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Solare Ristorante is named Best Italian Restaurant in the 2014 restaurant issue of San Diego Magazine. Additionally in the same issue, Solare's Executive Chef Accursio Lotà was named Best Chef in San Diego.   Both awards were in the readers' pick category, making the recognition that much more significant. "We are a family-run, farm-to-table...

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Cristina Della Coletta, a professor of Italian and an associate dean at the University of Virginia, has been appointed dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego.   "With her cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research and experience, Cristina Della Coletta is uniquely poised to lead a vibrant division at UC Sa...

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First-run local premieres will be the order of the day at the ninth annual San Diego Italian Film Festival (feStivale 2015), scheduled from Thursday, Oct. 15, to Saturday, Oct. 24, with all but one of the films produced in the last two years. Moreover, all but one of the entries are San Diego premieres.   "Going into our ninth year," fe...

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Rita's Italian Ice®, the world's largest Italian Ice concept with over 600 stores, has awarded its largest area franchise development agreement ever to Rita's GP, LLC, a business unit of a diverse business development group based in Old Town San Diego. Like so many others in San Diego, one of the partners is a transplant from the Philadelphia area,...

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by Robert Gallo   Taking on a bold and daring adventure, Pietro Busalacchi and wife Cristina immigrated to San Diego with their 7 children, Anna, Tony, Sal, Frank and Joe in 1966, leaving their hometown of Porticello, Sicily and came to settle in San Diego's Little Italy.    They worked hard to instill the Sicilian tradition and...

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The Italian American writer Robert Viscusi will be reading his poems at the Italian Cultural Center on March 2nd! Like most Italian Americans born since the 1940s, Robert Viscusi grew up without being able to speak ten sentences in the native language of his grandparents and parents. The Second World War made it a dangerous thing for Italians in t...

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The first actual Blue Jays news from the Winter Meetings in San Diego is that the team has claimed first basemen Chris Colabello off waivers from the Minnesota Twins. The Italian-American grinded out seven years in independent ball after playing Division II college ball before eventually being signed by Minnesota in 2012.   He made his major...

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by Robert Gallo   Convivio, San Diego's Little Italy non-profit organization, was founded in 2003 to promote all things Italian. It was formed to encourage and promote closer ties to the study of Italian language, arts, and culture.   Sponsored by businesses and restaurants in San Diego the organization has hosted a myriad of literary...

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"Welcome to feStival 2014," reads Victor Laruccia's website announcement; "It's an Italian Party in the Piazza." So begins the 8th Annual San Diego Italian Film Festival beginning October 16 and running through the 25th.   The first offering is Anni Felici, Daniele Luchetti's discerning look at his childhood through the antics and acting of...

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by Robert Gallo   Approximately 20 years ago, Paola Bonacina Benzoni, and her husband left Italy when he came to work at the University of California at San Diego on a special project; lucky for her clients, she brought her flair and expertise for Italianate style and design with her.   "My husband and I miss Italy very much, but we'v...

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