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...
Introducing Savory Gelato
As the weather gets warmer, dive into a new kind of gelato: savory! That's right. After weeks of experimenting, our expert pastry chefs have created a new menu of gelati salati, taking inspiration from Italian classics ranging from cacio e pepe to caprese. In other words: you'll never have to choose between your favorite Italian dish (or drink!) an...
Brace. Little Italy Food Hall Debuts Soon with Six Restaurants
San Diego’s highly anticipated Little Italy Food Hall makes its debut inside the Piazza della Famiglia on Thursday, July 12, at 3 p.m. San Diego-based hospitality group Grain & Grit Collective — an extension of Sweet 100 that helped develop and expand local brands including Carnitas’ Snack Shack and Broken Yolk Café — gathered a collection of six r...
The Russo Brothers: Italian American Pride Conquers Hollywood
The Italian-American directors Joe and Anthony Russo are among the artists and innovators behind some of the world’s most successful and iconic blockbuster films and television shows. Recently the Russo Brothers, as they are nicknamed in the film industry, directed the record-breaking Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Avengers: Infinity War, that became...
San Diego Italian Film Festival | Summer Series Screenings
The San Diego Italian Film Festival is back this summer for another another series of screenings of italian movies.Starting Thursday, July 12, the screenings will take place in two ifferents locations: La Paloma Theatre and the Museum of Photographics Arts. My Country by Giancarlo Iannotta | Thursday, July 12 Una donna per amica (A woman as a Frie...
Home Movies. A Celebration of Amateur Filmmaking
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM PDT. Italian Cultural Institute - 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite F - San Francisco, CA 94102. Free Admission | RSVP Required. Join us for an evening of fun as we take a trip down memory lane while watching the intimate yet universal footage that comprise home movies! This event is a collaborative effort be...
Romina Arena, regina del Popera: Con la mia musica parlo di sogni e coraggio
Si definisce una donna del Rinascimento, dalle mille risorse e dal talento naturale che lei declina in molteplici forme di arte: dalla danza, passione iniziata a quattro anni, fino al canto, la scrittura, la sceneggiatura, la produzione musicale. Romina Arena, siciliana di Palermo, ha avuto una vita difficile ma piena di grandi soddisfazioni. Aveva...
Approaches to a Theory of Landscape
Join us for an engaging presentation by Roberto Taroni and Annamaria Martena, currently Artists in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. On the occasion of their visit, SF Cinematheque and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will host a retrospective of their films on Friday, July 6, at the YBCA auditorium. The artist duo will gi...
Laura Pausini @Greek Theatre
When: Saturday, July 28, 2018 At 8:00 pm - Where: Greek Theatre - Organized by : Live Nation & Nederlander Concerts - Entrance : With fee. Info and tickets: https://bit.ly/2trqTl7 After 2016 sold-out world tour, Laura Pausini announces her return live starting from July 2018, with two concerts on July 21st and 22nd in her beloved country, Italy,...
Gelato Festa (Need we say more?)
Ready for all your gelato dreams to come true? On Saturday, July 14, we're hosting our first-ever Gelato Festa. Come join this sweet event to discover our variety of creamy artisanal Italian gelato and all the ways you can pair it. From 2-5 p.m., explore our marketplace which will feature stations spread across the entire store offering frozen fav...
Section of San Pedro now officially called Historic Little Italy
A section of San Pedro was dubbed Historic Little Italy on Wednesday, June 27, by the Los Angeles City Council. Councilman Joe Buscaino, who is of Italian descent and represents the San Pedro area, introduced the motion calling for the designation, which will include the installation of street signs at key intersections. The motion says that the hi...
James G. Turner Uncovers the Erotic Dimensions of Italian Renaissance Art
Proportion, harmony, mythological subject-matter – all well-known and indisputable effects of classical recovery on Renaissance artistic expression. But James G. Turner (James D. Hart Chair in English at UC Berkeley) in Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality, and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy underscores an easily neglected side of art and court culture d...