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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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"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...

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Singers Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble were discovered when the three singers appeared individually on Italy's televised singing competition – "Ti lascio una canzone." The show's creator/producer Roberto Cenci had the lads perform as a trio during the program's fourth episode, thus launching the group's career. Now Il Vol...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.  ...

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