LIFE & PEOPLE

“My Italian origins have never been a source of particular discomfort, except for the time when, as a child, my father asked me to buy The Progresso the Italian newspaper of the time. It was raining hard and I slipped …

On Saturday February 6th, 2016 the Italian wine world lost a legend.  Giacomo Tachis, a legendary enologist and consultant to many Italian wineries throughout Italy, passed away in his hometown of San Casciano in the Val di Pesa of Tuscany …

The smell of freshly baked bread is arguably one of the world’s most sublime aromas. A British study last year found that the smell of baking bread topped the list of all-time favorite scents, beating out sizzling bacon, freshly mowed …

Joe Lo Truglio is one of those actors that the mainstream audience knows they have seen before but can hardly remember the name; yet in the comedy world he is very well known and respected. He has a memorable face, …

Imagine a superior form of extraterrestrial life, endowed with a higher intelligence, landing on the moon’s surface. The alien picks up a human artefact, the size of half a coke can, and opens it: inside, it’s contained the historic milestones …

It took us 100 years to prove all of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and the success comes as a result of the LIGO-Virgo international collaboration that sees both Italy and the U.S as home bases to the Nobel-Prize-quality discovery. …

Perhaps some people believe history is a thing of the past. Think again.  It is all around you. You look at it every day and likely even admire it.  Examples are the many Italian cultural sites of San Francisco’s North …

For one week, the Bay Area and the Genoese community had the chance to meet and know Marco Doria, who has been serving as Mayor of Genoa since 2012. Therefore, on the evening of February 9, they also have learnt …

The whole world knows the feelings that come from the symphonies of his music and the images that they evoke, images associated with films (more than 60) that have won awards and for which the same music was composed and …

The New York Times has proclaimed Italian-American comedian/ director/producer Frank Ferrante (Los Angeles, April 26, 1963) as “the greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx’s material.” So, don’t be surprised if his current show, An Evening with Groucho, is a regular …