were at his side....
Cortina D’Ampezzo – Il gioiello delle Dolomiti
Tra le montagne della Regione Veneto, poco lontano dal confine con l'Austria, svetta Cortina. Conosciuta soprattutto come località sciistica e meta dei vacanzieri della stagione invernale, Cortina è uno dei gioielli d'Italia nonché patrimonio dell'UNESCO. Eppure, nonostante sia tra le mete preferite dagli Italiani, rimane ancora poco conosciuta ai...
Italian Story “Two Women” Trending in Bay
You can join the San Francisco Opera this season for the World Premiere of La Ciociara – "Two Women" in English – a story about the cruelty of war, loss of innocence and intense love of a mother for a daughter. Nicola Luisotti, director of both the San Francisco Opera since September 2009 and music director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Na...
Little Italy hotter than ever
By Michele Parente As he has on most nights for the last 46 years, Nick Pecoraro was watching the world go by on Wednesday from the porch of his ornately embellished two-story house on India Street, right at the foot of the Little Italy sign. The Sicilian-born Pecoraro, 73, is a reigning member of the historic neighborhood's old g...
What is a Vernacular? How Dante invented Italian
Albert Russell Ascoli, Terrill Dis-tinguished Professor, teaches in the Department of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley. His principal field of research and teaching is Medieval and Early Modern Italian culture from the 13th to the 16th centuries. He is the author of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge University Press, 2008).&nb...
Ferlinghetti graces opening of new Italian center digs
by Tony Bravo With real estate at a premium in San Francisco, there's been a lot of creative repurposing of spaces in the city of late, especially in the arts. This was evident at the grand reopening of the Italian Cultural Institute (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) on Wednesday in Opera Plaza. Previously in North Beach, this center...
UNICO holds Annual Brian Piccolo Award Ceremony
By Steven Billups The Rehoboth Area Chapter and the Delmarva Chapter of UNICO presented its Brian Piccolo Award and Scholarships Nov. 13 at St. Edmond Catholic Church's Fellowship Hall. This award, established in 1977, is given to a local senior athlete of Italian-American heritage who exhibits the character traits modeled by the legendary footbal...
Riding the Rails Italian Style: Italian Wheels on the Streets of San Francisco
Have you ever noticed the jaunty vintage streetcars rolling along Market Street and around the Embarcadero? Have you ever wondered why some of them have foreign identifications on them? That would be because they are vintage streetcars from around the world, including Milan, Italy! In 1962 San Francisco county voters approved several bond...
Carnevale at Newport Italian
February 13, Friday 6:00-8:00pm – Celebrate one of the most exciting Italian events of the year with family and friends at this fun party. You'll enjoy home made frittelle di carnevale (fried desserts) and Italian wine. "Carnevale in Italy is a huge winter festival celebrated with parades, masquerade balls, entertainment, music, and parties. Childr...
Luisa Del Giudice presenta le “Watts Towers” di Sabato Rodia, opera creativa che ispira l'intera umanità
La storia di Sabato “Simon” Rodia è certamente una delle più affascinanti e allo stesso tempo meno conosciute delle tante imprese d’immigrazione italiana negli Stati Uniti. Le sue “Watts Towers”, le tre torri e complesso scultoreo costruito a Los Angeles nell'arco di trent'anni (dal 1921 al 1954), rappresentano un'opera a...