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Tom Ammiano, Standup Politician

George De Stefano

At 73, the "gay Vito Marcantonio" isn't ready to retire

Making in Italy-Making in USA

Giulia Madron

In San Francisco and the Bay Area for the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the US, Fondazione Giannino Bassetti presents the culture, beauty and innovation of ‘Made in Italy’...

The Church (re)Turns Right... San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone...Southern-Italian Americana Implications

Tom Verso

For two of their three thousand year history, the cultural bedrock and core values for the people South of Rome was the Catholic Church. Waves of conquers came and went changing...

Vince Guaraldi--“the sound of Yuletide on these shores”

Laura E. Ruberto

Some Italian-American notes about the man behind the music of Charlie Brown’s Christmas.

A Tourist Visits Italian in California

Joey Skee

In recognition of co-blogger, Laura Ruberto, who intelligently expounds on West Coast iterations of Italian America, I offer my touristic encounter with things Italian in the...

Re-reading Diane Di Prima, in Honor of International Women's Day

Laura E. Ruberto

San Francisco’s Current Poet Laureate, Diane Di Prima, moves Italian American Identity Above, Below, and Beyond.

The Rocks of San Francisco: Authenticity, Ethnic Neighborhoods, and Going Blog Crazy

Laura E. Ruberto

Ethnic construction and sacred place, the replica of the Porziuncola Chapel in San Francisco’s Italian neighborhood.

Luciano Chessa’s Musical Inventions

Laura E. Ruberto

Sardinia, San Francisco, the traditional, the avant-garde: everything finds a home in Luciano Chessa's music.

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