The Little Italy Association is honored to have Danny Moceri, of Filippi's Pizza Grotto, and the last Honorary Little Italy Mayor, Luke Vinci, present the Famous Fantastic Fabulous Flip-Off with Filippi's...for FUN! Pizza Tossing Competition. Sunday, october 9th. Space is limited, so be sure to get you Pizza Tossing Entry Form in now! Click he...

by Robert Gallo   Abraham Lincoln once told of an Old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams," indicating that doing so could be risky.   Ignoring this sage advice, Italian Photographer, Marcello Moccia, born and raised in Naples, Italy, "one of the most beautiful cities in...

by Candice Woo   One of San Diego's founding restaurant families — the Busalacchis — whose Busalacchi Restaurants stable includes India Street's Cafe Zucchero, is gearing up to refresh one of its other Little Italy restaurants.   Po Pazzo Bar and Grille, which first opened in 2004 as a swanky old school chophouse that specialized in I...

by Cameron Salce After moving 6,000 miles away from home in Italy, it took only one visit to Southern California for senior Riccardo Michelini to realize that San Diego State was the right choice to start his collegiate golf career in 2012. It was a dream scenario.   "SDSU was my first visit and even though I was in contact with other...

The movie documents the experience of Italian immigrants in California, which was markedly different from that of their compatriots elsewhere in the United States. Through stories set in seven Italian communities throughout California, this film examines how economic and social mobility became possible for many Italians in the Golden State.  ...

It was a breathtaking sight for U.S. investigators involved in the hunt for stolen Italian cultural artifacts more than 1,900 years old. Some of the sought-after antiquities lay swaddled in blankets on the floor of a Del Mar, Calif., garage. They were turned over to authorities by the third wife of late multimillionaire Allen E. Paulson, whose...

From New York to San Diego, America cast off the inhibitions of an earlier era and celebrated prosperity, movies, the automobile, and jazz. Then - January 16, 1920 – The 18th Amendment was signed into law and America went DRY! It was Prohibition!   Thirsty Americans sought relief ... and the Speakeasy was born! There has never been a time l...

by Convivio SocietyConvivio has made great progress in our preservation efforts with the development of the digital archives and our partnership with UCSD to house the physical repository. But much more work needs to be done in collecting and cataloging artifacts from San Diego's Italian community. Learn more about our heritage-preservation wo...

Prosegue l'attività formativa e di presentazione delle attività di ICoN nel mondo. Nel corso di novembre la dottoressa Nadia Gatto, responsabile dei Corsi di Lingua del Consorzio, sarà in Texas e sulla West Coast statunitense per due iniziative.   A Houston è in calendario un corso di formazione per insegnanti, offerto dal Ministero degli Af...

by Italian Cultural Center of San Diego   The cast of Accura Teatro is coming to San Diego's Fringe Festival to present the award-winning show Taddrarite (Bats). We will be hosting the cast at the ICC for an aperitivo with the viewing of the trailer, a sketch from the show and an open Q&A session with the actresses and the publ...