Make Every Month Italian Heritage Month
By Catherine Accardi October is officially National Italian Heritage Month in the U.S. Italian Heritage Month has been celebrated in America since 1999 and was designated by Presidential Proclamation. This month is chosen to coincide with Columbus Day in October and the festivities associated with this occasion. This celebration o...
2016 Cinema Italian Style: Italian “Nouvelle Vague”
by Valerio Viale It just ended in Los Angeles, the 12th edition of Cinema Italian Style - annual showcase of Italian films by the most talented filmmakers operating in Italy – that, this year, celebrated also Dino Risi's centennial, through a special screening of the restored version of the maestro's, Il Sorpasso (aka The Easy Life, 1962)....
Master Butcher Dario Cecchini Closes the First Week of Italian Cuisine in the Bay Area
by Serena Perfetto San Francisco and the Bay Area welcomed a special guest for the First Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, that took place in over 100 countries in late November. Pinseria Montesacro, the San Franciscan restaurant making Roman-style pizza, hosted The Art of Butchery - A Porchetta Lunch with Dario Cecchini, the well-know...
Italy Rocks the Fancy Food Show
Delectable delights from Italy abounded at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, which concluded today after a long and scrumptious weekend. The show is a big deal in food circles, occurring annually in San Francisco and New York. Forty thousand attendees bring over 260,000 different kinds of food from over 80 countries. Today at the Moscone Center...
Mario Batali's Chi Spacca celebrated in short film
Via Nowness.com, I came across a beautiful little (three-minute-plus) film about Chi Spacca, ("cleaver") the new Mario Batali et al restaurant next door to Osteria Mozza on Melrose Avenue. If you haven't been, go. This is a restaurant where Chad Colby, who's responsible for all those fabulous family-style pig dinners at Scuola di Pizza, sh...
IASA Western Regional Chapter Offers $500 Research Grant
The Italian American Studies Association-Western Regional Chapter (IASA-WRC) is pleased to offer a one-time award of $500 for a graduate student or recent graduate-degree recipient whose research focuses in a significant way on the history and culture of Italian Americans in the West. We welcome all disciplinary approaches to the field of...
Sophia Loren to Receive Career-Honoring AFI FEST Tribute
by Ryan Lattanzio The American Film Institute announced today that luminous Italian movie icon Sophia Loren will receive a special Tribute on the penultimate night of AFI FEST 2014, which runs November 6 through 13 in Hollywood. AFI FEST will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of her glamorous, Oscar-nominated role in Vittorio De...
NICE: New Italian Cinema Events - November 19, 2014 - November 23, 2014
This year's New Italian Cinema Events (NICE) offers several distinct elements in the competition section, including the first-ever animated feature, an Italian production entirely in Arabic and a suspense-oriented film in the giallo tradition, among other extremely impressive first or second features. Opening Night features a very special...
Italy Shines in the 2015-16 San Francisco Opera Season Repertory
San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley and Music Director Nicola Luisotti recently delighted Bay Area opera enthusiasts by announcing next seasons opera productions, four of which are works of famous Italian composers. The apex of the season will be the world premiere of a brand-new opera by the Italian composer Marco Tutino, L...
From developers and manufacturers to designers and architects: shaping the Bay Area with Italian creativity
Taking a passeggiata along Columbus street in San Francisco can turn into a unique opportunity: in fact, in the way it keeps the authentic charm from its origins, North Beach is not a neighborhood as the others. This is mainly due to the architecture of houses and restaurants populating the area since the late 1800s. Both residential and b...
Chianti's offers authentic Italian food
By Paula King Shayan Rahimi grew up savoring his father's authentic recipes from their rustic, Northern Italian roots and recently realized that there was a need for this type of cuisine in Brentwood. Rahimi's father, Al Mancini, owned the popular Chianti's Ristorante in Pleasanton for four years before selling it this year. ...
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi and the Bay of Bridges
Can you name the seven principal bridges of San Francisco Bay? Perhaps least known is the Carquinez Bridge which connects the East Bay to Vallejo. Also obscure, but known well to the Silicon Valley crowd, is the Dumbarton Bridge, the shortest bridge over the Bay, which connects Palo Alto to Newark across the water. Then, of course,...