Author Marianna Gatto likens tracing the history of Italians in Los Angeles to that of “chasing ghosts,” since much of the history hasn’t been preserved
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Thinking about next year’s holiday cards, I turn to the leftist artists, Tina Modotti and Pietro di Donato.
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Fruit and Vegetable Crate Labels in California and the Italian Americans They Created
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Art & CultureOctober 16-November 7. The San Diego Italian Film Festival (SDIFF) has an ambitious goal: To make San Diego a high spot for Italian culture. They show great, award-winning, recent Italian movies, all with interesting stories of relationships, love, hate, work, food, identity, all the passions of life. Two of the SDIFF founders, Roberto Ruocco and Victor Laruccia, tell i-Italy how they started and where they are headed.
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Looking at the undercurrents of Italian migrant identity in Niki de Sainte Phalle’s Giardino dei Tarocchi.
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Reading Valenti Angelo’s “Golden Gate” to my five-year old son.
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A Brief Visit to California’s Subterranean Marvel, Baldassare Forestiere’s “Underground Gardens.”
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Two national holidays, la Festa della Repubblica and Memorial Day, bring up the question of what it means to belong.
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Weaving together oral stories from California's Italian American farmers in the Central Valley.
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A look at Oakland's Italian American neighborhood and what it might tell us about Nutley, New Jersey.
