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Building on the momentum from Italy Tech Week and the Making in Italy, Making in the US event, The Business Association Italy America is hosting an event on October 10th from 5:30 to 9:00PM that will explore 3D printing and its real life applications.   Taking place at the legendary San Francisco TechShop — one of the world's epicenters of D...

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by Roberto Natalini   As Music Director Nicola Luisotti and San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley revealed the day prior to the performance, all three hundred and twenty artists from Teatro San Carlo and the San Francisco Opera would communicate together using only the universal language of music.   The long awaited combi...

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by Mike Silverman   Anna Caterina Antonacci is an opera star who thrives on defying expectations. A mesmerizing performer with a supple and lustrous voice, Antonacci seems equally at home in roles written for soprano or for the lower-voiced mezzo-soprano.   She has triumphed in one of the most popular of operas, Bizet's "Carmen," but...

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Dante Bini will present his book Building with Air, chronicling the invention and evolution of the remarkable 'Binishell' structural system, the inflated concrete dome Dante invented in 1964.   Dante and his son Nic Bini will also talk about subsequent 'air-powered' construction methodologies, which are becoming more technically daring and a...

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Every year, some 9 million visitors to the Louvre make their way into a gallery in which one small portrait—the lone painting on an immense freestanding wall—sits inside a bulletproof glass case, and is further protected by the watchful eyes of 24-hour security guards.   It is the most famous painting on earth and while it is unsigned, undat...

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Si avvicina il traguardo dell'Italian American Country tour, e siamo in procinto di toccare la terza e ultima costa del continente. La prima è stata, naturalmente, New York. La seconda New Orleans, approdo per molti emigrati che non videro mai Ellis Island, arrivando direttamente qui. L'ultima è San Francisco, che abbiamo preso via terra "navigando...

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Dopo il successo dell'iniziativa di giugno a NYC, AmCham organizza una nuova missione di business nella West Coast degli USA. Dal 2 all'8 novembre vi invitiamo a scoprire con noi San Francisco e la Silicon Valley. Il viaggio sarà l'occasione per conoscere e condividere i processi, i prodotti e i sistemi più innovativi delle aziende che hanno segnat...

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David Gockley and San Francisco Opera made a spectacular choice in giving us Giacomo Puccini's series of three one-act operas, Il Trittico, for its 2009/10 Season.   In the spirit of Nicola Luisotti's recent appointment as Music Director and with the intention that this year would recognize and celebrate the rich traditions of the Company's...

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by Catherine Accardi Part I of my Conversations with Lawrence Ferlinghetti appeared in the last, June 25th, 2015, issue of L'Italo Americano. Below we continue with the man and his lasting legacy. Mr. Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, N.Y. in 1919, son of Carlo Ferlinghetti, from the province of Brescia, and Clemence Albertine Mendes-Monsanto...

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Delectable delights from Italy abounded at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, which concluded today after a long and scrumptious weekend. The show is a big deal in food circles, occurring annually in San Francisco and New York. Forty thousand attendees bring over 260,000 different kinds of food from over 80 countries. Today at the Moscone Center...

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