Highway 12 featured at the 150th Italian Heritage Parade Grand Ball
San Francisco – Highway 12 Winery has generously donated wine for the San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade Grand Ball on October 6, 2018. The winery bears the name of the legendary road which is home to dozens of world-renowned vineyards and wineries in the Carneros District of California. For more information about their wines, please see their w...
Silicon Alleys: New Book Chronicles Young Da Vinci's Obsession with Spheres
I first met David Eastis 15 years ago when he presided over the Silicon Valley chapter of Slow Food, originally among the first five chapters the U.S. Eastis was the Shakespearean "mine host" of a gluttonous event at the upscale Flea Street Cafe in Menlo Park, where 56 gastronomes of all shapes and sizes feasted at a snail's pace for over three hou...
Five Fun Facts About North Beach
Until 1909, everyone’s favorite diagonal thoroughfare was known as Montgomery Avenue, creating a de facto intersection of “Montgomery and Montgomery” at the site that would go on to become the Transamerica Pyramid six decades later. That year, the city of San Francisco, in post-earthquake recovery and consolidation mode and with more than 400,000 r...
Local Artists Showcase Work At Festa Italiana
Get into the spirit of Italy at Festa Italiana on Sunday, July 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Lodi Grape Festival Grounds. This annual event is designed to bring the community together through the finest food, activities and entertainment of the Italian culture. As you stroll through the streets of Festa, you’ll be amazed by the beautiful creatio...
Meet Maestro Riccardo Frizza!
After his last appearance four years ago, Maestro Riccardo Frizza is returning to the Bay Area for his fourth collaboration with the San Francisco Opera. This season he will be conducting Donizetti's iconic Roberto Devereux, from September 8th to the 27th, 2018. His previous productions include Lucrezia Borgia in 2011, I Capuleti e i Montecchi in 2...
Achille Bocus | History, Technology and Technique of the Mandolin
It is common to think of musical instruments as immutable. In reality, musical instruments are constantly evolving and improving. The mandolin in particular has undergone a surprising evolution, which, from its baroque beginnings to its modern form, has seen changes in aspects such as its shape, wood type, ropes, and plectrums. From the flat top an...
Los Angeles: una parte di San Pedro diventa “Historic Little Italy”
Una parte del quartiere di San Pedro, a Los Angeles, è stata rinominata “Historic Little Italy”. La decisione è stata ratificata dal Los Angeles City Council il 27 giugno scorso. Ne dà notizia il Comites di Los Angeles, spiegando che la mozione è stata presentata da Joe Buscaino, italo-americano e rappresentante di San Pedro nel consiglio. La mozi...
“Home movies!” all'IIC di San Francisco
Una serata speciale lungo il viale dei ricordi, un viaggio tra gli spezzoni di film di famiglia, una piacevole nostalgia da condividere insieme. Per riviere le emozioni del passato e scoprire come preservare questi tesori in pellicola l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco ospiterà martedì prossimo, 17 luglio, “Home movies!”. Appuntamento...
Grazie America! From Italy to Merced County
After more than a year of preparation, the Merced County Courthouse Museum opened the “Grazie America! From Italy to Merced County” exhibit on March 16, 2017. The exhibit collected personal stories from more than 130 contributors. As this successful exhibit came to an end on August 6, the process of documenting and preserving their stories continue...
Strangers among us — Little Italy during wartime
The war was getting really heavy, and a man in an officer’s uniform came to our door. He said, “I have some papers here, and I want you to read these. You have to leave your home and go to Oklahoma, and you’re going to go into a concentration camp. We’re going to take all the people who live near the waterfront because you’re too dangerous.” I said...
From Capodimonte to San Francisco: Botticelli Madonna’s with the Child on Exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor
Paraphrasing a much higher authority one could say that the avenues to connect Napoli to the Bay Area, www.unitethetwobays.com –travel through unpredictable ways. The dream of many Italians, Neapolitans in the specific, of one day to see some pieces from the Museo di Capodimonte’s Collection on exhibit in Northern California came true this week wit...
Experience the story of Little Italy San Diego, a neighborhood with an Italian presence since 1871!
Six thousand families of Genovese and Sicilian origin once called this home. The salty sea air, ready-made port, date palms, bougainvillea, geraniums, olive trees, and cactus plants reminded many Italians of their sunny fishing villages back home. They painted their tiny wooden bungalow homes the colors favored by their ancestors. They built their...