A New Year and a New Consul General in LA
You are invited to meet the new Italian Consul General in Los Angeles! ANTONIO VERDE Welcoming Reception Tuesday, January 20, 2015 4:30 - 8:00 PM Bowers Museum - 2002 N. Main Street, Santa Ana Join the Orange County community of leaders, restaurateurs and key members from businesses, Italian American organizations an...
Fifteenth Annual Benefit For North Beach Citizens
by Mauro Aprile Zanetti It was spring 2000 when film director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola (currently a successful wine producer in the Napa Valley as well), came out with an idea that promptly involved poet, activist and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers co-founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jeannette Hether...
The Tower Records Project in Sacramento
"It was more than music." This is the slogan of the campaign launched by Hot Italian, a modern Italian-American joint venture Pizzeria in Sacramento, in collaboration with the Tower Records Project. The project was established to fund the preservation of Tower-related history donated to the Center for Sacramento History by Tower founder and Sacram...
Fugazi mantiene la promessa
by Mauro Battocchi We last left our guest post series with John Fugazi, the magnanimous Italian benefactor of the Italian community in San Francisco. Today, Nickolas Marinelli, the Northern California Editor for L'Italo-Americano, continues the Fugazi story and tells how he kept his promise to the community. Local news was rarely seen on...
Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design
Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778) was a printmaker, architect, antiquarian, art dealer, theorist, and designer—one of the foremost artistic personalities of the 18th century, whose views of Rome remain the city's defining image. Fresh, thought-provoking, and innovative, Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design sets out to show the range of the artist...
Neo-avant-garde frontiers: 50 years of group 63
The Group 63, protagonist of the Italian Neo-avant-garde - so called to distinguish it from historical 20th century Avant-gardes - was established in October of 1963 in Palermo. It brought together poets, writers and academics interested in debating aesthetic theories and in experimenting new forms of expression. The conference, with the p...
Local Profile: Christopher Paluso – Illustrated Sports
by Andrew Bagley Everything happens in the perfect time space sequence. Ask local artist and illustrator Christopher Paluso. He is an example that somehow one thing leads to another occurring miraculously at just the right time. Reviewing his life experience is an attestation to this phenomenon. Chris wouldn't be here today in America if i...
David O. Russell, 'The Great Beauty' to Headline Los Angeles-Italia Film Fest
American Hustle director David O. Russell will headline the lineup at the upcoming Los Angeles-Italia Film Festival, organizers said Monday. Also on tap for the event that highlights the work of Italian and Italian-American filmmakers and entertainers will be film director Roberto Faenza, actress and director Valeria Golino, and famed Italian sing...
VIA ARTé 2014 Italian Street Painting Festival
October 11-12, 2014 The Bakersfield Museum of Art1930 R StreetBakersfield, CA 93301 The Marketplace at the Bakersfield Museum of Art will be transformed into a work of art during the 16th Annual Via Arté Italian Street Painting Festival. Using the asphalt as canvas, spectators watch as professional and student artists unlock their imagina...
COM.IT.ES Elections Will Be Held April 17th, 2015
Cari concittadini,The Italian Parliament has decided to give you the opportunity to elect the new Committee of Italians Abroad (COM.IT.ES) for the consular jurisdiction of San Francisco on April 17th, 2015. The election called on December 19th, 2014 was cancelled because no list of candidates had met the legal requirements. Law n. 190 of December...
Ten Years of Italians In The BAIA of SF
The year was 2005. Around the start of the web 2.0 era. LinkedIn just went from less than 100,000 to 1M members. Business networking was limited to Ivy League business school alumni associations, vendors driven tech gatherings, industry associations, and the classic clubs: from your dad's Rotary to exclusive "co-member nominated" business councils....
New Little Italy Board Members
Little Italy is pleased to announce that we have added Marco Zecchin as Treasurer to the Little Italy San Jose Board of Directors. Marco Zecchin has been our resident Photographer and a dedicated volunteer for the past three years. Marco is also the owner of the Image Center in Los Gatos and is involved in numerous charitable organizations througho...