Community

After the success of Matteo Garrone’s last film, Reality, Santa Barbara dedicates 3 nights to one of the most controversial yet admired Italian directors, with a retrospective organized by UCSB Professor Anna Brusutti and co-sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center and …

In the mid-1400s, Florence was a main destination for artists, goldsmiths, silversmiths and engravers. The presence of the Medici family, committed to protect artists and to commission precious objects, gathered talents from all over Italy and the rest of Europe. …

  “It was more than music.” This is the slogan of the campaign launched by Hot Italian, a modern Italian-American joint venture Pizzeria in Sacramento, in collaboration with the Tower Records Project.   The project was established to fund the …

The evening of Saturday, April 13, 2013 the San Francisco Chapter of the Associazione Liguri nel Mondo celebrated, at the Basque Cultural Center of South San Francisco, its twenty-seventh (27 th) annual Festa dei Fiori.    The event was emceed …

Last week in The City, the institutional representatives of four prominent cultural powers of Europe came together to organize a one-of-a-kind event:  “European Language Fair: A Taste of Europe.”   Thanks to the partnership of The Alliance Francaise, the Goethe …

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 …

Visitors and residents strolling and rolling north along India street in Little Italy may have found a good reason to cross the street at Hawthorne instead of the customary left turn at the corner after Mona Lisa.     Continue …

Sono arrivati alla Chiesa Italiana di San Pietro da vicino e da lontano, dalla città e dalla contea. Ma tutti con fede ardente e religiosità e moltissimi con gli occhi pieni di commozione. La loro provenienza e nazionalità non importava. …

Marche, Calabria, Veneto; three of the regions of Italy introduced themselves to Californian tour operators and potential travelers, bringing a little of their atmosphere to Los Angeles.   Marche and Calabria were the special guests of this year’s edition of …

Benvenuto San Diego e ben tornato!  Welcome San Diego and welcome back to the L’Italo-Americano Italian Community section where we are particularly excited to have your dedicated section back in print.    Community is a vital and important value to …