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Bensonhurst

Operation Rescue Flowerpot

Joey Skee

Historic Preservation, Italian-American Style

The Decorated Flowerpots of Brooklyn

Joey Skee

Looking (again) at a little known Italian-American folk art.

United We Stand. The New Italy

Christopher Thomas Lambright

i-Italy receives and publishes an article by Chris Lambright, a 37-years old Italian-American and African-American man whose experience as mixed ethnicity kid in the 1980s had him...

From Bensonhurst to Oslo and Beyond

Jerry Krase

Negative, or at least puzzled, reactions to visibly different newcomers is universal. Whether in America, Italy or Norway, learning how to see difference positively as part of all...

Chiara Montalto. An Italian-American Tale on Stage

Marina Melchionda & Laura Razzano

On November 4-20 the critically acclaimed Barefoot Theatre Company will present Chiara Montalto's Solo Show at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre. "Emergency Used Candles" is a...

A Family Store in Bensonhurst

Marina Melchionda

Louis Coluccio, grandson and son of the founders of D. Coluccio & Sons Italian Specialty Store, tells us the charming story of this family business and the role it plays in...

Backyard Figs from Brooklyn

Joey Skee

In which this blogger says nothing more profound than he really, really likes figs.

A Prayer for Bensonhurst: Pictures of an Italian Neighborhood on the Wane

Eleonora Mazzucchi

A Sicilian woman intrigued by the Italian American community's struggle for identity, explores the role of a church in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst. Her show of photographs, "Faith and...

Ottava Rima in Bensonhurst

Joey Ski

In a social club in Brooklyn, the lost poetry of a Sicilian contadino is heard again.

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