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A special performance by the Italian Surf Academy, who will present The American Dream: an audio-visual journey into the movie culture of 1960s Italy! Featuring music from Spaghetti western, noir and crime movies originally composed by Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Carlo Rustichelli, Riz Ortolani, Piero Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli, and more. &nbs...

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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...

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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...

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by Chris Macias   But of course pizza proliferates in Davis, home of the Aggies and stamping grounds for more than 35,000 students at the University of California, Davis – a population sustained by a quick slice after class or a pie in the dorms to satiate those Friday night munchies.   Right about now, the pizza competition in Davi...

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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...

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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...

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by Alessandra Matroianni   Sculptors have been producing amazing artworks for millennia. We stare at them and admire the beauty of the shapes, feel the passion and the energy they emanate. But what's behind their creation?   "Through the Eyes of the Sculptor", written and produced by Gina Minervini, tries to follow and reconstruct the...

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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...

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By Alex Hochman At 6 p.m. on a recent freezing cold Tuesday in perhaps The City's foggiest neighborhood, one restaurant was already quoting a 45-minute wait and the buzz inside was palpable.   An extraverted, well-dressed host with a thick Italian accent greeted patrons with shouts of "buono sera!" that sounded so genuine one might think he...

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Little Italy has a lot of momentum with the opening of Bel Bacio Italian Café, the Real Estate purchase of two properties and land for an Italian Cultural Center, the remodel and Sale of two Historic Homes as Residential to two families (Welcome De Bernardo Family), and the groundbreaking of the Arch in January.   We have two Historic homes...

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