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by Nickolas Marinelli   It was like a Chamber of Commerce mixer on steroids. Representatives from some of the most exclusive providers of Italian luxury products and services gathered at the Italian Consulate in San Francisco to mix and mingle with each other, and with those for whom champagne wishes and caviar dreams are a way of life. &nb...

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La Scuola is a preK-4 school growing to be a K-8. Our mission: to nurture children's innate ability to learn by challenging them academically, creatively and innovatively, while immersing them in the Italian language and making them keenly aware of the world around them and their place in it.   La Scuola is currently seeking an experien...

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by Mauro Battocchi   We're honored that Viola Buitoni's monthly classes on the traditions and trends of Italian cooking, held in the private kitchen of San Francisco's Italian Consulate, have now resumed. The next class is on the 2nd of October. In these intimate hands-on workshops, students integrate Italian regional cuisine and seasonal i...

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By: Francesco Romano   For the 94th time, the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (SFIAC) hosted the Statuto Race in North Beach. The Statuto Race commemorates the Statuto Albertino, the Italian "constitution" that laid the ground work for the unification of Italy in the nineteenth century.   Each year since 1920, the race has been ru...

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The National Italian American Heritage and Culture Month of October was designated by United States Presidential Proclamation. Coinciding with the festivities surrounding Columbus Day, the proclamation is in recognition of the many achievements, contributions, and successes of Americans of Italian descent as well as Italians in America.   Ov...

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by Bianca Friundi   Fall is around the corner in the Bay Area, and with it comes Lido Cantarutti's Italian Film Festival of acclaimed comedy and drama directly from Italy. The Festival is an abiding favorite, eagerly awaited by Marin County residents as well as San Francisco natives.   Now in its 39th year, the Festival showcases the...

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Thursday, November 12 at 6:30pm. Museo Italo Americano - Fort Mason Center - 2 Marina Blvd., Building C - San Francisco, CA 94123 The celebrated film director Frank Capra, a native of Sicily, was always insecure about how much he belonged in America. During that less enlightened time of the early 1900s when he grew up in Los An...

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Don't miss the "Italian Matters Because..." event this Saturday at 4:00 PM at the Museo Italo Americano. Professors, lecturers and technologists will come together and show how learning la dolce lingua can change your life and your career, as well as expand on the larger significance of multilingual literacy in our modern world. But, that's not al...

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The FIAT Brand is debuting its unique urban beach party series – the Fiat 500L Urban Surf Party – in six major U.S. cities beginning this month to celebrate the launch of the new 2014 Fiat 500L in North America. The six parties, the first of which took place in Miami Beach (FL) this past weekend (Friday, August 2) at the Bass Museum of Art, will co...

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By Antonio Gonzalez   Emirates Team New Zealand is trying to wrap up a spot in the America's Cup match against defending champion Oracle Team USA as fast as it can. The only thing slowing it down is the weather.   The Kiwis set a race record of more than 54 mph on the new 72-foot catamarans Saturday, sailing swiftly in a strong wind t...

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