COM.IT.ES Elections Will Be Held April 17th, 2015
Cari concittadini,The Italian Parliament has decided to give you the opportunity to elect the new Committee of Italians Abroad (COM.IT.ES) for the consular jurisdiction of San Francisco on April 17th, 2015. The election called on December 19th, 2014 was cancelled because no list of candidates had met the legal requirements. Law n. 190 of December...
Job Announcement: VAP of Italian
Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures at the University of San Diego (http://www.sandiego.edu/cas/languages/). Job Announcement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian (Position starting in January 2016 for Spring Semester) We invite applications for a non-tenure-track position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Ita...
HFF secures $11.6 million refinancing for The Q in San Diego’s Little Italy neighborhood
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. (HFF) announced that it has secured an $11.6 million refinancing for The Q, a seven-story, 36,794-square-foot, mixed-use residential and retail development in downtown San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood. HFF worked on behalf of the borrower and developer, Jonathan Segal FAIA & Development Company, in a...
Regional wines: Piemonte Wine Tasting, February 10
Wednesday, February 10, 2016. 6 to 8 PM. Italian Cultural Institute - 1023 Hilgard Avenue - LA 90024. Fees: $45 ($40 for IIC & NASA members). To register please call 310-824-7408. or email to [email protected] Led by Diego Meraviglia, Gold-Pin Pro Sommelier, Master Taster, North American S...
Mediterranean-style Casa Pellegrino hotel opens in Hollywood
A taste of the Mediterranean has come to Hollywood. The Pellegrino family has opened the 13-room Casa Pellegrino Boutique Hotel at 2007 N. Ocean Drive after nearly two years of renovations. The work built in architecture and decor inspired by the owners' Italian ancestry and European roots. Each room displays its own style influenced...
Ten Years of Italians In The BAIA of SF
The year was 2005. Around the start of the web 2.0 era. LinkedIn just went from less than 100,000 to 1M members. Business networking was limited to Ivy League business school alumni associations, vendors driven tech gatherings, industry associations, and the classic clubs: from your dad's Rotary to exclusive "co-member nominated" business councils....
New Little Italy Board Members
Little Italy is pleased to announce that we have added Marco Zecchin as Treasurer to the Little Italy San Jose Board of Directors. Marco Zecchin has been our resident Photographer and a dedicated volunteer for the past three years. Marco is also the owner of the Image Center in Los Gatos and is involved in numerous charitable organizations througho...
Year of Italian Culture Marches On in the Bay
With a hearty buona sera! Mayor Ed Lee had welcomed the 2013 Year of Italian Culture to the Bay Area on December 12th, 2012 at San Francisco City Hall. Thus far, the Year has offered us exciting and insightful events from Giovanni Soldini and Team Maserati's record-breaking arrival in San Francisco, Italian Innovation Day and Italy at the Cleantech...
Italy’s Viola di Grado comes to San Francisco’s Litquake
by Mauro Battocchi San Francisco's annual literary festival Litquake is gearing up for a week of panels, cross-media events and literary readings this October 11th to 19th in myriad locations around the Bay. For over a decade, Litquake has brought thousands of author appearances for an audience of over 100,000. What a great honor that risi...
Trattoria Neapolis: The south of Italy on South Lake in Pasadena
A so-called destination restaurant is an unfamiliar concept to those of us living in the culinary districts of Los Angeles. The thought of vehicular travel to some distant locale for dinner is a foreign notion, something reserved for chain restaurant-dining suburbanites. But the fact of the matter is that we all journey to other parts of town to v...
Renaissance festival a trip to 16th century Tuscany
by Ken R. Wells Lords and ladies, pirates and peasants, wizards and wenches, beer and bosoms could all be found at the sixth annual Lake Renaissance Festival held Saturday and Sunday on the outdoor grounds of Tuscan Village at Terrill Cellars Winery. The festival recreated a Tuscany, Italy, seaport village of the 16th century when...
Michelangelo and the Medici
"Michelangelo Buonarroti" and "the Medici" are usually the first two names that come to mind when we recall the heroic figures of the Italian Renaissance—Michelangelo as a supremely gifted sculptor, painter, architect and poet, the Medici as an inspired family of patrons and collectors. They were all Florentines, to be sure. But in real te...