Charlie’s Italian Joint brings New York to Redondo Beach
Charlie's calls itself "A New York Italian Joint," which isn't quite right. It's a good deal more affable, cheerful and neighborly than the dark and crammed madhouse restaurants I grew up going to in New York City. By contrast, Charlie's Italian Joint in Redondo Beach is bright and spacious, with a groovy bar with a lot of big screens tune...
Luca Vullo Teaches Italian Gestures at Mills College
by Mauro Battocchi Luca Vullo, an Italian gestures specialist and filmmaker, is now a visiting professor of Italian Gestures at Mills College in Oakland for six weeks from the 26th of June to the 7th of August. As those familiar with Italian culture and language can tell you, i gesti italiani are impressively varied in their manifestations...
That’s Italian owners bid arrivederchi to the KRV
By Kathe Malouf When Romeo and Anna Schiavi took their first look at a restaurant building in Kernville, Anna turned to her husband and asked, "Where's the town?" to which her husband replied "You're sitting in it." That was more than 20 years ago and the restaurant they looked at became "That's Italian", a popular restaurant where cu...
The Forgotten Italians of Los Angeles
There was an exceedingly awkward moment near the beginning of my conversation with Marianna Gatto, the executive director of the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, which opened in the city's downtown earlier this month. We were in a second floor room of the Italian Hall, a 1908 building handsomely restored into the city's newest museum, for on...
Study Abroad going to Italy
If students are looking to expand their horizons and study abroad, both Diablo Valley College and Los Medanos College will be putting together a trip for Florence, Italy for spring next 2017 DVC Professor Carolyn Seefer, who taught in Florence in 2007, is excited to get the opportunity to do so again ten years later. She said the greatest benefit...
Italian Legend Giovanni Soldini Breaks World Record
SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't the first time an Italian had sailed from New York, around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America, and into the San Francisco Bay. Most Italians in San Francisco have family stories of their great-grandfathers making the same arduous voyage a century and a half ago, and with much less fanfare. When Captain Giovanni...
In spiaggia con le arie di Verdi
by Enrica Corselli Se diciamo "Giuseppe Verdi", qual è la prima cosa che vi viene in mente? Se ci state ancora pensando, possiamo darvi un aiutino..."La donna è mobile, qual piuma al vento"... Ecco, ora canterete l'aria più famosa del Rigoletto per il resto della vostra giornata. E per chi invece non ha familiarità con questi vers...
10 nuovi membri per la la National Italian Honor Society della University of Southern California
Una significativa cerimonia ha suggellato l'investitura di dieci nuovi membri della sezione che la National Italian Honor Society (Gamma Kappa Alpha) ha istituito alla University of Southern California (USC). A darne notizia è il Consolato generale a Los Angeles. L'appartenenza alla Gamma Kappa Alpha – attiva in tutto il Nord America – è...
La Scuola, the Reggio Emilia model making the difference in education for Italians and Americans in San Francisco
Twelve years in action, hundred-sixty students, a staff made of thirty people, two different locations: what La Scuola - Italian International School - represents today for Italians, Americans, and other communities in San Francisco is much more than what these numbers tell. La Piccola Scuola Italiana, founded in 2001 by some Italian-Ameri...
Italy Employs Online Portal to Educate and Engage Influx of Immigrants
With each passing year, more immigrants are coming to Italy in search of a new home. In an effort to better integrate them into Italy's multi-faceted, democratic society, the Government of Italy has created the Migrants' Integration Portal, an online resource that engages immigrants from 16 key nations with useful information and services relating...
In conversation with Sergio Donati: Once Upon A Time… Italy made great cinema!
by Valerio Viale It seems like fate has bestowed more than just the first name to Donati (13 April 1933) and Leone (3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989), both named Sergio and born in Rome, four years apart from one another. Together they created a genre, called "Spaghetti Western", which enchanted and still captivates generations of afici...
Pasquetti's opens with Italian favorites
If you have been wondering how to pronounce the name of the new restaurant on West Jefferson Boulevard – the one with the red, white and green paint job – I have a tip. Think about how a 4-year-old might pronounce "spaghetti" and you will get "Pasquetti's." Pasquetti's Italian Steakhouse opened this week in the building that was once a Wendy's...