San Jose Earthquakes Italian Heritage Night vs Toronto FC
Join the Bay Area Italian community at the Quakes Italian Heritage Night! Come unite as the local Italian community and cheer on the Quakes as they take on Toronto FC on March 25th at 7:30PM at PayPal Park. $10 of each ticket benefits Little Italy San Jose. Buy tickets here. Local Italian Community Partners: Italian Heritage Celebration, Italian Co...
Silicon Alleys: True Romance at the Littlest Little Italy
Across the street from Henry’s Hi-Life, I ordered a $16 True Romance right where the $3.50 breakfast used to be. The old building at the corner of St. John Street and N. Almaden Boulevard has transformed itself yet again into a glorious interconnected mesh of component parts. The former Enoteca La Storia restaurant space now contains multiple Itali...
Lidia Bastianich to receive the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Awards at the TASTE AWARDS
The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Award. THE ANDREW ZIMMERN DISCOVERY AWARD honors the mission to discover new cultures, new flavors, or new talent. The inaugural winners of this new award were Andrew Zimmern and Tyler Florence. This year’s winner, based on years of contributions to culin...
Raffaella Valentini is the new Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles
As of last March 1, Raffaella Valentini is the new Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles. Roman, born in 1975, Valentini graduated in political science from the University of Rome and entered the diplomatic career in 2003. Her first assignment at the Farnesina is at the Directorate General for Development Cooperation. In 2008, the first mandate ab...
San Diego's Decades-Old Nicolosi's Italian Reopening This Week In New Location
San Diego's nearly 70 year-old red sauce Italian restaurant Nicolosi's has relocated for the fourth time in its long history and will reopen this week in East County. Sicily-native Salvatore Nicolosi opened the original Nicolosi's as a bakery in 1952 in the Mission Hills neighborhood before moving it to 40th and El Cajon Boulevard in 1954. In 1991,...
InnovIT Is Looking For Marketing And Operations Associate
INNOVIT Marketing & Operations Associate. Full-time or Part-time, 12-month contract (6-month option available). Start Date: Upon Hire. Reports to: Manager of Operations. The role – Key Responsibilities – Not inclusive of all responsibilities: Marketing and Community Engagement; Logistics and Events Management; Facility Administrative Activities. Wh...
Italian film actor Giancarlo Giannini honored with Hollywood Walk of Fame star
A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Monday honoring Giancarlo Giannini for a career which included a best actor Oscar nomination, part of an extensive collaboration with legendary Italian director Lina Wertmuller. “This is a wonderful moment, and I’m very happy to be here,” Giannini told the crowd during the unveiling ceremony. “I wan...
Il Casaro Pizzeria fires up a larger menu at the Marina’s new Casaro Osteria
North Beach’s Il Casaro Pizzeria on Columbus Avenue has been among San Francisco’s go-to favorites for Napolitan-style since opening in 2014. It’s popularity led to a second Il Casaro in the Castro three years later, with the same team also opening the North Beach Roman-style pizzeria Barbaro Pinsera in 2018, and California Fish Market a few blocks...
Giorgio Chiellini dedicates his first MLS goal to a former teammate
The reigning champions, the Los Angeles Football Club, faced Portland Timbers to start the 2023 Major League Soccer season after the week 1 matchup against the LA Galaxy was postponed last week due to the severe weather conditions. Prior to the game against the Timbers, the Black & Gold received their 2022 MLS Cup championship rings in a special pr...
Monini's olive oils win five Oscars in Los Angeles
Monini’s mono cultivars Frantoio, Coratina, and Nocellara 100% Italian organic olive oils have won no fewer than five Oscars – including four gold ones, a Best of Show, and a Best of Class – at the Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition, one of the five most important international competitions in the extra virgin olive oil se...
MBRASCATU in concert at Libreria Pino
When: Friday, March 17, 2023 At 7:30 pm - Where: Libreria Pino, 1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco - Co-presented by Istituto Italiano di Cultura San Francisco and Libreria Pino Mbrascatu a cross-pollination of numerous influences, including spaghetti Westerns, immigrant dance music of Eastern Europe, psych rock, folk, to create a unique blend of sounds...
Gianfranco Ferré’s Skills and Creativity on Display at Los Angeles Exhibition
It’s called Gianfranco Ferré. Design Principles the exhibition organized at the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles from February 8th to May 15th. Dedicated to the famous Milanese fashion designer who died in 2007, it was curated and opened by Paola Bertola, professor of Design at the Politecnico di Milano, and Rita Airaghi, steer advisor of...