The 62nd Annual North Beach Festival
In its 62nd year, The North Beach Festival is considered one of the country's original outdoor Festivals. The event is situated in the historic North Beach District, known to locals and visitors alike as San Francisco's Little Italy and the home of the famed beat generation. The Festival site includes numerous quaint streets in the heart of th...
Omaggio a Firenze
In occasione del 50esimo anniversario dell'inondazione del 1966, vogliamo celebrare l'eterna bellezza della citta'. In collaborazione con la Leonardo da Vinci Society e con il Bookbinders Museum of San Francisco. Verra' esposta una selezione di fotografie contemporanee insieme alla presentazione del libro di Mike Nelsen, che esplorano la b...
Italy’s Arduino Innovation: 30 Case Projects
di Mauro Battocchi We've already discussed Massimo Banzi's milestone innovation — the Arduino Chip — and how it continues a line of Italian innovation in microelectronics started by Federico Faggin, the father of the commercial microprocessor. Yet, although the Arduino innovation is impacting innovators and makers the world over,...
The IIC special gift for the Holidays: a new art tour with the app Italy Art L.A.
by Silvia Simonetti A couple of weeks prior to the Christmas Holidays, all the friends of the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles were invited to celebrate both the fes- tive season and the launch of the 4th itinerary designed for Italy Art L.A. The smartphone application, developed by Alessandro Marianantoni's Mediars, is c...
A New Year and a New Consul General in LA
You are invited to meet the new Italian Consul General in Los Angeles! ANTONIO VERDE Welcoming Reception Tuesday, January 20, 2015 4:30 - 8:00 PM Bowers Museum - 2002 N. Main Street, Santa Ana Join the Orange County community of leaders, restaurateurs and key members from businesses, Italian American organizations an...
Fifteenth Annual Benefit For North Beach Citizens
by Mauro Aprile Zanetti It was spring 2000 when film director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola (currently a successful wine producer in the Napa Valley as well), came out with an idea that promptly involved poet, activist and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers co-founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jeannette Hether...
Annette Funicello spopolava negli anni Cinquanta in tivù tra i baby boomer, morta in California all'età di 70 anni
di Riccardo Chioni Un'intera generazione di ragazzini s'era invaghita di lei, le teenager invece l'avevano eletta compagna ideale negli anni Cinquanta, quando Annette Funicello, la star sbarazzina acqua e sapone che nei panni di Mouseketeer entrava nelle case degli americani col programma "The Mickey Mouse Club", in bianco e nero sul picco...
The Tower Records Project in Sacramento
"It was more than music." This is the slogan of the campaign launched by Hot Italian, a modern Italian-American joint venture Pizzeria in Sacramento, in collaboration with the Tower Records Project. The project was established to fund the preservation of Tower-related history donated to the Center for Sacramento History by Tower founder and Sacram...
Fugazi mantiene la promessa
by Mauro Battocchi We last left our guest post series with John Fugazi, the magnanimous Italian benefactor of the Italian community in San Francisco. Today, Nickolas Marinelli, the Northern California Editor for L'Italo-Americano, continues the Fugazi story and tells how he kept his promise to the community. Local news was rarely seen on...
Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design
Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778) was a printmaker, architect, antiquarian, art dealer, theorist, and designer—one of the foremost artistic personalities of the 18th century, whose views of Rome remain the city's defining image. Fresh, thought-provoking, and innovative, Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design sets out to show the range of the artist...
Neo-avant-garde frontiers: 50 years of group 63
The Group 63, protagonist of the Italian Neo-avant-garde - so called to distinguish it from historical 20th century Avant-gardes - was established in October of 1963 in Palermo. It brought together poets, writers and academics interested in debating aesthetic theories and in experimenting new forms of expression. The conference, with the p...
In Verdi’s “Falstaff,” all the world’s a jest
What better way to celebrate Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's bicentennial than with a production of Falstaff? This opera, which adapts William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts I and II, and the Bard's The Merry Wives of Windsor, is nothing short of a sheer delight. The title character Falstaff (baritone Roberto Frontali in makeup and a fat...