Il Presidente dell'Agenzia Ice, Riccardo Monti, sarà in visita ufficiale a Los Angeles dal 14 al 17 febbraio prossimi per prendere contatto con la realtà economica e commerciale californiana e presentare le nuove opportunità di investimento e collaborazione con l'Italia. Tra gli altri, il presidente Monti incontrerà il Consiglio d'Amministrazione...

By Mauro Battocchi If you were thinking about visiting Milan in 2015 for the Expo, you can get a taste of this remarkable city without leaving the Bay.   Before August 11th, swing by the Cannery (2801 Leavenworth) and check out the New Italian Design 2.0 Exhibition, which boasts intriguing design displays brought to the Bay by Milano's Trie...

Important cooperation agreements were signed between Naples and San Francisco in the fields of human rights, technology, and science this past Friday, October 25th. Creating new cooperation programs between Neapolitan and San Franciscan organizations, these agreements were penned in the presence of Naples' Mayor Luigi de Magistris at the Italian C...

FIAT Brand North America will bring a splash of color to this year's Los Angeles Auto Show by commissioning noted Italian artist Nicola Verlato to paint an Italian masterpiece, inspired by one of the most recognized fresco works of the Renaissance era, inside a Fiat 500L. Verlato will paint his masterpiece, which will pay homage to elements of Mich...

San Diego's Italian Cultural Center will be holding a memorial service for its co-founder and Vice President, Graziella Spinelli at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, in Little Italy on Saturday, December 13th at 12 p.m. Following the funeral a reception will be hosted by Graziella's sister at the church hall.   Upon attempting to teach her nati...

di Francesco Salvatore Cagnazzo   PERCHE' SE NE PARLA Tutta l'America rende omaggio a Frank Sinatra, The Voice, nato da padre palermitano, esattamente, di Lercara Friddi, e da madre ligure, di Lumarzo. Il 12 dicembre il mito della musica avrebbe dovuto compiere 100 anni, ma le celebrazioni sono già ben avviate.   A New York c'è la mos...

by Jenn Harris   Before Vincenzo Marianella, the cocktail scene in Los Angeles, compared with London and New York, was a sticky wasteland of sweet-and-sour mix, triple sec and bottled lime juice. Then a 6-foot-4 Italian guy from a tiny town in Italy called Tolmezzo stepped behind the bar at Providence in 2005, started using fresh citrus and...

by Carl Nolte   Gus Villalta was one of those young men you used to see around North Beach in San Francisco all the time in tough times of the Great Depression of the 1930s. He was born in Italy, raised in San Francisco and had just graduated from Galileo High School. Work was scarce when he got out of school in 1935. It was the Great...

by Alex Kramers   A sharpshooting swingman with a knack for stepping up at crucial junctures, Marco Belinelli is an undoubtedly welcome addition to a Sacramento squad that ranked 28th in both three-point makes (461) and attempts (1,350) and 20th in three-point percentage (34.1) in 2014-15. The ninth-year pro placed fifth in the League in do...

In 1973, the U.S. Postal Service issued a special 21¢ stamp with a portrait of Amadeo P. Giannini. If you haven't heard of Giannini, you've probably heard of the bank he founded: The Bank of America. Born in 1870 in San Jose, California, Giannini was born to two Italian immigrants originally from Favale di Malvaro, a town near Genoa in Liguria. Pe...