Join The Italian Community for Museo Night and Grab Some Grub at “Off the Grid”
On Friday, June 17 the Museo Italo Americano (Fort Mason Center, Building C) will fling open its doors to the public from 5:00 - 7:30 p.m for Museo Night. On this special evening, guests are invited to enter the Museo free of charge and enjoy the galleries, including the latest exhibit "Quattro Storie", as well as hear the music of some of Italy's...
The Story of Italian Food in Los Angeles, From Chianti to Burrata
What enters your mind when twirling fennel pollen–dusted spaghetti around your fork? Probably not much more than "Just how quickly can I get this into my mouth?" And that's fair, because L.A.'s emerging renditions of Italian cuisine are incredible. But there's a story behind all that beautiful bread and cheese. Italian food wasn't always held in th...
LA, Italia Fest to Honor Actor Marcello Mastroianni
A retrospective of films starring Italy's most iconic actor is coming to Hollywood. The upcoming LA, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest will be dedicated to iconic Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni and include a retrospective of films featuring the beloved leading man of directors including Antonioni, Fellini, De Sica, Germi, Scola and Viscont...
La Società più vecchia
When Ettore Patrizi declared San Francisco's Italian community of 1911 to be La Colonia Modello, he pointed to a number of factors that he believed made it so. One of those factors was the proliferation of Italian institutions and societies that flourished in the Colony. Among them was La Società Italiana di Mutua Beneficenza, the Italian Mutual Be...
It's Italy Tech Week in the Bay Area
Italian Innovation Day, The Future of Information Technology, Clean Tech Italia in San FranciscoOn the occasione of "2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US" the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Institute of Culture of San Francisco have proudly announced the "Italy Tech Week." The groundbreaking week will start next Tuesday, March 12, 20...
Festa della Repubblica Events in San Francisco
by Nickolas Marinelli As la Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day) approaches, San Francisco's Italian Community is preparing for three events that have marked the day for decades in the City by the Bay. Besides the invitation-only celebration hosted by the Italian Consulate each year, San Francisco will pay special tribute to la patria on...
Merola Opera and San Francisco Public Library to Continue 'Merola Goes to the Movies' Series with OTELLO
The Merola Opera Program and the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch are teaming up for Merola Goes to the Movies, a new, free series that presents great opera-themed movies. The acclaimed 1986 film version of Otello, starring Plácido Domingo and Katia Ricciarelli, will be screened on Sunday, November 3rd at 1 pmin the Koret Auditorium at the...
Italian American Museum May Open By Summer
With the restoration of the exterior set to begin shortly, the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles is on schedule to open in the second half of 2014, and possibly as soon as summer, said executive director Marianna Gatto. The long-in-the-works museum's permanent exhibition, focusing on the history of Italian Americans in Los Angeles and Souther...
Dopo New York ora anche Los Angeles L'olio di Vetralla ha conquistato gli Usa
Dopo New York, Los Angeles. Già riconosciuto il migliore al mondo nella categoria "Biologico delicato", l'olio Tamìa di Vetralla mette in bacheca un nuovo risultato. L'azienda agricola Sergio Delle Monache l'ha annunciato su Facebook: «Dopo il prestigioso "Best in class" ottenuto a New York, abbiamo ricevuto altri due riconoscimenti al "Lo...
Why does San Francisco love Fernet so goddamn much?
By Peter Lawrence Kane Fernet-Branca has been manufactured in Italy since 1845. Two years later, the tiny port village of Yerba Buena, Alta California, was renamed San Francisco. Love it or hate it, the oily Milanese digestif has a Belle Époque glamour that is inextricably tied to this city's drinking culture. While the drink's exact comp...
The book corner: Who was Mario Savio?
By Sebastian Fichera I was a high school kid with immigrant parents who worked in a factory and still struggled with the English language back in Hartford, Connecticut when I started hearing about this guy named Mario Savio causing absolute chaos in a far-away place called Berkeley. The infamous troublemaker with a name like min...
Mario Batali to Open Eataly in Los Angeles in 2017
It's happening. Yep, Mario Batali confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the newest outpost of Eataly will open in L.A., in the outdoor mall Westfield Century City. It'll be about the same size as the New York and Chicago outposts (about 5,000 square feet) but will have lots more outdoor and rooftop seating (because, you know, when in L....