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Tis the season to be jolly – and extraordinarily busy!  In between shopping, decorating and feasting, there are multitudes of holiday events to attend.   Italy in December is a holiday evening of dining, dancing and merriment that has a …

“When my friends at Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Cineteca di Bologna, and Dolce&Gabbana said they wanted to restore Cinema Paradiso, I was incredulous: ‘Thank you, but the film has just been released, why would you restore it?’” Twenty-six years have passed …

There was a time when the Italian film industry was an example of what movies should look like, a time when Cinecittà made the history of world cinema. Last year, the celebrations for Paolo Sorrentino’s Academy Award-winning The Great Beauty …

“If this is the price you have to pay, it’s not as bad as it looks, it’s a very small price”: Edoardo Ponti, son of actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti, has never been scared by the figlio d’arte …

From Sicily to Los Angeles, Italian actress Romina Caruana (Pots&Lids, Don Matteo, Turbo) is writing a new page of both her career and personal life experience. The English version of her first book The Dance of Souls has been recently …

Moving to a new country can be an exciting adventure, particularly challenging if that place is the Silicon Valley. While seeing the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the favorite destinations, very few migrants want to give up on …

Nel corso del mese appena trascorso San Francisco è stata il palcoscenico di molti eventi interessanti legati alla promozione della lingua italiana.   Fra questi, ha riscosso un grande successo lo spettacolo “ABC l’Italiano si impara così”, messo in scena …

Before San Francisco had bat-wielding orange and black Giants roaming the fields, baseball fields that is, Seals sauntered around our local stadiums, including Seals Stadium. Exhilarated after the recent Giants’ World Series win, I pondered the bay area’s admirable baseball …

“Although I have been busy writing about traveling around the globe, I have been getting arrangements to put together an Italian Gig Book,” said piano player Tony Di Bona. He, and vocalist wife Giovanna, run Roman Holiday Music. “We do …

It’s 8:59 am on a dank, drizzly Sunday morning. The spritely painted KBOO building in southeast Portland brightens up the gray day. Inside, the cramped studio is abuzz with activity: microphones are checked; earphones are clamped upon unsuspecting heads; CDs …