Support Comites campaign for 2016 Italy earthquake
On August 24, 2016, central Italy was shaken by a terrible earthquake which has caused the death of 292 people. Many of them were children caught at home in the middle of the night. It has afflicted the most vulnerable regions in the Appennini mountains, small towns with buildings dated over 500 years. This is the Italy that we all lo...
Maserati, at LA Auto Show, soars in U.S. market
Sales of Maserati luxury sports cars rose 11.9% in October over one year ago, with 1,304 units sold in 2016 compared to 1,165 units in 2015. The rise came amid a sluggish US car market that saw a 6% overall decline in October with declines of 40-50% in many of the major luxury car brands. Tom Shanley, director of Maserati North America, said...
December Nights a Balboa Park: le prelibatezze della House of Italy
Venerdi 7 e sabato 8 dicembre Balboa Park e' stato illuminato per la 35ima volta consecutiva dalle mille luci e colori del Festival December Nights. Piu' di 300.000 visitatori per una delle feste piu' amate dell'anno. Un'esperienza multiculturale all'insegna delle tradizioni natalizie di tutti i popoli del mondo. Intrattenimenti vari come balli a c...
When Naples' Teatro di San Carlo comes to San Francisco
As significant milestone of the celebration of "2013 Year of the Italian Culture in the US" in San Francisco, the festivities to bring the San Carlo Theater of Naples to the Bay Area will start early this month, reaching their peak in June. Starting next Tuesday, the Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, Mauro Battocchi, in collaboration with...
“The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950-1990″, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco
by Matthew Breen Fashion fans will be in for a treat this fall when the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will present The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950 – 1990, an exhibition of approximately 150 pieces created by the renowned Italian jeweler over four decades. This exclusive exhibition will highlight jewelry that defi...
Monterey's Italian Heritage
Monterey, California was once home to the Rumsen Ohlone tribe, which survived by hunting and by catching fish from the rich Pacific waters off the coast of this seaport. Later, in the late 1700's, Spanish settlers arrived. They were led by Junipero Serra, a Franciscan with much missionary zeal. Father Serra is now credited with converting...
Solare Ristorante Named 2014 Best Italian Restaurant and Chef Accursio Lotà is Best Chef in San Diego
Solare Ristorante is named Best Italian Restaurant in the 2014 restaurant issue of San Diego Magazine. Additionally in the same issue, Solare's Executive Chef Accursio Lotà was named Best Chef in San Diego. Both awards were in the readers' pick category, making the recognition that much more significant. "We are a family-run, farm-to-table...
UCSD Names Italian Scholar Arts and Humanities Dean
Cristina Della Coletta, a professor of Italian and an associate dean at the University of Virginia, has been appointed dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego. "With her cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research and experience, Cristina Della Coletta is uniquely poised to lead a vibrant division at UC Sa...
Italy Has Found a New Young Hero in Silicon Valley: Marco Zappacosta
by Mauro Battocchi There is little doubt left: Marco Zappacosta has become the new icon of the new generation of Italians in Silicon Valley. He founded his company, Thumbtack, five years ago at the age of 24. This week the news was broken that the company has received a $100 million investment led by Google Capital. This follows a...
Big blaze at Holy Cross Church destroys a beloved structure in San Jose
by Joe Rodriguez Holy Cross Catholic Church, a century-old center of a beloved parish, where Mass was still recited in Italian, burned down Sunday afternoon in a four-alarm fire. "This was home, and now it's gone," said Catherine Ventimiglia, who attended the Italian Mass that ended minutes before the fire broke out around 2 p.m. "We...
Geoff Palmer’s Faux-Italian Renaissance
You'd be forgiven for wanting to reach out the passenger window of your car and touch the Da Vinci, the newest downtown apartment complex from G.H. Palmer Associates. Built dead against the transition from the 110 to the 101 and opening early next year, it is massive in scale, with medieval brick buttresses surmounted by Italianate dingbats. ...
Respected former federal appeals judge with Carnegie roots dies
By Brian Bowling Found squatting in the rarely used chambers of a tax judge while waiting for his own chambers, newly appointed federal appeals Judge Ruggero Aldisert called upon his Marine skills when the angry tax judge showed up and became abusive toward Aldisert's secretary. "The next thing I knew, the judge came striding out of his c...