San Diego Italian Film Festival Celebrates Italy’s Welcome for Holocaust Survivors
The San Diego Italian Film Festival will screen a new film about Jewish refugees in Italy after World War II. The Israeli film “Shores of Light: Salento 1945-47” tells the story of thousands of Holocaust survivors who landed in southern Italy after the war. According to the film, those refugees were amazed by the welcome they received from the loca...
Baccari: Tale Padre Tale Figlio
The Photographic Artistry of Alessandro Baccari Sr. and His Son. August 24, 2017 through January 7, 2018 - Museo Italo Americano - Fort Mason Center - 2 Marina Blvd. Building C - San Francisco, CA 94123 The upcoming exhibit features works by two generations of San Francisco photographers: Alessandro Baccari Sr. (1888 – 1966) and his son Alessandro...
Eat: A Mano, a Handmade Tale
The artisanal-food revolution is the fetishization of the human hand. Deindustrializing certain components of food production has been key to reinvigorating our love of real food in what’s otherwise an inglorious and hollow McWorld. It’s a renaissance that could be captured in image of 10 flour-covered fingers in a mixing bowl. So we have A Mano, t...
Chiara Boni La Petite Robe plans to open first U.S. store in Los Angeles
Ten years after Chiara Boni La Petite Robe was created, the company is gearing up to open its first U.S. store in Los Angeles next month. The Italian ready-to-wear label started its expansion in 2010 and is counting on the new Melrose Avenue location to further fuel sales. The 860-square-foot boutique at 8470 Melrose Place will be the third for Chi...
The Fallen One True Love Is Tragic ... And Forever!
The Fallen One, an original adaptation of La Traviata. Saturday August 12th, 7:30 p.m. | Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 The Fallen One is an original adaptation of La Traviata, the opera masterpiece written by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1853. The Fallen One is about a beautiful young wo...
Vivere all’Italiana – Casa Castiglioni
“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time.” Achille CastiglioniThis year’s Design Week, June 14-22, 2017, brought Casa Castiglioni to San Francisco, an exhibit that explores the work of one of the greatest industrial...
Sporty Italian: Sampino’s Kitchen at Joe Marty’s
Sacramento has had phenomenal Italian grocers for decades, but until recently the Italian restaurants didn’t follow suit. Yes, there’s Biba, that iconic fine-dining institution so famous that its namesake earns nationwide respect. But really, if you wanted good pasta on a weeknight, your best bet was Corti Brothers, the (late) Italian Importing Co....
Clippers close to landing Danilo Gallinari in sign-and-trade
Free-agent forward Danilo Gallinari and the Clippers were closing in on a sign-and-trade agreement Monday night that involved the Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawks and Clippers guard Jamal Crawford, according to NBA officials who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. Gallinari will agree to a three-year deal with the Clippers for about $...
Ars Minerva presents "La Circe"
Opera composed in 1665 by Pietro-Andrea Ziani with a libretto by Cristoforo Ivanovich. Sung in Italian with English supertitles. September 8 & 9, 2017 at 7:30pm. ODC Theater - 3153 17th Street, San Francisco. Reserve your tickets here. La Circe' plot is based on the adventures of Circe, the goddess and magician of Greek mythology made famous by Ho...
Thousands of Rome’s historical images digitized with help of Stanford researchers
A team including Stanford researchers created a new digital archive to study Rome’s transformation over the centuries. The exhibit, which went online in the spring, consists of almost 4,000 digitized drawings, prints, photographs and sketches of historic Rome from the 16th to 20th centuries. The pieces were collected by renowned Roman archaeologist...
MV Agusta Brutale 800 America Unveiled Just in Time for Independence Day
For being an Italian bike, the MV Agusta Brutale 800 America that was just unveiled is extremely, well, American. It features a new livery that will grace a limited run of just 50 bikes—one for each state. The bike is being officially unveiled at the World Superbike Championship at Laguna Seca next weekend. This patriotic paint job is inspired by...
Italian American Lawyers of Orange County IALOC/Lex Romana for our annual Bocce Tournament
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 5:30 PM Join Italian American Lawyers of Orange County IALOC/Lex Romana for our annual Bocce Tournament at Il Fornaio in Irvine, California. Our Gracious Sponsor for this event is Centext Legal. Appetizers are included in the Registration Cost of $20.00 for members and $30.00 for non-members. The Bocce Tournament will gua...