Little Italy

Once a hallmark of San Francisco and a bustling neighborhood for the local Italian community, North Beach is struggling to hang onto its legacy. The last decades haven't been kind to this quarter as rising rents have forced most of its family-run Italian businesses to bail, leaving commercial real estate…

With the closure of several restaurants serving international cuisines as a result of the pandemic, more consumers have resorted to cooking the foods they know and love at home. Many standard corner grocery stores may not sell ghee or kimchi, but plenty of specialty stores are still open for business…

LATEST UPDATES: Tracking COVID-19 (coronavirus) Rules limit the number of people that can enter the market, and how people interact with the vendors Saturday, April 18, 2020 By Max Rivlin-Nadler Photo by Max Rivlin-Nadler Above: New strict guidelines are in place at Little Italy Farmers Market on Saturday, April 18. At…

After Governor Newsom’s order last Wednesday banning gatherings of more than 250 to slow down transmission of novel Coronavirus, a number of farmers markets across the state were ordered by their city or county authorities to suspend operations. Some were able to negotiate to stay open as essential services. Many…

Skip to comments. Was the Coronavirus Red China’s Pearl Harbor Attack? The Stream ^ | April 17, 2020 | John Zmirak Posted on 04/17/2020 1:59:23 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o My mom was not a model of ethnic sensitivity. Once she made me cringe when a bunch of visiting rural…

Skip to comments. An Immigrant’s Hymn to Texas: My “Little America” The Houston Courant ^ | March 21, 2020 | C. Martinez Posted on 04/15/2020 8:12:59 AM PDT by The Houston Courant One year ago, on March 5, I became an American citizen, just a few miles away from the…

Order wine online in Toronto from restaurants and bars so you can skip the lines at the LCBO. There's no need to go without some good grapes during isolation—in fact, a good bottle or six is more than likely to help pass the time. Here are some restaurants and bars to buy…

Director Francis Ford Coppola has partnered with Fiat to send a message of hope and solidarity to Italy amid the coronavirus pandemic. The filmmaker, whose grandparents were from Naples, narrates a beautiful tribute video featuring the people, culture, and coastal and mountain towns of Italy. Coppola says, in part, “We…

Hotel History: Admiral Fell Inn (80 rooms) Fell's Point was founded in the early 1700s when the Fell Brothers arrived from Lancaster, England. Edward was a shopkeeper and his brother William was a shipbuilder. The old street names in Fell's Point are unchanged: Fell, Thames, Bond, Bank, Caroline, Fleet, Aliceanna,…

African American cashier scanning goods at checkoutBy Anna Almendral, Kaiser Health NewsEmilio Romero, 23, has mixed feelings about losing his job. It’s a major financial setback, but with two previous hospitalizations for pneumonia, a restaurant was not the safest place for the recent college graduate as the COVID-19 pandemic mushroomed.“Working…