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As Italians, we brought to the U.S. many customs and traditions, and we keep honoring them as our ancestors used to do. But do we know where those traditions come from? Some of them are quite new, while some others …

What is one the most widely used document in the Italian language in our good old USA? No, it is not a collection of Neapolitan song lyrics or the Constitution of the Italian Republic or the memoires of Giuseppe Garibaldi, …

Just about everyone has a favorite toy they remember from their childhood, be it a backyard tree swing, an old rag doll, or that homemade slingshot that dangled precariously from a hip pocket. For me, it was an old, beat-up …

As part of “Italy Tech Week” that has just successfully taken place in the Bay Area, acclaimed Italian journalist and writer Federico Rampini has come back to San Francisco to present his latest book “Non ci possiamo più mermettere uno …

Almeno una volta all’anno, Federico Rampini viene invitato nella Bay Area come ospite speciale in importanti conferenze universitarie, o a presentare i sui libri spesso incentrati su un’attenta analisi della società americana e italiana, come nei due volumi “San Francisco-Milano”. …

Los Angeles’ little Italy contained many businesses whose popularity stretched beyond the Italian community itself, such as Giacchino’s Bakery, which was located on North Broadway and was famous for their rum cakes, and Dario’s, a popular eatery where downtown businessmen rubbed …

The main purpose of this article is to make the people of California, USA aware of the existence of another California, in Tuscany, Italy. “Why” and “when” the new California in Italy was founded and “who” named it La California, …

Less than a mile from the geographic center of The City, in an area that was once comprised of dirt roads and dairy farms, the Eureka Valley is a typical San Francisco neighborhood displaying an eclectic mix of old and …

Sarà un Conclave breve, ha sentenziato padre Lombardi, il portavoce della sala stampa vaticana. Detto da uno come lui, abituato a intuire i venti della Curia, la previsione dovrebbe essere rispettata. Probabilmente quando leggerete questo numero de L’Italo-Americano il successore …

Dear Readers, A March minestrone is served:   An Albanian society meeting hall in Los Angeles was once the scene of many joyous Italian wedding receptions, dances and happy memories for Signor A.C. who wondered whatever happened to the “Ghe …