2008
October 18, 2008
Proverbial Questions, American Elections
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Only in America?
Americans might find inspiration in a Neapolitan proverb, and Italians might find inspiration in America.
September 26, 2008
A Mother's Tongue
Don't be a mooshamoosh -- share those southern Italian dialect words!
August 30, 2008
Days of Wine and Fatalism
Days and Clouds press photo
A couple in the Italian film "Days and Clouds" tries to restart their lives after the husband loses his job.
From Carla Bruni's words to recent Italian films -- a summer revealing Italy's fatalistic streak.
June 18, 2008
The Seven Percent Solution?
Spike Lee and John Turturro in "Do the Right Thing"
DNA testing adds new complexities to the question about physical similarities between African-Americans and Italian-Americans.
June 11, 2008
Barack Obama Mamma
Photo by Marco From Houston, Flickr.com
Can the Old World embrace the New?
My eighty-six-year-old Italian-American mother enthusiastically supports Barack Obama. Could a majority of Italian-Americans back the African-American presumptive Democratic...
March 27, 2008
Losing (and gaining) my ethnicity
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Fainting Magdalene (after the lost Caravaggio painting) /Fainting Parliament
The Italian elections make me wish (temporarily, at least) for English roots
February 20, 2008
Carla Bruni, Old World Italian
Bharat Sikka/Naive Records
Carla Bruni
Who knew that former supermodel and the new First Lady of France was also an Old World Italian?
February 6, 2008
The Original Slow Foodies
http://www.seedfest.co.uk/seeds/artichoke
The Slow Food movement wishes "to counteract fast food and fast life."
The mission of the Slow Food movement hits home for me -- probably because its goals seem similar to the life that my grandparents led.
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