Sons of Italy dinner raises money for scholarships
by Nick Notarnicola The Enrico Caruso Lodge #1463 in Visalia is part of the Sons of Italy in America and has been in existence since 1927 in Visalia. Each year, our lodge gives several scholarships to deserving high school seniors with Italian heritage from our local high schools. This year we are giving out nine scholarships totaling...
Aldo Roccaro New YOUNG ISSNAF Co-Coordinator
by Monica Veronesi I am pleased to announce that Aldo Roccaro (click here for BIO), M.D. PhD Senior scientist at Harvard will be Young ISSNAF's co-coordinator. He will be working closely with Chiara Gabbi, MD, PhD - our Young ISSNAF Coordinator and Member of ISSNAF's Board of Trustees - to grow and manage Young ISSNAF's activities. ...
492 great things about being Italian
Wednesday January 20, 2016 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM , Italian Cultural Institute, 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite F - San Francisco, CA 94102. Boze Hadleigh, author of Celebrity Feuds! and Hollywood and Whine, has written more than 15 books and has been a winner on Jeopardy! Boze also writes extensively for magazines, and his work has appe...
Maria Manetti Shrem Grants Available for 2016 Italian AP
I have great news for the Italian language campaign in the Bay Area: as part of the enduring We Love Italian campaign, grants have now been made available honoring Italian philanthropist Lady Maria Manetti Shrem to students who take the 2016 Italian AP Exam. As you know, engagement in Italian language instruction has rebounded after a rec...
Praying for Italy: A Candlelight Vigil at City Hall
By Ann Potenza On Monday August 29th, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilman Joe Buscaino and Italian Consul General Antonio Verde, together with the Los Angeles Italo-American community, organized a candlelight vigil on the steps of City Hall to pay tribute to the victims of the recent earthquake in central Italy and raise awareness for relief efforts....
San Antonio Winery’s 100 years of palatable delights
by Valerio Viale On October 13th, San Antonio Winery, kicked off its 100th anniversary on its historic location in Downtown L.A. – once in the heart of the city's Little Italy. Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, Mayor Garcetti's Chief of Staff Ana Guerrero and L.A. City Councilmembers, Gil Cedillo and Jose Huizar presided at the...
Sardinian textiles and more at the IIC in San Francisco
January 19 - February 24, 2017. Sardinian Textiles: An Exhibit of Contemporary + Antique Handwoven Art An exhibit of hand-woven textiles from Sardinia, Italy, opens at the Italian Cultural Institute - San Francisco on January 19, 2017. The exhibit will feature contemporary weavings from the few remaining tessitori artigianali, Sa...
Mayor 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. (Newark, by the way, is...
Sedotti dal cioccolato Grando: puro italiano
di Silvia Simonetti Nancy Grando è una persona dolcissima e un'autentica cioccolataia. Grazie all'attività del padre e del suo futuro marito, Stefano Grando, originario di Bassano del Grappa in Veneto, nel settore dell'alta gioielleria artigianale, Nancy è sempre stata circondata da cose belle. Allo stesso tempo, attorno a le...
Italian identities through war
Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 - Saturday, January 24, 2015 Hours: 10am - 5pm Venue: Herbert Morris Seminar Room 306 Organized by: UCLA dept. of Italian In collaboration with: IIC The conference seeks to examine the experience of war as a seminal factor in the formation of identity within the Italian context and the ways this critical...
Italian art and architecture in the Bay Area: then and now
February 3, 2015 - Tuesday 6:00 PM - 9:00 PMClub Fugazi- Beach Blanket Babylon. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon - San Francisco, California 94133 Italian Community Services and BAIA (Business Association Italy America) join together to host a lively evening of networking and conversation about how Italian art and architecture has...
Cinecittà touts Italian tax credits to Hollywood
CEO Giuseppe Basso and Cristina Giubbetti, sales manager international productions, were touting key changes that among other things allow Cinecittà Studios to act as an Italian production service company. The change means the 78-year-old Rome institution has shifted its position to not only provide a range of studio amenities and adviso...