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Following the success of the 2013 film series PASOLINI, we are presenting four of the most successful and loved works by legendary Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci. BERTOLUCCI - A Film Series will engage the audience in a one-day pursuit of a dream that arose from a prolific cinematic career spanning over fifty years.   The fes...

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Mayor Joseph Alioto, predecessor of lionhearted Mayor George Moscone, was born of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. No, he wasn't born in 1906, but a little backstory will shed light on this curious connection. Joseph's father, Giuseppe Alioto, had sailed from Palermo at the age of nine to the United States and ended up working on the fishing...

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By Bernie Wilson Looking a bit like spacemen in their silver life vests and crash helmets, the sailors aboard Luna Rossa's high-performance catamaran rocketed across San Francisco Bay Wednesday afternoon and took a 2-0 lead over Artemis Racing in the America's Cup challenger semifinals.The Italian crew is halfway toward reaching the Louis Vuitton...

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By Mauro Battocchi   We're lucky to be graced by Pasquale Esposito, an internationally renown Italian tenor who will perform an intimate recital of Italian opera arias and Neapolitan songs in San Francisco on Sunday, October 20th. Mr. Esposito knows California since he studied music at the San Jose University School of Music earlier in his c...

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By Mauro Battocchi   I am honored to introduce a brand new web portal created by the Italian Consulate in San Francisco and the Italian Cultural Institute to promote Italian language education in the consular district of Northern California and the US North-West: www.weloveitalian.org. Together we must promote the teaching of Italian in the...

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Carissimi Colleghi, Vi informo che la quarta riunione annuale dell'AISNA si svolgera' presso l'InterContinental Hotel (Sala Laurel Hill) di San Francisco il 27 Ottobre 2014 dalle ore 16 alle ore 18. L'indirizzo dell'albergo e' 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.   La riunione, come sempre, cade in concomitanza con il Congresso Annuale del...

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If you meet Michelle for the first time, you can't help but be impressed from her beautiful brown eyes as well as her big smile. Michelle is only 8 years old, but the way she introduces herself makes of her a grown up girl.   Michelle was born in San Francisco and, because of the family's Italian origins, she was soon taken to Venice, in Ita...

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by Roberto Natalini Una serata all'insegna del puro divertimento e della tradizione degli spettacoli di varietà all'italiana e musical americani, capace di portare in scena una produzione artistica interculturale unica nel suo genere.    È stata questa la formula vincente del Cabaret Comico, progetto artistico nato dalla collaborazione...

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With the opening of an updated and modernised version of North Beach stalwart Tosca, the people of San Francisco have let out a collective sigh of relief. Tosca, you see, has a bit of a history in the Bay Area - 92 years of it to be precise. This is the place where Hunter S. Thompson once broke an ankle as he jumped from the bar, where Tim Burton c...

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Psalms, songs and canticles of the Italian Baroque A short, delicious concert of Italian music, followed by an equally delectable reception, introducing SFBC's new Artistic Director Magen Solomon. This season's opening performance highlights glorious but infrequently performed works, including Catholic and Jewish psalm settings by Monteverdi and Sa...

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