Fritto Misto will relocate due to new development at 6th & Colorado
Plans for an eight-story building at the corner of 6th Street and Colorado Avenue are moving forward. Last week, the Planning Commission unanimously approved the project, which is located one block from the Downtown Santa Monica Expo Line station and will replace two low-rise buildings. The building at 601 Colorado Ave. will contain 140 market-rate...
Io, Leonardo | XIX Edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World
When: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute - Entrance : Free On the occasion of Leonardo500 and the XIX Edition of Week of the Italian Language in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to present the American premiere of Io, Leonardo (I, Leonardo), a cinematographi...
Flesh & Blood
Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum, opening on October 17th at the Seattle Art Museum, offers a rare opportunity to experience the fierce beauty of art from the 16th and 17th centuries. Renowned Renaissance artists such as Titian and Raphael join Baroque masters including Artemisia Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera, Guido...
Missoni Celebrates Release of New Book at The Flamingo Estate in L.A.
“In Los Angeles, I find the best Missoni vintage from the Seventies, even end of the Sixties,” said Angela Missoni. “I always felt that there is something about Missoni rooted in L.A.” The creative director and president of the family-owned Italian brand was in town on Saturday night to celebrate the launch of “Missoni: The Great Italian Fashion,”...
Siamo Napoli embraces its Italian identity
We are Naples. That’s what the name means of San Diego’s latest Italian restaurant operated by people from Italy, means. Siamo Napoli recently picked up where Il Postino left off in a large North Park restaurant row space. If you’re looking for a way to distinguish this one from what has become many worthy Italian options around town, it would be t...
Maschitans Celebrate St. Elia With Bidding Match, Procession Around The Old Neighborhood
On the stairs of St. Alphonsus, a century-old, ornate Catholic church in West Fresno, generations of families are lining up. “Hey you guys we’re taking a group picture,” someone calls out. The young and the old inch a little this way and that to squeeze in more closely. They’re all here to celebrate St. Elia, the patron saint of their ancestral vi...
Boro Five’s ‘Team Marco’ makes debut in California film festival
Julio Vincent Gambuto sets his film in a part of the world that owns his heart: Staten Island. Now, he’s among A-listers in the Mill Valley Film Festival, where his feature film “Team Marco” will make its world premiere on Sunday, Oct. 6. The 92-minute production is listed in the “family films” category, screening at 11:45 a.m. PST on Sunday, Oct....
Francelli’s on 4th Street closes up shop on 50th anniversary
After serving the Belmont Heights community for 50 years, Francelli’s—the Italian-American restaurant that first opened as a market in 1969—has closed up shop, adding to the string of old-school Italian-American restaurants that have closed, including Russo’s last year and Papalucci’s in September. Birthed in the late 1960s by children-of-immigrant...
Montalbano's Croquettes - Gli Arancini di Montalbano | 19th Week of the Italian Language in the World
Monday, October 21, 2019. From 6:00 pm To 8:30 pm. Organized by the Italian Cultural Institute, 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite F. San Francisco CA 94102. Entrance: Free. On the occasion of the 19th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco pays tribute to the recently deceased author Andre...
Join us for the 151st running of the Italian Heritage Parade in San Francisco!
Sunday, October 13 at 12:30pm the Leonardo da Vinci Society will participate in The San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade. Our Board, members and friends of the Leonardo da Vinci Society will march to celebrate the annual Italian Heritage. All members are invited! Started in 1869, the Italian Heritage Parade features Italian and Italian-American di...
Little Italy district coming to San Pedro, dividing public opinion
When the Los Angeles City Council approved a motion a year ago recognizing a “Little Italy” historic designation for San Pedro, the zigzagging boundaries and the point of it all left some folks scratching their heads. While Italians have been among the largest European ethnic group to settle in the port community, an obvious physical landmark that...
Leonardo Da Vinci: Inventing the Future
This conference focuses on Leonardo’s work on Flight, the Heart, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, and the Environment, and is accompanied by an exhibition of relevant facsimiles of Leonardo’s drawings matched with photographs of contemporary dissections and modern artistic works. Organized by Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA) and Francis Wells (Cardiac...