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di Mauro Battocchi   Quando si associa un Paese con il software, in Silicon Valley si pensa a Israele, all'India, all'Irlanda, sempre più spesso anche al Cile e ai Paesi scandinavi. L'Italia è nota – oltre che per l'arte e il cibo – per la meccanica, la moda e il design. I nostri giovani imprenditori IT che bussano alle porte di San Francisc...

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There's a family that runs its history through the decades serving the town of San Francisco: before Joseph, then his daughter Angela, now her son Joseph. There's a project called Porziuncola Nuova that connected San Francisco to Saint Francis' town, Assisi. There's a square in front of a church in the North Beach, San Francisco's Little Italy, tha...

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SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't the first time an Italian had sailed from New York, around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America, and into the San Francisco Bay. Most Italians in San Francisco have family stories of their great-grandfathers making the same arduous voyage a century and a half ago, and with much less fanfare. When Captain Giovanni...

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Twelve years in action, hundred-sixty students, a staff made of thirty people, two different locations: what La Scuola - Italian International School - represents today for Italians, Americans, and other communities in San Francisco is much more than what these numbers tell.   La Piccola Scuola Italiana, founded in 2001 by some Italian-Ameri...

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A lawyer for the Italian team competing in this summer's America's Cup sailing regatta in San Francisco said on Monday that he is prepared to go to court over last-minute rule changes that came in the wake of a fatal training accident in May.The four teams competing for the cup have been meeting with mediators to reach agreement on 37 safety measur...

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by Mauro Battocchi   The International Champions Cup is coming to San Francisco on July 31st with an anticipated match between Turin's Juventus and Liverpool's Everton. It all goes down at AT&T park starting at 8:00PM. Get your tickets from here or here. Founded in 1897, Juventus FC is the oldest and most successful club in Italy claimi...

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By: Grazia Rossi   Italian Community Services has announced that the honorees for the annual dinner will be Secretary Leon and Sylvia Panetta, founders of the Panetta Institute.   The Panetta Institute for Public Policy was founded in 1997 by Leon and Sylvia Panetta. The Panetta Institute serves the entire California State University...

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by Catherine Accardi   What does one talk about when speaking with a legend? How often does one have the opportunity to speak with an icon of San Francisco's North Beach and beyond? And, in Italian, which he likes to call "la bella lingua". He enjoys being called Lorenzo.   I recently spoke with Lawrence Ferlinghetti about North Beach...

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21-23 August, Vogue Theatre, 3290 Sacramento St, SF. Frank Sinatra would be 100 this year and to celebrate Jack Daniel's is presenting "Ring-A-Ding-Ding: The Movies of Frank Sinatra" at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco.   Over the weekend of August 21, 11 of Sinatra's most iconic roles will be screened, a carefully curated selection o...

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It's back to school season and the time for self improvement is ripe. If you've always wanted to try your tongue at the bella lingua now is the time. "Strike while the iron is hot!" as the Americans say. And the good news for you, dear lingual blacksmith, is that the Bay Area has a plethora of options for you to develop and hone your Italian skills...

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