Photo Exhibit in Stockton / Tales from an Italian Kitchen


Pulitzer Prize-Winning Images in Stockton: The largest display of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever shown in the United States will open on Sunday, April 3 at The Haggin Museum – the only California venue. This special exhibition, entitled "CAPTURE THE MOMENT: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs," will feature 128 award-winning images from 1942 through the most recent awards in 2004. This is one of the most extensive and dramatic traveling displays ever mounted by the museum.

Cyma Rubin, the exhibition’s curator, is host Jeffrey Callison's guest.

The photo at left, entitled "Faith And Confidence," was taken in 1958 by William C. Beal, and is courtesy of Scripps Howard News Service.  More images from the exhibit appear below.

Tales from America's Oldest Italian Restaurant:  Over 100 Years in an Italian Kitchen is a lively tale of cookery and passion illuminating the lives of immigrant families who created the Fior d'Italia, America's oldest Italian restaurant. The book chronicles the shenanigans of operating a San Francisco Italian restaurant during Prohibition, the complexities of serving an upstairs brothel and the requirements of pleasing VIPs such as Richard M. Nixon and Luciano Pavarotti. It offers a tapestry of American history, witnessed by Italian-American immigrants in San Francisco from the Gold Rush through the 1906 Earthquake and Fire and World War II to the 21st century.

The author, Francine Brevetti, joins Jeffrey.

Painted Lady Butterflies on the Wing:  Millions of painted lady butterflies invaded central California airspace Monday as a massive migration from the desert began to hit its stride. The insects are on their way from their winter grounds on the Mexican border to the Central Valley and foothills, where they will breed.

Arthur Shapiro, Professor of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis and an authority on butterflies, briefs Jeffrey on this unusual invasion.

 
Wednesday, March 30, 2005