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By Mauro Battocchi I would like to applaud the Cristoforo Colombo Club of Marin for their generous support of the Italian Scholarship program at Marin Catholic High School. For over 30 years, this scholarship program has enabled Marin Catholic to attract students to the study of Italian by offering them reduced tuition.   Especially given o...

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When: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 Presentation of ON THE JOURNEY... nel mezzo del cammin, a short film by Maria Luisa Forenza. Followed by a roundtable discussion on the figure of Frank V. de Bellis, his Collection at SFSU and the intellectual legacy of the new Italians in the Bay Area.   An Italian woman and an American girl meet by chance at...

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Not long ago, I ran into a colleague on Green Street between Powell and Columbus. When Rita saw me she asked, “Hey, what are you doing in Chinatown?”   Her question perplexed me. Chinatown? I had just walked out of the Casa Coloniale Italiana Fugazi, San Francisco’s oldest Italian community center. We were standing in front of the former loc...

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A brunch with the artist. Join us for a unique opportunity to meet and brunch with Domenico Monteforte as we celebrate the conclusion of his month-long residency at the IIC.   Renowned food expert Viola Buitoni will design and curate a glorious Tuscan menu to accompany Domenico's paintings for an exclusive experience recreating a full immer...

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di Mauro Battocchi   Quando si associa un Paese con il software, in Silicon Valley si pensa a Israele, all'India, all'Irlanda, sempre più spesso anche al Cile e ai Paesi scandinavi. L'Italia è nota – oltre che per l'arte e il cibo – per la meccanica, la moda e il design. I nostri giovani imprenditori IT che bussano alle porte di San Francisc...

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There's a family that runs its history through the decades serving the town of San Francisco: before Joseph, then his daughter Angela, now her son Joseph. There's a project called Porziuncola Nuova that connected San Francisco to Saint Francis' town, Assisi. There's a square in front of a church in the North Beach, San Francisco's Little Italy, tha...

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SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't the first time an Italian had sailed from New York, around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America, and into the San Francisco Bay. Most Italians in San Francisco have family stories of their great-grandfathers making the same arduous voyage a century and a half ago, and with much less fanfare. When Captain Giovanni...

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Twelve years in action, hundred-sixty students, a staff made of thirty people, two different locations: what La Scuola - Italian International School - represents today for Italians, Americans, and other communities in San Francisco is much more than what these numbers tell.   La Piccola Scuola Italiana, founded in 2001 by some Italian-Ameri...

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A lawyer for the Italian team competing in this summer's America's Cup sailing regatta in San Francisco said on Monday that he is prepared to go to court over last-minute rule changes that came in the wake of a fatal training accident in May.The four teams competing for the cup have been meeting with mediators to reach agreement on 37 safety measur...

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by Mauro Battocchi   The International Champions Cup is coming to San Francisco on July 31st with an anticipated match between Turin's Juventus and Liverpool's Everton. It all goes down at AT&T park starting at 8:00PM. Get your tickets from here or here. Founded in 1897, Juventus FC is the oldest and most successful club in Italy claimi...

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