Occhio contro occhio
February 18, 2009
What’s his name?! What’s his name?!
True Love (1989), Nancy Savoca, dir.
Italian-American naming traditions of abandonment, reclamation, nicknaming, and forgetting.
January 19, 2009
The Vergognosi of Staten Island
"Italian Americans for Obama" 2008 presidential campaign sticker.
Again, Italian Americans are involved in racist attacks. Again, it's time to speak up.
January 18, 2009
Sacred Space, Real Estate, and the Enacted Environment
Joseph Sciorra
Santa Febronia Catholic Society’s chapel in Hoboken, New Jersey, September 14, 2008.
Two religious buildings historically associated with Italian-American Catholics face challenges to survive.
December 22, 2008
An Epic of Mediterranean Culture
Joe Milone and his Exhibited Shoe Shine Stand, 1942.
Sixty-six years ago, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a Sicilian-American bootblack’s decorated shoeshine kit, contributing to the museum director’s eventual dismissal.
September 28, 2008
Backyard Figs from Brooklyn
Joseph Sciorra
Figs
In which this blogger says nothing more profound than he really, really likes figs.
September 20, 2008
What’s So Funny about the Virgin Mary?
Luca Enrico Fantini
St. Mother Cabrini (LuLu LoLo) and me.
Ludic and hybridic reworkings of Catholic imagery and ritual are part of recent reimagining of Italian-American culture and identity.
September 14, 2008
The Sound of Italian-American Cultural Philanthropy
What happens when a PBS station targets Italian Americans as donors?
September 2, 2008
La Madonna Nera of New York City
Smiljana Peros
Drawing la Madonna Nera in chalk, Manhattan, September 8, 2006.
Italian Americans gather at a gay bar in Manhattan in celebration of the Black Madonna.
August 28, 2008
Lace in the Crystal City
Joseph Sciorra
The exhibition “Lace, the Spaces Between,” Corning, New York.
An exhibition presents women’s domestic needlework in Corning, New York.
August 24, 2008
A Sicilian named George Wallington
George Wallington album, 1954
Jazz pianist Giacinto Figlia aka George Wallington was at the founding of be-bop. Then he disappeared. Now Anthony Scotto’s resurrects his life and music.
August 20, 2008
Sending a Telegram to the Pope
Power, Humor, and the Triumph of the Lower Bodily Stratum.
August 14, 2008
A digital message in a bottle.
Roman Bronze Works, Brooklyn, circa 1910
A test of the Internet and i-italy.org's power to connect.
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