San Francisco

È passato già circa un mese dai festeggiamenti in occasione della Festa della Repubblica del 2 giugno scorso, ma nella Baia di San Francisco è ancora viva l’emozione di tutta la comunità italiana. La celebrazione di questa ricorrenza storica, particolarmente …

“I would like a bus similar to my house, but in motion… I want to live inside, not just to travel”. A quote from a random conversation with an American tourist has become the main source of inspiration for Tommaso …

As with most extraordinary projects, they begin with extraordinary people and their inspirational ideas.  The new Piazza St. Francis-The Poets’ Plaza has been Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s vision for decades and that vision will soon be realized in one of San Francisco’s …

A journey around Sicily and among Sicilians. The attachment to the Italian heritage and the passion to tell stories and help understand culture from a new, extraordinary perspective. Director Luca Vullo, from Caltanissetta, has put his abilities, knowledge, and interests …

A life full of curiosity and love for arts and history: during his existence working as architect, poet, and photographer, Alfonso Carrara put all this together in order to become an empathic modernist, who used imagery to honor the truth …

Part I of my Conversations with Lawrence Ferlinghetti appeared in the last, June 25th, 2015, issue of L’Italo Americano.  Below we continue with the man and his lasting legacy.     Mr. Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, N.Y. in 1919, …

After three months of online competitions, Italian bartender Jacopo Rosito, 28, received the highest score among his Italian colleagues and was recently selected as one of the 20 world finalists that will fly to Amsterdam to shake spirits, and create …

What does one talk about when speaking with a legend?  How often does one have the opportunity to speak with an icon of San Francisco’s North Beach and beyond? And, in Italian, which he likes to call “la bella lingua”. …

It’s summer in the city and although two of San Francisco’s Italian themed festivals have come and gone, there’s still more serious festeggiare (celebrations) to come.  On June 13th and 14th we enjoyed the 61st annual North Beach Festival in …

While you surf the net, you will run into many platforms made by Italians for Italians: you won’t find it hard to run into blogs and websites collecting information and stories about Italians moving abroad. But, when we first met …