ItalianClub@School Initiative
Do you love the sound of “La bella Lingua” but you don’t know where to learn it? Are you passionate about art, history, cinema, design, music, food, business and “La dolce vita”? Do you dream to travel to Italy, live in Milan, enjoy a gelato in Rome, take a dramatic picture in Venice, walk around Naples or study abroad in Tuscany? Make your passion...
Westwood’s Berardi still driven
Amidst the fear and adversity from immigrating to America, a young boy from Abruzzi, Italy found inspiration for a better life in the joy of a silver dollar — a fortune to a child and a pathway to his dreams. On August 8, 1955, 16-year-old Luciano “Louie” Antonio Berardi and his family made the voyage to the United States on the SS Andrea Doria. Th...
A ‘New, Old’ Little Italy in Los Angeles’ San Pedro
If Italian immigration to Los Angeles is a little-known chapter in the history of Italian immigration to the U.S., then Italian immigration to San Pedro, 20 miles south of downtown L.A., may be an even more obscure component. And yet, this coastal community located on the southern end of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, encompassing in part the Port of...
Battistoni: Born with a Lucky Shirt
“When we get to Rome, I'll buy you a jacket in a fantastic place, at Battistoni's,” said Jude Law to Matt Damon in “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” a film that revels in the dolce vita of Americans in Rome in the 1960s. It's a dolce vita that unspooled not only at the cafè tables of Via Veneto but in the boutiques of Via Condotti. It was on that street,...
Feminist Revolutionary Tina Modotti (EXCLUSIVE)
Monica Bellucci has been cast as feminist revolutionary Tina Modotti in a miniseries to be set in Mexico, Los Angeles and Italy and to be directed by prize-winning Italian director Edoardo de Angelis (“Indivisible”). The role is one that Bellucci has wanted to play for years. Modotti was an Italian who emigrated to the U.S. in 1913, acted briefly i...
85th Annual Festa Italia Fisherman’s Festival
Friday September 7 15-22; Saturday September 8 10-22; Sunday September 9 10-18 PDT - Monterey Bay Custom House Plaza - Monterey, CA 93940. This year will mark the 85th Annual Festa Italia Fisherman’s Festival honoring the local fishermen of Monterey, past and present. It is a celebrated event with wonderful Italian food and drink and amazing entert...
JPL Panelists
It is the dream of almost every kid: look up in the sky, jump into your very own spaceship and race among the stars chasing adventures. I still remember when on April 12, 1981, with family and friends we gathered around in our living room to witness on TV the first launch of the Space Shuttle; I had dreams for days of being one of the astronauts o...
Italian-American Heritage Day Resolution
On August 21, 2018, the Sacramento City Council declared the second Monday of October as Italian-American Heritage Day. This is the same day as Columbus Day is observed. The Resolution was the result of efforts by the local Italian-American community to have their traditional holiday recognized by the City. Members of the Italian community were on...
Italian American Museum of LA: A Cornerstone of West Coast Culture
When we speak of Italian immigration to the United States, Los Angeles is seldom the city that comes to mind. Usually, one imagines New York or other Eastern cities.Given this prevailing assumption, many are surprised to learn that Italian settlement in Los Angeles, which is home today to the nation’s fifth-largest Italian population, can be traced...
Bowers Museum: Knights in Armor
September 22, 2018 – January 13, 2019. Bowers Museum - 2002 North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92706. Knights in Armor features stunning masterpieces of European arms and armor, dating from the Medieval and Renaissance ages to the Romanticized Medieval revival of the 1800s. The provocative beauty and the exquisite craftsmanship of more than 90 pieces...
100th Anniversary of the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club
On Saturday, September 15, as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (SFIAC), the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club Foundation is proud to sponsor this year's Festa Coloniale Italiana and La Musica d'Italia in Washington Square Park - celebrations of Italian and Italian-American culture, music, food a...
Parish hosts Padre Pio relics
St. Pio of Pietrelcina’s devotion to the Blessed Mother inspired St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito to host a public tour of five relics of the saint the weekend of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8. “I have this personal belief that anything we ask from Jesus through his mother Mary gets VIP attention,” Father Mike Quinn,...