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This year's annual Columbus Day Italian American Heritage Celebration in San Mateo County will take place at the Peninsula Italian American Social Club (PIASC) on Saturday, October 8, 2016 starting at 6:00 pm. Queen Isabella and Christopher Columbus will be present during this traditional dinner dance.   This year's Queen will be portrayed b...

This holiday season, the sidewalks in Little Italy will be filled with holiday cheer for the 18th Annual Little Italy Tree Lighting & Christmas Village presented by the Little Italy Association, H.G. Fenton Company, SYSCO, SolarCity and Broadstone Little Italy on Saturday, December 3rd from 4:00p.m. to 8:00p.m. This Little Italy tradition bring...

By Mauro Battocchi   We are deeply honored to have His Excellency Claudio Bisogniero visit San Francisco on February 13 and join us for a luncheon organized by the Italian Athletic Club in North Beach (SFIAC) and by the new online channel for the Italians of Northern California, "La Scintilla."   You are cordially invited to be with u...

Join Ruta Lee with Anna Maria Alberghetti and The Thalians, in concert with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles for a Preview and Fundraiser Exhibition by artist Mario Canali. Benefits The Thalians' Operation Mend, at UCLA mental health services for our Wounded Warriors; U.S. military personnel injured while serving in Iraq and Afgha...

Join us for our Spring Fling Gala supporting the educational and cultural programs sponsored by the Italian American Heritage Foundation (IAHF).Saturday, April 11, 2015 - IAHF Cultural Center  - 425 No. 4th St., San JoseSocial 6 p.m. Dinner 7 p.m. Alfie Dreifuss and his MVP Show BandDancing 8:00 - 11:00 p.m.$75.00 per person, tables...

by Valerio Viale   Fausto Roma (Ceccano, 1955), is a rare example of painter, sculptor and visual artist, who despite extensive travels along the years, has decided to live in his hometown, not far from Frosinone, capital of the geographical region of Ciociaria.   Fausto Roma. On the Traces of Jazz, solo exhibition currently on displa...

by Jim Dessicino What does it mean to adopt a new homeland, language and way of life? What kind of conditions make someone abandon their country, moving sometimes across oceans without prospects, without papers? What land will that immigrant's children and grandchildren feel to be their own? These are questions that "Without Papers" seeks to answe...

Dal 27 al 30 settembre la XI edizione della Festa of San Gennaro offrirà ancora una volta tre giorni di intrattenimento per i cittadini di Los Angeles e per la comunità italiana lì residente. Il Festival folkloristico dedicato al Santo partenopeo, che sarà presentato da Jimmy Kimmel e Adam Carolla, è organizzato dalla San Gennaro Foundation di Los...

The upcoming 56th San Francisco International Film Festival will feature a wide selection of diverse and innovative cinema from all over the world to the Bay Area audience. The SFIFF is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. The Festival will run from April 25 to May 9 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, the Castro Theatre and New People C...

By Elizabeth Vasile Genius Loci is a Latin term, meaning spirit of place. Geographers, historians, and other scholars use it to refer to that element, or quality, or founding principle, that makes a place uniquely itself, that pervades or gives rise to, as a spirit would, all that takes place in an area. One might think of it as a geographic genom...

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...

The efforts to establish a bona fide Little Italy neighborhood in San Jose have leaped a major hurdle. All one-zillion of the required permits to construct a gateway arch on Julian Street in front of Paesano Ristorante are now signed off.   This is not as simple as it sounds because the intersection in question—North Almaden Avenue and Julia...