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On May 31, 2016 the San Francisco Bay Area’s Italian community celebrated Italy’s Republic Day with an elegant event at San Francisco’s St. Francis Yacht Club.   The event’s host was our very own San Francisco Italian Consul General, Mauro …

As a child, Pat (Pasquale) Senatore rebelled against a future, already written by his father, who wanted him to become the new violin virtuoso. Luckily for all of us, he followed his bent for plucking the strings instead of drawing …

A wholesale bakery connected to a restaurant, the “Mead Restaurant and Bakery” built around 1910. A wall was hiding a coal-oven that measured about 15′ wide and 15 deep whose façade was covered by its original subway tiles, full of …

On June 2nd, 1946, Italians expressed their preference, through the institutional referendum held by universal suffrage. Republic won over Monarchy, with about two million differential in the ballots. 70 years later, at the Petersen Automotive Museum (along the so-called “Museum …

Paola Maria Savoia, native of Genoa (capital of Liguria, northwestern region of Italy), directly descends from the illegitimate branch of the aristocratic Savoia lineage, which was Italy’s former Royal Family (until the introduction of the republic in 1946). About five …

The workshop at Brian’s Plumbing Works may seem like a jumble of faucets, fixtures, old ceramic sinks, and tools, but there is careful organization here. Tools are arranged at their stations. Under the workbench, there are cubbies full of tool …

Jojo Capece is an artist and the author of three books, All Roads Lead to Rome (2011), Bella Figura (2013) and most recently, Portofino Souvenir (2015).  Titles like these prompted L’Italo-Americano to interview Capece about her work as an author, …

Diane Favro, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, as well as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of the Arts and Architecture, is one of the most prominent experts in Ancient Roman architecture. Don’t tell her …

From a 1926 Model T to an ice-blue 1951 Studebaker to the Flintmobile made for the 1994 Flintstones movie, all sorts of automotive rarities can be found at the LeMay-America’s Car Museum in Tacoma, Wash. The collection of 255 vehicles …

“I can move! I can talk! I can walk!” : whoever has a passion for fairy tales must know the story this quote belongs to. Not sure yet? Here another hint: “When he lies his nose gets big.” Yes, you …