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Brooklyn

A wall, a poem, a summer epiphany.

Joey Skee

I am reminded of Eugenio Montale's haunting poem upon discovering a simple barrier wall built by an Italian immigrant in Brooklyn during the 1930s.

Chi è Pete Panto?

Joey Skee

An Italian-American worker who fought the mob that you never heard of.

“O’ Giglio e Paradiso”: An Italian-American Musical Classic

Joey Skee

What the Brooklyn giglio feast and an obscure musician might tell us about Italian-American culture.

A Californian Goes East

Laura E. Ruberto

A look at Oakland's Italian American neighborhood and what it might tell us about Nutley, New Jersey.

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...

Gino Vitale, Brooklyn developer and shrine builder.

Joey Skee

Brooklyn developer Gino Vitale adapts the centuries old edicole sacre (devotional shrines) to his newly constructed buildings.

St. Joseph's Altar, Barese Style

Joey Skee

Celebrating St. Joseph in Brooklyn and some thoughts on lived religion.

Italians in Hollywood

Joey Skee

Anna Magnani's and Raf Vallone's portrayals of Italian-Americans seen anew in New York.

The Cultural Politics of Coffee

Joey Skee

In Search of a Decent Espresso in New York City.

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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