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by Mark Anderson   The are so many dreams going on at brand-new Il Tegamino (250-5790) it feels a little bit like Inception, with owner-operator Giuseppe Panzuto playingLeonardo DiCaprio, jumping from dream to dream, cellar to dining room, kitchen to patio. Only instead of layers of memory and surreality, it's layers of pasta in the handmade...

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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Lincoln Park | 100 34th Avenue - San Francisco, CA 94121 - January 9, 2016 - 12:00pm   Claudio Santome completed training as music teacher in Buenos Aires with a masters from the Teatro Colón where he also sung Giuseppe Verdi's Aida. After emigrating to the US in 1997, he performed Ariel Ra...

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For the second consecutive year, the long-awaited "Battle of the Chefs" took place in the heart of North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco, the center of Italian culinary heritage. The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club was the host of this one-of-a-kind night, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, represented by Director Paolo...

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When I say 'clowns,' what do you think of? Big red noses? Comically over-sized shoes? Balloon animals and small cars with enough trunk space to make Mary Poppins' duffel bag look like a coin purse?   Ruggero Leoncavallo's world-famous opera "Pagliacci" paints a very different image of clowns that is in stark contrast to the birthday party en...

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Building Bridges Art Foundation (BBAF), Bice Bugatti Club and The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) presentano le opere di Franco Marrocco, attuale direttore dell'Accademia di Brera, al BERGAMOT STATION ART CENTER SMMOA di Santa Monica (fino al 7 aprile).   Marrocco è un figlio del Sud: nasce a Caserta nel 1956 a Rocca d'Evandro e compie i su...

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SUNDAY, APRIL 27 - 4:00 p.m. doors open - 5:00 p.m. performance - 6:30 p.m. dinner Singing the mountain music of the Italian Alps. The choir is from Trentino, Tione di Trento, Italy. A special and rare experience. This will be their only performance in the Santa Clara Valley. Come early (4:00) and enjoy a glass of wine at our NEW pr...

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Penelope, "art name" of Chiara Cocchi, has been invited by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco for a solo exhibition in its gallery. After several shows in Miami (Florida), Sarasota (Florida), and Italy, the artist has conceived and assembled a new exhibition entitled We are All Made of Stardust, which will be on view from January 15 un...

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by Serena Perfetto   Audrey Hepburn. Gregory Peck. Rome. A Vespa. Nobody can forget the funny and entertaining scene of one of Italian most popular movies, Vacanze Romane, and this is mainly because the characters, the location, the style perfectly represented Italy and the Italians.   When thinking about lifestyle, the green Vespa dr...

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Il movimento "INSIEME per gli italiani" continua in questi giorni a rendere noti i propri rappresentanti in vista delle elezioni politiche del prossimo anno. Quest'oggi è la volta dei rappresentanti in Centro e Nord America. In particolare questi i nomi scelti nella Pacific Coast Region, che si concentrano per la verità tutti in California: Giusep...

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Who would have guessed that at least 454 Italian Americans have played baseball in the majorssince 1897? The San Francisco Bay Area produced many of baseball's pioneers and originated thesandlot playing field in the 1860s. In fact, the earliest West Coast games were played downtownon a sandlot where San Francisco City Hall stands today–ne...

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