BAIA Holiday Party 2015
December 07, 2015 — 6:00pm to 8:30pm. Montesacro Pinseria Romana - 510 Stevenson Street - San Francisco,CA 94103 - Registration. Come out to SOMA to celebrate with us the upcoming holiday season! This special BAIA event. Treat yourself to delicious Italian food and wine glasses to celebrate in style. We will also hold...
Italian culture preserved at annual festival
As the strong and bright voice of tenor Pasquale Esposito rings out or the familiar scents of Italy's cuisine waft through the air at the fourth annual Festa Italiana, people will be enveloped in Italian culture. And that's the goal, according to organizers. The festa, which starts at 10 a.m. May 22 at the Lodi Grape Festival Grounds at 413 Ea...
Italian families continue annual tradition at East Portal Park
by Lance Armstrong A tradition continued at East Portal Park at 51st and M streets last weekend, as descendants of immigrants from Castanga in the Calabria region of Italy presented the 17th edition of the Calabrese Picnic. The Sunday afternoon and early evening gathering drew more than 100 people of Italian descent who enjoyed po...
Italian Festival Volunteer Coordinator
Desert Arc is excitedly planning its 4th Annual Italian Festival, where attendees will enjoy a variety of Italian foods and wines, wonderful music and entertainment, merchant vendors, raffles, contests, and a family fun zone. Volunteer Coordinator/Event Assistant; The Volunteer Coordinator will manage volunteers for the Italian Festival. T...
Expo demolitions leave fair traditions in limbo
With the recent demolition of two exhibit halls and the structure housing six nonprofit food booths, the August earthquake will have a long-lasting impact on the Napa Valley Expo. Napa's Sons of Italy Lodge has had a food booth at the fair since 1956. Losing its stand is less about how it impacts the organization financially and more about...
Elezioni Comites di San Francisco: i risultati
È terminato lo spoglio delle schede per le elezioni del nuovo Comites di San Francisco. Sulla base dei risultati, il Comitato Elettorale Circoscrizionale riunitosi presso il Consolato Generale ha proclamato i 12 eletti che andranno a formare il Comites. Hanno preso parte al voto 545 elettori. 53 schede sono risultate nulle o annullate. 3 e...
Joe Mantegna reads Hercules by Gabriele Tinti
When: Date: Saturday, March 05, 2016 at 3:00 PM Where: Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, 1023 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024 Poetry reading by actor Joe Mantegna in front of The Hope Herakles (Hercules) a Roman, 2nd- or 3rd-century marble sculpture copy after a Greek original of circa 370–350 B.C. by Skopas that is part of the Willia...
The San Francisco Bay Area Welcomes Lorenzo Ortona, San Francisco’s New Italian Consul General
By Catherine Accardi The Bay Area is pleased to welcome Lorenzo Ortona as the new San Francisco Consul General of Italy. Although headquartered in San Francisco, the Italian Consulate serves Northern and Central California, and a territory that extends from Hawaii to Alaska and Washington State. Consul General Ortona graduated wit...
A Renaissance Mystery Woman Enchants and Puzzles San Francisco
By Mauro Battocchi Behold this Renaissance lady. How would you describe her expression? For a woman of her era - the early Sixteenth century, she looks rather daring to me: she gazes straight into your eyes, as a modern young woman would do today. Her countenance appears to me coquettish, even mischievous. Her stunning elegance -...
The Italian artist and concert pianist Fabiola Addamo
Dear Readers,L'Italo-Americano's director, Simone Schiavinato, recently wrote that we must celebrate not only the discovery of America, but the Italian American spirit that pushes forward in Silicon Valley, startups that create high tech products made in Italy and relocated in California and other states in the U.S.A. where we live as Italians and...
Renewing Italian Pride in the US
SAN FRANCISCO - Even before the year 2012 had drawn to a close, the Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, the Honorable Mauro Battocchi, teamed up with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, to announce the beginning of "2013 Year of Italian Culture" in the United States, and specifically in the San Francisco Bay Area. The announcement was made in grand...
Fondazione Azzurra celebrates the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli’s The Prince
Fondazione Azzurra hosted a dinner in celebration of the conference "From Earthly Pleasures to Princely Glories in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds", which took place at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to honor the quincentenary of Machiavelli's The Prince. The Italian winery Le Corte dei Farfensi, owned by Antonell...