November
November 22, 2008
The Other Rocky Movie
Paul Newman in the Rocky Graziano story, "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
Paul Newman’s turn as an Italian American boxer leaves me wondering where all those gum machines went.
November 5, 2008
Blogging Obama
Laura E. Ruberto
Drawing of Barack Obama, by this blogger's five year old son
Passing impressions from California, written at midnight on Election Night.
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- The Gate on the “Golden Gate”
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- “The Mediterranean Came to Flavor My Existence”: Harry Bertoia’s Midcentury Italian American Aesthetic
- Revisiting Southern Italy through the Lens of a Future Anthropologist
- Uncredited Extras: Cinecittà’s Refugees and the Italian American Who Filmed Them
- Breastfeeding Breasts!
- I’ll Have Some Pancetta with My Mob Reference, Please
- The Case of the Missing Fasanella Painting
- The Eternal City of Champions
- An Italian Topography within a California Cemetery
- Among Roman Ruins, the Italian Communist Party’s School
- Californians Sell Little Italy, One Crate at a Time
- Italian American Romance in the Era Before Roe v. Wade
- Mobsters in Sin City
- Radical Espresso: Mario Savio and Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement
- Becoming Italian American: POWs and National Identity
- “And so we left leaving Italy and all of my dear ones”
- Italian Gambling Site and the US Presidential Election
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