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C'è già aria di Pasqua al 40esimo Fancy Food di San Francisco. L'evento, che punta i riflettori sul mondo del cibo, ha appena chiuso i battenti con numeri in crescita: 20 mila visitatori, 1500 espositori. Quindici paesi ospiti del padiglione internazionale con una particolare attenzione all'Italia, in vista dell'Expo che si inaugurerà a Maggio. No...

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by Andrew Bagley   Known in Italy as La Gioconda, which means "the happy one", Leonardo da Vinci's most famously acclaimed portrait is the Mona Lisa. Interestingly, Mona is a contraction of the formal form Madonna, the equivalent to Madam or My Lady in English. While Leonardo's original masterpiece hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris, y...

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What's the most beautiful thing about San Francisco? It's a common question. But in this case the person asking it is Matteo Renzi, the prime minister of Italy. He's querying students at La Scuola, an Italian immersion school in San Francisco that has just moved into a permanent new home on Fell Street.   Of course Renzi, who is dedicating t...

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San Francisco Opera presents the world premiere of Italian composer Marco Tutino's Two Women (La Ciociara), with a libretto by the composer and Fabio Ceresa, June 13-30 as part of the Company's 2015 Summer Season.   Starring Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci, conducted by Company Music Director Nicola Luisotti and directed by Francesca...

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Italy Tech Week highlighted the Italian startup pulse in Silicon Valley and brought productive dialogues to the Bay. As part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US, Italy Tech Week is one of the year's many events that are showcasing Italianità in the Bay. Yesterday I attended the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco and was pleased to find Ita...

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Alto Adige, one of Italy's smallest wine-producing regions, is also one of the country's most diverse. Education is vital to help spread awareness and understanding of these multi-faceted wines. Following the success of the 2012 Master Class series hosted by Master Sommelier, Laura Maniec, Alto Adige Wines has re-launched an educational initiative...

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by Colpa Press   A sampling of the three periods of Italian film master Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975),provocative and audacious thinker, acclaimed essayist and beloved poet. On the heels of a major retrospective at MoMA in New York, and at UCLA and the American Cinemateque in Los Angeles, Luce Cinecittà and Fondo Pier Paolo Pasolini/Cinet...

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By Mauro Battocchi   The CleanTech Forum San Francisco 2014, an important networking and lecture event in renewable energy and zero impact technology, kicks off next week (March 11-13) at San Francsico's Fairmont Hotel.   This year is the 12th edition of the Forum and over 750 attendants are expected from tier one venture capital and...

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Liga in America. L'Italia non basta a Luciano Ligabue. Dopo aver infiammato la penisola con il suo Mondovisione Tour, di cui sono state annunciate recentemente altre tre date (il 6 settembre a Torino, il 13 a Bologna e il 20 a Bari), il rocker di Correggio si prepara per la prima volta a sbarcare oltreoceano, con una mini-tournée fatta di cinque co...

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Making an Italian coffee is considered an art. But what about having a real espresso and enjoying that moment as most Italians do?   While the ability of preparing a good coffee has been improving since Italians came to America, the Italian way of having away coffee has never become a real trend.   Read more   Fonte: L'italo-Am...

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