Sons of Italy award 3 EUHS grads
Three local students will have some extra money in the bank for college this fall after a recent announcement. Last week, the Enrico Caruso Lodge #1463, the Visalia chapter of the Sons of Italy in America, announced two Exeter Union High School students will be receiving scholarships, including Kason Clark and Garrett Giovani for Andrew Rizzo....
Building Bridges with Italy: A Good Day for Students and Community at Chapman
by Federico Pacchioni On Sunday, March 5th, over 200 students and community leaders gathered for the Italian Studies Council's conference Culture and Business: An Italian Perspective. The conference brought together innovative business leaders representing film, architecture, design, agriculture and other industries from California and Italy. &nb...
Francis Ford Coppola: The Program You Can’t Refuse
By Catherine Accardi The evening of November 15, 2016 brought the San Francisco Bay Area an opportunity that could not be ignored. The opportunity presented itself when San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, known as the nation's premier public affairs forum, announced they would present Francis Ford Coppola in a rare public appearance, in conversatio...
As Tech Week Closes, Italy in the Cleantech Spotlight
Italy Tech Week highlighted the Italian startup pulse in Silicon Valley and brought productive dialogues to the Bay. As part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US, Italy Tech Week is one of the year's many events that are showcasing Italianità in the Bay. Yesterday I attended the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco and was pleased to find Ita...
Pasolini: A Film Series
by Colpa Press A sampling of the three periods of Italian film master Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975),provocative and audacious thinker, acclaimed essayist and beloved poet. On the heels of a major retrospective at MoMA in New York, and at UCLA and the American Cinemateque in Los Angeles, Luce Cinecittà and Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini/Cinet...
Disruptive Italian Clean Technology To Be Revealed at the CleanTech Forum San Francisco Next Week
By Mauro Battocchi The CleanTech Forum San Francisco 2014, an important networking and lecture event in renewable energy and zero impact technology, kicks off next week (March 11-13) at San Francsico's Fairmont Hotel. This year is the 12th edition of the Forum and over 750 attendants are expected from tier one venture capital and...
Congratulations to This Year's Olive Oil of the Year Calivirgin
The Coldani Olive Ranch swept the competition in this year's Central Coast Olive Oil Competition with 4 of the 8 gold medal winning oils awarded Best of Class and the Best in Show. Calivirgin is leading the olive oil industry in innovation, producing premium quality olive oil as one of the highest awarded olive oil producers in the nation....
Off-Broadway Actress Candice Guardino & Her Husband Face Lawsuit for ITALIAN BRED L.A. Run
The New York Post reports that off-Broadway actress Candice Guardino and her husband Thomas Felicciardi are being sued by investors Joe Cecala, Emily Conner and Lawrence Schwartz. The trio claim that the couple took their $68,000 investment for their proposed revival of 'Italian Bred' and ran off to Los Angeles, where they used the funds f...
Culinary hot spot of the year: Little Italy
How hot is San Diego's Little Italy? The best new restaurant of the year, Juniper & Ivy, landed there in March. The second most buzz-worthy spot, Ironside Fish & Oyster, opened a few weeks later. Neighborhood stalwart Indigo Grill was revamped to bring in elements of Peruvian cuisine, a current foodie favorite. Read...
Musician Dreams of Publishing Italian Song Book
"Although I have been busy writing about traveling around the globe, I have been getting arrangements to put together an Italian Gig Book," said piano player Tony Di Bona. He, and vocalist wife Giovanna, run Roman Holiday Music. "We do weddings, festivals and themed parties, just to name a few," said the Italian-American who is a native of San Dieg...
Dimmi tutto, the new Cafe teaching how to have coffee in the perfect Italian style
Making an Italian coffee is considered an art. But what about having a real espresso and enjoying that moment as most Italians do? While the ability of preparing a good coffee has been improving since Italians came to America, the Italian way of having away coffee has never become a real trend. Read more Fonte: L'italo-Am...
Le basiliche italiane in California. Quando Sant’Ambrogio ha ispirato la Powell Library e la Royce Hall
Affermare che storicamente ci sia stata, e continui a esserci tuttora, una profonda influenza della cultura italiana nei confronti degli Stati Uniti (senza mai dimenticare, ovviamente, il grande ascendente inverso), può essere un fatto abbastanza pacifico e – per certi versi – assodato. Ma quando dalle asserzioni più generali si passa alle...