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by Mauro Battocchi   Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a living legend. Meeting with him at Caffè Puccini in North Beach was a special moment. I grew up reading a lot of the Beat Generation. Ferlinghetti was at the epicenter of this literary and existential movement: as proprietor of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, he sold and published many...

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SAN FRANCISCO - L'associazione culturale Leonardo da Vinci ha presentato una conferenza su uno dei più grandi patrimoni culturali d'Italia, l'antica Pompei, dal titolo "If these Walls could speak: Pompeian Wall Painting". L'evento, che ha registrato una grande affluenza di pubblico data la notorietà di questa storica associazione di San Francisco,...

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"I have been coming for nearly 25 years to the Girls' Town Fashion Show and Luncheon and I am thrilled to be a co-chairwoman with Marilyn Kinney. It is important to empower young women. We are very pleased to have Carmen Marc Valvo presenting his spring collection," said Romana Bracco, co-chairwoman.   Live auction items include a vacation t...

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Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival with the Carmel Bach Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute present "Italian Chamber Music - Vivaldi's Four Seasons".   Program:Ottorino Respighi - Notturno for Piano; Gioacchino Rossini - Fantasie for Clarinet and Piano; Gian Carlo Menotti - Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano; Antonio Vivaldi - The...

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You can join the San Francisco Opera this season for the World Premiere of La Ciociara – "Two Women" in English – a story about the cruelty of war, loss of innocence and intense love of a mother for a daughter.   Nicola Luisotti, director of both the San Francisco Opera since September 2009 and music director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Na...

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Albert Russell Ascoli, Terrill Dis-tinguished Professor, teaches in the Department of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley. His principal field of research and teaching is Medieval and Early Modern Italian culture from the 13th to the 16th centuries.   He is the author of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge University Press, 2008).&nb...

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by Tony Bravo   With real estate at a premium in San Francisco, there's been a lot of creative repurposing of spaces in the city of late, especially in the arts. This was evident at the grand reopening of the Italian Cultural Institute (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) on Wednesday in Opera Plaza.   Previously in North Beach, this center...

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By Mauro Battocchi   United Ventures, la più grande società di Venture Capital italiana dedicata alle tecnologie digitali, ha annunciato un round di investimenti di tipo A di 4 milioni di dollari per supportare Cloud4Wi nella sua espansione internazionale, a San Francisco. Un bell'esempio di come il software italiano abbia la qualita' per cr...

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Hoping to revitalize its brand, A.G. Ferrari Foods hired a new CEO — Jarett Peppard — and is making other changes as it prepares to move into its recently acquired Alameda headquarters next month. Peppard, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America who has more than 20 years experience in the grocery industry, will take over as CEO of the 95-...

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By Mauro Battocchi   It's San Francisco Design Week and today Italy continues its design dance in the limelight with the opening of an exhibition of the great Vico Magistretti's work at the Italian Cultural Institute (814 Montgomery Street) at 6:30PM.   The exhibition, made possible by the Fondazione Studio Museo Vico Magistretti in M...

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