Italian night at Cibo Ristorante Italiano – a fundaiser for Festa Italia Santa Rosalia Foundation” on Thursday, August 28th
Don't Miss "Italian Night at Cibo Ristorante Italiano - A Fundraiser for Festa Italia Santa Rosalia Foundation " on Thursday, August 28, 2014 at Cibo Ristorante Italiano, 301 Alvarado in Downtown Monterey. Parking is available in the adjacent garage. From 5:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., Cibo will present a 4-course dinner for $24.95 featured below...
San Francisco’s La Scuola: Bilingual Education With an Italian Accent
What's the most beautiful thing about San Francisco? It's a common question. But in this case the person asking it is Matteo Renzi, the prime minister of Italy. He's querying students at La Scuola, an Italian immersion school in San Francisco that has just moved into a permanent new home on Fell Street. Of course Renzi, who is dedicating t...
The Italian Navigator has landed in the new world: a solo exhibition of New York by Rhonda Holberton
Centered on her ongoing investigations into the politics of technology, Rhonda Holberton's multimedia installation, The Italian Navigator has Landed in the New World, imagines the body as seen by the machine on the other side of the screen. Utilizing the austere aesthetics of digital semantics found in image recognition algorithms, the wor...
Saving the Leaning Tower of Pisa - January 22, 2015
Did you ever wonder why the Leaning Tower of Pisa is still standing? Join us at the IIC on January 22, 2015 for a engaging and enlightening lecture by the two leading experts of the Tower's restoration project. Prof. Michele Jamiolkowski and Prof. Carlo Viggiani will talk about the history of the building and the recent efforts and fe...
San Francisco Opera to Premiere Marco Tutino's "Two Women"
San Francisco Opera presents the world premiere of Italian composer Marco Tutino's Two Women (La Ciociara), with a libretto by the composer and Fabio Ceresa, June 13-30 as part of the Company's 2015 Summer Season. Starring Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, conducted by Company Music Director Nicola Luisotti and directed by Francesca...
Forma: Cheese-Centric Italian Arrives in Santa Monica
by Karin E. Baker One of the most eagerly anticipated new restaurants in LA just opened its doors, and I'm happy to note that it lives up to the hype. Forma, located on Santa Monica's Montana Avenue, derives its name from the Italian word "formaggio," the centerpiece ingredient at this new eatery. Forma's a great addition to a nei...
Sons of Italy award 3 EUHS grads
Three local students will have some extra money in the bank for college this fall after a recent announcement. Last week, the Enrico Caruso Lodge #1463, the Visalia chapter of the Sons of Italy in America, announced two Exeter Union High School students will be receiving scholarships, including Kason Clark and Garrett Giovani for Andrew Rizzo....
Building Bridges with Italy: A Good Day for Students and Community at Chapman
by Federico Pacchioni On Sunday, March 5th, over 200 students and community leaders gathered for the Italian Studies Council's conference Culture and Business: An Italian Perspective. The conference brought together innovative business leaders representing film, architecture, design, agriculture and other industries from California and Italy. &nb...
Francis Ford Coppola: The Program You Can’t Refuse
By Catherine Accardi The evening of November 15, 2016 brought the San Francisco Bay Area an opportunity that could not be ignored. The opportunity presented itself when San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, known as the nation's premier public affairs forum, announced they would present Francis Ford Coppola in a rare public appearance, in conversatio...
As Tech Week Closes, Italy in the Cleantech Spotlight
Italy Tech Week highlighted the Italian startup pulse in Silicon Valley and brought productive dialogues to the Bay. As part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US, Italy Tech Week is one of the year's many events that are showcasing Italianità in the Bay. Yesterday I attended the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco and was pleased to find Ita...
Pasolini: A Film Series
by Colpa Press A sampling of the three periods of Italian film master Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975),provocative and audacious thinker, acclaimed essayist and beloved poet. On the heels of a major retrospective at MoMA in New York, and at UCLA and the American Cinemateque in Los Angeles, Luce Cinecittà and Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini/Cinet...
Disruptive Italian Clean Technology To Be Revealed at the CleanTech Forum San Francisco Next Week
By Mauro Battocchi The CleanTech Forum San Francisco 2014, an important networking and lecture event in renewable energy and zero impact technology, kicks off next week (March 11-13) at San Francsico's Fairmont Hotel. This year is the 12th edition of the Forum and over 750 attendants are expected from tier one venture capital and...