Mangia! Italian-Americans donated to Youth Ending Hunger Club
The Orange County Italian-American Association recently donated $250 to the Goshen School District Youth Ending Hunger Club. Representing the association, Lee Quaranta presented the check to Sarah Scoville, the club advisor, as several student members looked on. Quaranta congratulated the members on the good work that they do in helping to feed lo...
Dalai Lama names Italian surgeon 'Unsung Hero of Compassion'
The Dalai Lama on Friday gave an Italian plastic surgeon the 'Unsung Hero of Compassion 2014' award for his humanitarian efforts to help victims with birth defects or who were permanently scarred. Paolo Morselli, the founder and president of Interethnos Interplast Italy, was handed his award by the the Buddhist monk himself at a ceremony i...
Do the right thing. Los Angeles e il rinascimento dei giovani (talenti) Italiani
di Gabriele Scarfone Un leggero sole bacia le enormi strade deserte della città degli angeli. Los Angeles, alle 7 del mattino di una pigra Domenica, sembra un campo di battaglia di una guerra appena conclusa. L'energia negativa e positiva che si percepisce rende il panorama tetro ma molto speranzoso. Questa è una città complicata,...
John’s Garden celebrates 40 years
It was just like old times at the 40th anniversary celebration for John's Garden restaurant on June 28. John Musante, who just celebrated his 96th birthday the day before, and his son Jim, who ran the business until 2012, joined current owner Boyen Kinov, trading stories and anecdotes with old and new friends and customers at Malibu County Mar...
Eva Vellutini Zaehringer, who married into Guerneville-area ranching family, dies at 100
TV's 1960s sitcom "Green Acres" likely struck a chord with Eva Zaehringer, who was a fashionable San Francisco hairstylist when she fell in love with a west Sonoma County rancher back before World War II, moved into his hillside home and adjusted to life without electricity, a telephone or access to refined culture. "I remember as a kid sh...
Italian festival coming to Central Park in Lakewood Ranch
by Sabrina Rocco Central Park will celebrate Italian fare and folklore Saturday when it hosts the second Festa Italiana. "Last year, we had a really successful festival," said Lori Basilone, director of community activities for Lakewood Ranch. "We had it over Columbus Day weekend. It was a little warm. This year, we decided to move it...
Marinetti a New York
The Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles ApertaMente, Milano & i-ItalyTV, New York Under the Auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles present "MARINETTI A NEW YORK", A film by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory When: TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015 @ 6:30 PMWhere: Italian Cultural Institute, 1023 Hilga...
Andrea Del Sarto and the Renaissance – 9 June, 6.30 PM
Julian Brooks, associate curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will talk about the Florentine Renaissance master Andrea Del Sarto (1486-1530), the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Getty and at the Frick Collection, New York, that brings into focus the artist's inventiveness, creative process, and workshop practice. More...
Facciamo Sognare i Californiani con Nuovo Cinema Italiano, Unisciti al Crowdfunding di BAIA
di Mauro Battocchi Complimenti a BAIA per aver lanciato una campagna di crowdfunding per il NICE (New Italian Cinema) 2015, il festival del nuovo cinema italiano a San Francisco che avrá luogo dall'11 al 15 novembre. Per gli italiani ed italofili della Bay Area questa è una straordinaria opportunità per incontrare attori e registi e nel co...
Orvieto & the San Francisco Connection
How does the striking city of Orvieto, Italy, a comune populated since Etruscan times, connect to San Francisco? The connection is easier than it might seem. Both are known world-wide for their iconic topography, hilly terrain, quaint charm, and, as seen in this photograph, foggy mists. Both are dramatic and romantic. And then there is the...
Digging Into L.A.'s Italian Past
by Nicholas Slayton The El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument offers a number of attractions. Visitors can stroll down Olvera Street and buy kitschy goods, check out the city's oldest building or grab a meal at one of the area's Mexican restaurants. They can inspect the monuments to the city's founding in 1781, drop by the Chinese A...
Bringing Tuscany to San Diego
When Antonio Bandini was 15 years old, he enrolled in a watercolor painting class in his hometown of Livorno, Italy. One day his teacher approached him and expressed a desire to enter one of his paintings in an art competition in Milan. Bandini was interested, but concerned. When would he get the painting back? The teacher explained that i...