Year of Italian Culture Marches On in the Bay
With a hearty buona sera! Mayor Ed Lee had welcomed the 2013 Year of Italian Culture to the Bay Area on December 12th, 2012 at San Francisco City Hall. Thus far, the Year has offered us exciting and insightful events from Giovanni Soldini and Team Maserati's record-breaking arrival in San Francisco, Italian Innovation Day and Italy at the Cleantech...
Italy’s Viola di Grado comes to San Francisco’s Litquake
by Mauro Battocchi San Francisco's annual literary festival Litquake is gearing up for a week of panels, cross-media events and literary readings this October 11th to 19th in myriad locations around the Bay. For over a decade, Litquake has brought thousands of author appearances for an audience of over 100,000. What a great honor that risi...
Trattoria Neapolis: The south of Italy on South Lake in Pasadena
A so-called destination restaurant is an unfamiliar concept to those of us living in the culinary districts of Los Angeles. The thought of vehicular travel to some distant locale for dinner is a foreign notion, something reserved for chain restaurant-dining suburbanites. But the fact of the matter is that we all journey to other parts of town to v...
Renaissance festival a trip to 16th century Tuscany
by Ken R. Wells Lords and ladies, pirates and peasants, wizards and wenches, beer and bosoms could all be found at the sixth annual Lake Renaissance Festival held Saturday and Sunday on the outdoor grounds of Tuscan Village at Terrill Cellars Winery. The festival recreated a Tuscany, Italy, seaport village of the 16th century when...
Michelangelo and the Medici
"Michelangelo Buonarroti" and "the Medici" are usually the first two names that come to mind when we recall the heroic figures of the Italian Renaissance—Michelangelo as a supremely gifted sculptor, painter, architect and poet, the Medici as an inspired family of patrons and collectors. They were all Florentines, to be sure. But in real te...
Tri-Valley Cuisine Scene: Danville's Lotsa Pasta serves up Italian fare, homestyle charm
By Beth Jensen A meal at downtown Danville's Lotsa Pasta is less like dinner out than a home-cooked meal at a good friend's house, and that's the way owner Tom Lembo likes it. "I used to have big dinners put on at my house," recalled Lembo. "Then we opened this small little place .... Sometimes when I'm down here it's like people are coming t...
Director Marina Pugliese Is Mapping the City To Connect Artist and Cultures in The Bay Area
By Serena Perfetto Milan and San Francisco, here we go again! Many times, on this newspaper, we have talked about the legacy between the Italian and the American cities and the way artists, intellectuals, and other professionals tried to build a connection between the two contexts, considered somehow unique and similar at the same time. &...
2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio SUV finally makes debut
It's been a long time coming but Alfa Romeo's first SUV is finally here in the form of the 2018 Stelvio. Making its debut on Wednesday at the 2016 Los Angeles auto show, the Stelvio brings Italian flair and passion to the small luxury SUV segment. The name is borrowed from a small town located in the Alps of northern Italy, close to t...
GoPago is looking for a Senior Java developer in San Francisco
COMPANY DESCRIPTIONGoPago, Inc., is re-imagining the way consumers and brick-and-mortar businesses use smartphones and tablets for commerce -- giving merchants a total payment solution, including credit card, cash and mobile payments that creates operational efficiency while building customer loyalty and engagement. The San Francisco-based company...
California’s Other Little Italies
California's Mediterranean climate is similar to Italy's, so the Italian immigrants felt at home and were able to bring their food and culture to this new land. The California soil was ideal for planting crops Italians were used to growing, such as eggplant, artichokes, broccoli and Sicilian lemons. Italians also brought with them a love o...
La comunità Italiana a Los Angeles celebra il Giorno della Memoria
Anche quest'anno, come già in passato, martedì 27 gennaio, gli italiani a Los Angeles celebreranno la Giornata della Memoria della Shoah. Il Consolato Generale d'Italia, l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura e AJC Los Angeles organizzano infatti ogni anno una lettura pubblica degli 8.000 nomi delle vittime ebree italiane dell'Olocausto. ...
House of Italy at Home in Our Lady of the Rosary Church
Although the House of Italy is awaiting word as to when they can resume business at their original cottage in Balboa Park, it was business as usual in their temporary location in Our Lady of the Rosary where they held their monthly dinner and presentation meeting. After the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of the Italian National Anthe...