Lupo D’Abruzzo Italian Restaurant turns fifty — mangia!
Family-owned Lupo D'Abruzzo Italian Restaurant will celebrate its golden anniversary soon. Stop by for great Italian food — tell them George sent you! I wish my Mom and Dad were alive. I would ask them when and why they first tried Lupo D'Abruzzo's Italian restaurant. There likely weren't many restaurants around in 1966 – there were far mo...
IAMLA Grand Opening!
Thanks to the generosity of IAMLA Members, Founding Families, the City of Los Angeles, and corporate and community partners, we are pleased to announce that the IAMLA will be opening its doors in August. IAMLA Members will receive an invitation to a special, member's-only reception that will take place prior to the museum's publ...
SF Opera Celebrates Bicentennials of Verdi and Wagner
San Francisco Opera celebrates the bicentennial births of two of opera's most important composers—Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. Renowned bass-baritone Bryn Terfel returns to San Francisco in the title role of Verdi's beloved comedy Falstaff, conducted by San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti. Falstaff opens October 8 and runs for...
Adopt an Italian-Language Student Campaign Starts Strong
by Mauro Battocchi The campaign to "Adopt an Italian-Language Student" started with a bang last Saturday at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in San Francisco. For quite some time AP training opportunities on the West Coast have been scarce. It was high time for the teachers of Italian of the Bay Area to be paid a most welcome visit by...
L’Italo-Americano 3rd Annual Golf Tournament
Since 2012, L'Italo-Americano has been organizing the Annual Golf Tournament, a fundraiser that gathers together players and enthusiast on the golf course of the beautiful Porter Valley Country Club in Northridge. In the early morning, as soon as they arrived to the Club, the players were welcomed with a complimentary breakfast and a gift...
Knights of Saint Francis to host St Anthony Feast Day Mass
The Knights of Saint Francis—the organization created by former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Angela Alioto—has scheduled a special Mass to be held on Friday, June 13, 2014. The Mass will be celebrated on the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, the Portuguese-born, thirteenth-century Franciscan friar and patron saint of Padua,...
Operation Opera
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2014 - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - Time: 8 PM. Location: Feinstein's, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street, San Francisco Organized by: Feinstein's This Hit at the Edinburgh Festival, MAC Award Winner and sold out show at Lincoln Center stars Adelmo Guidarelli and uses a vintage music hall style to weave well known opera ari...
ABC: How to learn Italian in one hour
A very unique method used by Miss Margherita (Laura Caparrotti), a despotic Teacher-Diva, to teach Italian to any Italian student. Starting from what is best known in the US about Italy – Love, Food, Literature, Art, Tourism and Music – Miss Margherita will explain and teach the Italian language, culture, art and tradition to the audience....
Meatballs complement history of Little Italy
Local author and food writer Maria Desiderata Montana has a new book being released this week about San Diego's Italian community and its cuisine. "San Diego Italian Food: A Culinary History of Little Italy and Beyond" (History Press; $19.99) tells the story of how a large Italian community developed in what became known as Little Italy. A...
Rinnovo Comites: “Mondo democratico” e “Ctim" le liste ammesse a Los Angeles
Il Comitato elettorale del Consolato di Los Angeles ha ammesso due liste alle prossime elezioni del Comites. si tratta della lista "Mondo democratico" e della lista "Ctim – Comitato tricolore italiani nel mondo". Questi i nomi dei candidati. LISTA MONDO DEMOCRATICOPiana Marco, Eisenberg Elyse Debra, Fogu Claudio, Granata Eleonora, Longo V...
I Trovatori Opera presents: Cosi Fan Tutte in Concord
June 13, 2015 - Saturday 7:00 PM - 11:00 PMConcord United Methodist Church - 1645 West St.Concord, California Pleasant Hill-Concord based vocal ensemble I Trovatori Opera will present a concert performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1890 operatic masterpiece, Cosi Fan Tutte, in a joint fundraiser with the Concord United Methodist Churc...
Our Italian Silicon Valley roots
by Cookie Curci Most of the important things I've learned in life- about caring, giving, strength and reliance, I've learned from my family. They have taught me valuable life lessons. Their lessons didn't come with preaching or lectures, they taught by example. Their hardworking, honest lifestyle set the goals and desires for future genera...