Scopo Divino: Food and Wine Therapy — and So Much More
Scopo Divino is doing a little bit of everything with their beautiful wine bar bistro space — and people are noticing. For one, they’ve already been voted best wine bar by both the Bay Guardian and SF Weekly in their “best of” issues in 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. Located on the more residential corridor of California and Divisadero, you ma...
Cross the line - mostra fotografica a LA
Si è recentemente conclusa a Los Angeles, presso la galleria d’arte The Loft at Liz’s, la mostra fotografica “Cross the line” di Marinella Paolini. La mostra, allestita dal Direttore artistico Patrizia Biba Mogherini, è stata curata da Guy Dill, famoso artista-scultore californiano. L’artista è nata a Civitavecchia (Roma), ha iniziato il suo perco...
OlivettiWorld in San Francisco
After bringing to the Bay Area events on such iconic masters of Italian design as Vico Magistretti (2014) and Achille Castiglioni (2017), the Italian Cultural Institute decided to put together an initiative that would offer San Francisco audiences a topic that combines the qualities of historical discourse with the imaginative vision of contemporar...
The Off-Broadway smash hit “My big gay italian wedding” hits Los Angeles with a sold out run
Released this year at the box office in Italy as “Puoi Baciare lo Sposo”, the Off-Broadway Smash Hit written by Anthony Wilkinson has just seen a complete sold out run in Los Angeles at the Actors Company. Directed by Francesco Piotti and Gianfranco Terrin, it was brought to Los Angeles by Italia Spettacolo and italian producer Fausto Petronzio in...
Genoa in Music
On the occasion of Italy's National Day and Mayor Marco Bucci of Genoa's visit of San Francisco, The Consulate General of Italy and The Italian Cultural Institute pay homage to the city of Genoa with a beautiful double concert. We will listen to musics of Paganini, Rossini, Carulli, Bellini, Schubert, Verdi and Beethoven, performed by duo Andrea Ca...
La Festa Nazionale celebra a Los Angeles il 70mo anniversario della Costituzione italiana tra arte, cultura, economia, sport e social media
Le celebrazioni per la Festa della Repubblica hanno avuto luogo quest’anno presso la “Casa Italiana”, storico punto di incontro degli Italiani di Los Angeles. «Si tratta di un doveroso omaggio alla nostra comunità» ha ricordato il Console Generale Antonio Verde «per rinsaldarne le radici culturali, rinnovandone lo spirito e onorandone la memoria». ...
Cal Mare Is a Marriage Made in Italian-California Heaven
It’s hard to believe that the Mina Group’s Cal Mare is located in one of L.A.’s biggest shopping malls on one of the city’s busiest boulevards, because after one of its classic Aperol spritzes at the bar you’d swear you were either on Capri or at a spot near Portuguese Bend on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Have an Umbrella by the Road Cocktail (Nolet...
Al LACMA di Los Angeles il chiaroscuro nel Rinascimento italiano
Il LACMA di Los Angeles, in collaborazione con la National Gallery of Art di Washington, presenta "The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaissance Italy" ovvero "Il chiaroscuro nelle incisioni rinascimentali italiane", una mostra di circa cento xilografie, la prima negli Stati Uniti, ad esplorare più approfonditamente la prospettiva e l'arte dell'incisione...
Artist Honors St. Vincent's at iMadonnari
St. Vincent’s is celebrating 160 years of service to the Santa Barbara community with their participation in the I Madonnari – Italian street painting festival. St. Vincent’s will have two drawings celebrating the outstanding ministry of the Daughters of Charity during these years. The first illustration depicts the Daughters of Charity who estab...
An ‘amazing public orator’: UC Berkeley Italian studies professor Steven Botterill dies at 60
Steven Botterill, a UC Berkeley professor of Italian studies, died at age 60 on May 5. Botterill came to UC Berkeley from England in 1986 to become an assistant professor of Italian studies, according to Albert Russell Ascoli, a professor and colleague of Botterill’s for 23 years in the campus department of Italian studies. He added that Botterill...
I Madonnari Is the Chalk of the Town This Weekend at Santa Barbara Mission
Thousands of spectators strolled along the Santa Barbara Mission’s plaza Sunday to watch artists at work during the free I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival, which runs through Monday. Roughly 140 large-scale images are being drawn with pastel chalk, and they stretch across the pavement in front of the mission. The 32nd annual gathering —...
The shameful treatment of Italian immigrants during WWII shows America’s propensity for xenophobic hysteria
The men in suits were at the Maiorana family’s Monterey, California, home again. Mike, the family’s young son, watched as the agents rummaged through their belongings in search of guns, cameras, and shortwave radios. And again, they found nothing. This was during World War II, and the FBI had declared Mike’s mother an “enemy alien.” The sole source...