San Diego

As the old adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words – whether it has its own story to tell you or you create a story for it yourself. Photographs have a special way of conveying messages in a …

Frank Mangio loves his job.  First of all, he describes his office as a “cozy wine bar,” complete with overstuffed furniture, walls covered with photographs and several coolers housing more than one hundred bottles of wine. Not a bad place …

When Antonio Bandini was 15 years old, he enrolled in a watercolor painting class in his hometown of Livorno, Italy. One day his teacher approached him and expressed a desire to enter one of his paintings in an art competition …

This young woman wasn’t anything special. In fact, she was the opposite of extraordinary in every way.   Following her parents’ divorce when she was one month old, she moved from Newport News, Virginia to Yonkers, New York with her …

The first written record of Lacrosse dates back to the 1636 when a French Jesuit priest by the name of Jean de Brebeuf observed a group of Huron Indians playing a sport called stickball in the St. Lawrence Valley.   …

Passionate.  If someone had to describe Italians in one word, that would be it. Italians are passionate. Whether it’s about food or wine or art or life itself, Italians pour passion into the things they love and that passion shines …

While the rest of the country struggles with a seemingly relentless series of winter storms, snow and ice, San Diego finally experienced its own version of winter this past weekend. Gusts of wind and heavy – by San Diego standards …

When one hears of great cycling races, the first name that comes to mind is France’s Tour de France, the legendary cycling race launched in 1903 that lasts 23 days and covers approximately 2,000 miles. What may be a little-known …

Whether you’re celebrating that new big promotion at work or the simple fact that you made it through the day and survived rush-hour, gridlock traffic, there are few things more rewarding than a nice glass of wine. For Italians, wine …

Every year for the last three decades – during the last weekend of April – Mission Federal ArtWalk has attracted artists from across the nation to showcase their art, be it visual or performing, occupying 17 blocks in San Diego’s …