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Finally coming to fruition as part of 2013 Year of the Italian Culture in the US, the project's first major initiatives will include two major events in San Francisco: the Meeting Between the Two Mayors and the Gala Dinner in June and the Concert of the Two Bays in October. The Viva L'Italia Gala Dinner to benefit October's Concert of the Two Bays...

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by Roberto Natalini   As the traveling exhibition "Italy of The Future" makes its round of the world's major cultural capitals, the innovative international tour is now arriving in the City by the Bay. After its debut in Tokyo last April, 2013, cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Budapest will soon have an opportunity to meet th...

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Forza Giants fans and Italophiles alike! Come catch the action at iconic AT&T Park this month and connect with your Italian heritage.   This beautiful stadium is nestled against San Francisco Bay and, if the action on the field lulls, the bleacher seats can gaze out over the water and watch the container ships drift by. Usually, though,...

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By Mauro Battocchi If you were thinking about visiting Milan in 2015 for the Expo, you can get a taste of this remarkable city without leaving the Bay.   Before August 11th, swing by the Cannery (2801 Leavenworth) and check out the New Italian Design 2.0 Exhibition, which boasts intriguing design displays brought to the Bay by Milano's Trie...

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Important cooperation agreements were signed between Naples and San Francisco in the fields of human rights, technology, and science this past Friday, October 25th. Creating new cooperation programs between Neapolitan and San Franciscan organizations, these agreements were penned in the presence of Naples' Mayor Luigi de Magistris at the Italian C...

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by Carl Nolte   Gus Villalta was one of those young men you used to see around North Beach in San Francisco all the time in tough times of the Great Depression of the 1930s. He was born in Italy, raised in San Francisco and had just graduated from Galileo High School. Work was scarce when he got out of school in 1935. It was the Great...

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In 1973, the U.S. Postal Service issued a special 21¢ stamp with a portrait of Amadeo P. Giannini. If you haven't heard of Giannini, you've probably heard of the bank he founded: The Bank of America. Born in 1870 in San Jose, California, Giannini was born to two Italian immigrants originally from Favale di Malvaro, a town near Genoa in Liguria. Pe...

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"Research, discovery, and innovation are keys to understanding the spirit of the Year of Italian Culture in the United States. This project, organized under the auspices of the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, aims at showcasing Italian creativity and culture both in our artistic heritage and in our "Made in Italy" (brand), po...

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Pianists Anthony Porter and Sarah Cahill, Soprano Amy Foote, and Bass Richard Mix present an evening of Italian contemporary pocket operas suspended in between the humorous and the apocalyptic.   Featured works are Fabrizio de Rossi Re's King Kong, amore mio (King Kong, My Love; 2011), on a libretto by Luis Gabriel Santiago, and the wor...

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by Mauro Battocchi   Good news for the new Italian cinema in San Francisco: after winning the Tribeca Film Fest's Nora Ephron Prize in New York City, Laura Bispuri has just won the Golden Gate Awards New Directors Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival - $ 10,000 in cash - for her Sworn Virgin. The jury was composed of produc...

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