The Italy of Video Games arrives in San Francisco
It's a massive market which still has considerable room for growth in Italy. The global video games industry represents a market of 80 billion euros and in Italy, where it has already overtaken cinema and music, it is worth almost one billion euros. Thus, the Italian industry is not about to miss the largest world event dedicated to video...
Yerba Buena Center For The Arts Celebrates Italian Musician Luciano Chessa With A Retrospective
Luciano Chessa has had a long, rich career as both musicologist and musician. Now, after releasing six albums and spending thirty-plus years as a composer and performer, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is rewarding him with his own retrospective on April 30. Born on the Italian island of Sardinia in 1971 to scientist parents, Chessa li...
La Scala comes to California!
Experience the inimitable sights and sounds of La Scala here in California, thanks to the project MusicEmotion: Filarmonica della Scala and the Saturday Symphony Series. Performances from the legendary Scala theatre in Milan will be screened in high definition and with surround sound at the Arena Theatre beginning on Saturday, the 20th of...
Le collocazioni dell'italiano
di Silvia Simonetti Ogni lingua presenta le proprie caratteristiche peculiari, e tutte le lingue hanno proprie combinazioni di parole, dette anche "collocazioni", che i parlanti nativi spesso usano in maniera automatica e senza rendersene conto. Un esempio di tale fenomeno è rappresentato dalla comune espressione "lanciare un appello"...
16th Annual Scalabrini House Seminary Fundraiser Banquet
The Scalabrini House Seminary will celebrate on April 26, 2014, at Casa Italiana its annual Fundraiser Banquet for the Scalabrinian Seminarians organized by local Scalabrinian priests in collaboration with the Scalabrini Fundraiser Committee. This year's 16th anniversary celebration will consist of a traditional banquet to raise funds to s...
Fast and Curious: Italian guitarist Patrick Abbate rocks LA
What would you do if you had the spirit of an American rocker but you were born in the small town of Oristano, in the Italian island of Sardinia? Since the age of 3 – he has pictures to prove it! -, Patrick Abbate has held a guitar in his hands. And he knew exactly how to do it in the right way, even if nobody had ever taught him. "I have...
Ferragosto celebrations with L’Italo-Americano
by Silvia Simonetti What is your idea of a perfect Ferragosto, the traditional Italian mid-summer feast? To this question, many of you would probably answer: good weather, good food, good wine and limoncello, good espresso coffee, good music, and – last but not least – a group of good friends. Being an Italian American newspaper a...
Little Italy Bakery Aims to Make 350-Pound Cannoli in Bid for World Title
A Little Italy institution plans to mark this year's San Gennaro Feast with an ambitious project: a 12-foot cannolo containing 50 pounds of chocolate chips. Ferrara Bakery and Cafe at 195 Grand St. has been working on a giant-sized version of its cannoli, a Sicilian pastry made with a light, crispy shell filled with sweet cream, chocolate...
Thursday Italian Movie Night at the San Juan Capistrano Regency Theater
We will be screening Io, Loro e Lara 7:00pm screening at the Regency Theater. Located at 26762 Verdugo Street, San Juan Capistrano, CA. 92675 949-661-3456. Happy Hour begins at 6:00pm in the theater's Rick's Cafe. Movie Description: Father Carlo returns home after some years spent in Africa on a humanitarian mission. He is dealing with a faith cri...
Bob Budelli motors about his home town of Menlo Park in 1937 Touring Cadillac
by Linda Hubbard Gulker There's a whole lot of Menlo Park in Bob Budelli. He lives today next door to the house where he grew up near downtown. When he went off to college at Arizona State, he roomed with M-A classmate Rob Dell'Ergo. His three boys all went through local schools. With his Dad, he stays active in the Italian A...
BAIA Geeks Meetup: exploring new ways of networking
BAIA was started in 2006 by a very small group of Italians, my friends Michele Ursino, Matteo Daste and Giorgio Ghersi. I joined the association only a few weeks after it was founded. The founders' long term goal was to build a business community of Italians in San Francisco and in the Silicon Valley who didn't identify themselves with the historic...
Italian fashion brand Luisa Spagnoli opens first US store in Palo Alto
Great news for Bay Area women with a passion for Italian fashion. The iconic brand Luisa Spagnoli is now in at the Stanford shopping mall with a boutique of its own. I was delighted to congratulate Nicoletta Spagnoli, the CEO of the Italian company and the great-granddaughter of Luisa Spagnoli who created the business in 1928 in Perugia (b...