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By Alex Hochman At 6 p.m. on a recent freezing cold Tuesday in perhaps The City's foggiest neighborhood, one restaurant was already quoting a 45-minute wait and the buzz inside was palpable.   An extraverted, well-dressed host with a thick Italian accent greeted patrons with shouts of "buono sera!" that sounded so genuine one might think he...

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Donna Scala, a dynamic chef and restaurateur who influenced Northern California cuisine with Bistro Don Giovanni in Napa and Scala's Bistro in San Francisco, died of a brain tumor at her home in Napa on Tuesday. She was 60 years old.   A fixture on the Bay Area food scene, Mrs. Scala was known for her vibrancy as well as her cooking. She gr...

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Commissioned by San Francisco Opera, the world premiere of Two Women / La Ciociara (2015) raises enduring and complex questions about love, loyalty, and the legacy of war.   This opera takes its name from the eponymous Italian novel by Alberto Moravia that was adapted for the screen by Vittorio De Sica, thus making cinematic history when Sop...

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15-16 May: lecture and poetry reading.   Valerio Magrelli is a professor of French literature at the University of Cassino and a frequent contributor to the cultural pages of several Italian dailies. He is the author of several scholarly works on French literature as well as four prize-winning poetry collections. His poems have been translat...

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The Louis Vuitton Cup finals have been more about survival than sailing.   Emirates Team New Zealand fell out of the second race of the series because of a mechanical problem Sunday, handing Italy's Luna Rossa a victory that evened the finals at one apiece.   Read more   Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com  

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by Mauro Battocchi   In four years, the Mind the Bridge (MTB) accelerator and startup school in San Francisco has nurtured over 2000 startups and graduated over 250 aspiring entrepreneurs with a real impact on the Italian startup scene. The startup school is also expanding into the international scene and hosting entrepreneurs from Israel, K...

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L'Italian Business & Invetsment Initiative (IB&II) ha creato dal 2011 un presidio qualificato a New York che svolge due funzioni:   1) Rete di relazioni qualificate con gli operatori finanziari Usa, sia private equity che venture capital, per facilitare l'espansione in quel mercato delle piccole e medie e delle start up italiane in p...

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Today we have the pleasure to publish a guest post by Ken Borrelli, a leader of the Italian American Heritage Foundation of San Jose. Ken focuses on what he describes as a "Second Diaspora", i.e. what he sees as the demise of Italian ethnic neighborhoods in the Bay Area. This is great food for thought.   Ken's article raises questions that m...

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by Mauro Battocchi   Mike Homer, Italy's Honorary Consul to Utah since 2008, is a historian among many other talents and has written several books on the American West and Mormonism. In 2007, the Mormon History Association awarded him the Steven Christensen Best Documentary Book Award for On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in...

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The San Francisco Wine Exchange (SFWE), America's oldest independent wine marketing agency and a leading importer of fine wine, announced today the appointment of Diego Lo Prete to the position of General Manager, Executive Vice President. Lo Prete's new position was effective January 20, 2014. Lo Prete will report to Hugh Thacher, President of SFW...

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