The Italian American Studies Association-Western Regional Chapter (IASA-WRC) is pleased to offer a one-time award of $500 for a graduate student or recent graduate-degree recipient whose research focuses in a significant way on the history and culture of Italian Americans in the West.   We welcome all disciplinary approaches to the field of...

This year's New Italian Cinema Events (NICE) offers several distinct elements in the competition section, including the first-ever animated feature, an Italian production entirely in Arabic and a suspense-oriented film in the giallo tradition, among other extremely impressive first or second features.   Opening Night features a very special...

San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley and Music Director Nicola Luisotti recently delighted Bay Area opera enthusiasts by announcing next seasons opera productions, four of which are works of famous Italian composers.   The apex of the season will be the world premiere of a brand-new opera by the Italian composer Marco Tutino, L...

Taking a passeggiata along Columbus street in San Francisco can turn into a unique opportunity: in fact, in the way it keeps the authentic charm from its origins, North Beach is not a neighborhood as the others.   This is mainly due to the architecture of houses and restaurants populating the area since the late 1800s. Both residential and b...

Roma - Con l'intervento alla convention dei Cavalieri di Colombo, davanti a una platea di oltre duemila delegati provenienti da tutti gli Stati Uniti e ad altri ospiti internazionali, ha avuto inizio la missione del sindaco Gianni Alemanno a Los Angeles e San Francisco. L'intervento del sindaco ha ripercorso la quasi centenaria relazione tra la com...

More than 300 ballet fans turned out Tuesday night at the newly refurbished downtown San Francisco Prada boutique to honor the San Francisco Ballet School. As reported by wwd, pretty ballet students, perfectly poised, traded tutus for the newest Prada styles. "This is a fantastic celebration of young talent at the San Francisco Ballet School, and a...

Necessity is the mother of all invention. It's been proven time and time again, and for blooming tech company Mashape (mash + shape, pronounced muh-shape), the story is no different.   The idea for a mass-market API store was born out of the work three young Italians had been doing for another tech company, in which they sold an "explosion"...

di Mauro Battocchi Se desiderate sposarvi presso un Consolato italiano la prima cosa da fare e' la cosiddetta "istanza celebrazione matrimonio consolare". E' un documento che dovrete sottoscrivere entrambi, e che dovrete presentare di persona all'ufficio consolare, oppure inviare per posta, fax o email con allegata la fotocopia dei vostri document...

Costruire un ponte tra l'eccellenza del Made in Italy nel creare bellezza e la capacità industriale e tecnologia della Silicon Valley. È questo il fulcro del progetto Making in Italy-Making in Usa: Artisanship, Technology and Design. Innovating with Beauty, che si terrà dall'11 al 24 giugno a San Francisco nell'ambito dell'Anno della Cultura Italia...

HUMAN CAPITAL opens in theaters January 14thWatch the trailer: http://bit.ly/1v4mQHd   "Captivating from start to finish" -- The Hollywood Reporter"Engrossing, stinging...The performances are flawless" – Variety Directed by acclaimed Italian director Paolo Virzi, the award-winning film, HUMAN CAPITAL is a nuanced account of desire, greed an...