New Desco brings a dash of fine-dining Italian flair to Old Oakland
When Italian-born executive chef Donato Scotti decided to open a second venue to complement his home-country regionally inspired four-year-old Donato Enoteca in Redwood City, he settled on Old Oakland. His new restaurant, Desco, which translates from Latin as "dinner table," adds to Oakland's growing list of destination spots worth the sho...
Irene Russo and Tom Djll
In conjunction with the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, sfSoundSalonSeries is pleased to present Italian virtuoso Irene Russo in a program of solo works for piano spanning the entire 20th century to the present, with works by Debussy, Malipiero, Takemitsu, Procaccini, and Widmann. She'll be followed by Tom Djll's HackMIDI, pia...
Patrons of Italian Culture hold Annual Ferragosto Event in Marina del Rey
by Paul Romano The Patrons of Italian Culture returned once again to the Marina del Rey harbor and the Zagat rated "Sapori" Restaurant for their 2014 Ferragosto, reports Paul Romano, Patron President. Owner Stefano Baccianella out did himself with a marvelous luncheon of fresh antipasti, home made pastas and two fine main dishes;...
AFI Fest Honors Sophia Loren
AFI FEST 2014 will Honor Sophia Loren with a Special Tribute WEDNESDAY, November 12, 2014 AFI 8-day film festival from November 6 - 13 Hollywood As part of the Tribute the movie "Marriage Italian Style" (directed by Vittorio De Sica, 1964), will be screened in an event open to the public in the 50th anniversary of the Academy Award®-nomi...
Join an Exciting Cross-Cultural Competition for High Schoolers
I'm thrilled to introduce an exciting new competition open to all public and private high school students in San Francisco, California and New York City, New York called "Pisan Romanesque meets Contemporary America". This educational contest will teach American high schoolers about the awe-inspiring Pisan Romanesque period and promote a de...
Criminal Lawyer Practices Gondola Skills
Attorney Alan Macina began his litigation career in a criminal defense firm, but he had already had his eye on becoming a gondolier, and actually began practicing his gondola skills while in law school. Piloting a gondola has been the lawyer's hobby and passion since 2001. "I knew in law school, when I interned, that I wanted to be a crimi...
The Sons Of Italy California in Modesto Showcase the Best of Italian Heritage
Since 1905, the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA) founded in New York City by Dr. Vincenzo Sellaro has played a key role in preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of American of Italian descent. Among the 55 lodges throughout California, Oregon and Nevada, called the Grand Lodge of California, the chapter for the Modesto Lodge has recen...
Giada De Laurentiis Buying Spanish-Style Estate in Pacific Palisades
by Jamie Wiebe A month after the dissolution of her 12-year marriage, culinary sensation Giada De Laurentiis is ready to whip up something new—and the enormous country-style kitchen of her future Spanish-style estate in Pacific Palisades, CA, is the perfect place to start. The Italian-American chef is a three-time Daytime Emmy nom...
Meet the author: Camilla Baresani
Date: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 Time: 6:00 PM. Location: IIC (601 Van Ness Ave, Suite F, San Francisco)In conversation with the journalist Enrico Deaglio, author of Patria 1978-2008 Meet the author: Camilla BaresaniCamilla Baresani is an Italian writer. The author of novels, essays and pieces for the theatre, she lives in Milan where she teache...
Separate But Equal: men and women of the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club
For nearly a century, the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club has stood by its Latin motto: Mens Sana in Corpore Sano—a healthy mind in a healthy body. It has also stood by another tradition—women need not apply. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the monthly "stag dinner" where members and their male guests have assembled for decades to...
Associazione Liguri nel Mondo celebrate La Festa dei Fiori
The evening of Saturday, April 13, 2013 the San Francisco Chapter of the Associazione Liguri nel Mondo celebrated, at the Basque Cultural Center of South San Francisco, its twenty-seventh (27 th) annual Festa dei Fiori. The event was emceed by the newly-elected President, Arlene Callegari. The 127 members and guests feasted on soup, salad and a ch...
Festa Italiana! brings touch of Italy to Sacramento
By Brittany Torrez The piazza in Italy is an open square surrounded by shops and eateries, where people can gather together and enjoy conversation while sipping vino. For an Italian "vacation" that's closer to home, organizers of the Festa Italiana! will transform the Mediterranean-style Croatian American Cultural Center on Auburn Boulevar...