Review: Loaves of love
If you must live by bread alone, best make it Genova's. A few years shy of its centennial year, the once-predominantly Italian neighborhood around the Stockton bakery, market and deli has changed dramatically over the past 100 years. What haven't changed are the loaves and loaves of bread hot from the oven — French, sourdough, Dutch c...
The New Marco Polo? He’s Right Here
Some say Dionisio Cimarelli is Italy’s finest living sculptor. Some people say he’s the greatest Italian sculptor in China. Trouble is, he’s in neither country. He’s right here in California, visiting and working in studios from Monterey to Los Angeles. Born in the Italian region of Le Marche, he started studying art when he was 14. But he...
Healdsburg’s Lou Colombano, owner of Rainbow Club, dies at 100
Now and again throughout his industrious and agreeable 100 years of life, Lou Colombano would be asked where he attended college. He remarked in an interview earlier this year at his home in Healdsburg, "I always say I went to the College of Geyserville." His education in the verdant valley town of northern Sonoma County encompassed t...
ALFIO LIVE! at the FESTA
We are excited to announce the launch of ALFIO's national PBS show ALFIO In Concert. This TV special includes hits "Caruso," "Granada," "Con Te Partiró" and "My Way" plus many more great Italian and English songs! The show will be airing in Northern California this Saturday, 8/29 on KQED 9 and KQED Life at 6:00 pm and again at midnight!! Click...
Museo ItaloAmericano Spotlights Contemporary Art, History
When most people think of Italian art, their minds jump to old masters like Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo. But the Museo ItaloAmericano at Fort Mason is entirely focused on contemporary works by Italian and Italian-American artists, many of them currently active. The museum is the only true Italian-American museum in the country,...
Appuntamento con l’enologia toscana all’IIC di Los Angeles
Appuntamento con i vini rossi toscani all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles che organizza per il 20 febbraio prossimo alle 18.00 il seminario, con degustazione enologica a seguire, "Villa Le Corti, San Casciano (Florence). Classic Tuscan Reds" tenuto da Giammario Villa, esparto enologo. In programma anche "FamousTuscan Families and Their...
The D.I.V.E. of Los Angeles special guests of Consul General at La Casa all’Italiana
by Silvia Simonetti Among the initiatives celebrating 2013, Year of the Italian Culture in the United States, the residence of Consul General of Italy Giuseppe Perrone has recently become La Casa all'Italiana in Los Angeles, hosting gorgeous design works by Italian renowned artist Gio Ponti. Since June 20 and for a whole week, Pon...
Ferlinghetti to publish his travel journals
There's no letting up for Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The dean of San Francisco booksellers, who co-founded City Lights Bookstore in 1953 and helped launch the Beat movement, published a book of poetry, "Time of Useful Consciousness," in 2012. When he's not at City Lights, Ferlinghetti is at work on his paintings at his art studio in Hunters Point....
Douglas Kenning, a Sicilian Loremaster
Whether you are planning an overseas adventure to the old Kingdom of Trinacria, or simply love all things Sicilian, there is one person who can provide you with all the Sicilian lore you need to know: Professor Douglas Kenning. Douglas Kenning spends half of each year in Sicily, where he runs a tourism company, and the second half in the S...
World Touring Chef Stops Off in San Diego’s Little Italy
World touring Chef Varinia Cappelletti recently stopped in sunny San Diego before heading to her next stop in the chilly parts of Midwestern towns and New York. Commenting on the warm California climate, she dreaded the part of her tour that would take her to the colder states. “The weather here is so beautiful,” said the chef, who is affe...
What's The Best Thing About North Beach?
It's the land of pizza, birthplace of the Beat Generation (and topless dancing), home of classic bars, and historic center of Italian-American life in San Francisco. And though North Beach draws tourist crowds aplenty, it also fosters a distinctly local way of life for its many residents. And so, North Beach locals, we'd like to hear from...
Columbus may share day with indigenous people under Sacramento City Council proposal
By Anita Chabria Christopher Columbus may have to share his October holiday with indigenous people if a resolution before City Council is passed next week. The council will consider a plan to proclaim the second Monday in October – recognized nationally as Columbus Day – as Indigenous Peoples' Day in Sacramento. The 15th-century Italian explo...