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A Spring Break in Italy with NOIAW

Marina Melchionda

The National Organization of Italian American Women, in collaboration with ANFE (Associazione Nazionale Famiglie Emigranti), is organizing a trip to Sicily (Palermo, Catania, and...

Tano da morire: Singing, Dancing, Shooting

George De Stefano

The 1997 Mafia musical satire "Tano da morire" (finally) gets a U.S. release. There has never been a movie about the Sicilian Mafia quite like it... Surreal and often very...

Leonardo Sciascia’s Mafia

Judith Harris

Predictably, rhetoric marked the twentieth anniversary of the death of Leonardo Sciascia on November 20. But rhetoric was the opposite of Sciascia. If anything, the Sicilian...

Rock the Mafia, Andy Warhol Style

Elsa Bazzini

Andy Warhol made some of the most recognizable art of the 20th century. Now two students from Palermo borrow his loud, colorful style to send a message about art and politics to...

How to Fight the Mafia? Serve a Mean Fried Rice Ball

Eleonora Mazzucchi

In an expanded effort to counter the Mafia's extortionist activities in Sicily, a food fair goes on tour to major Italian cities. The outdoor stands, which will feature Sicilian...

Italian and American Crackdown on Mafia

At least 80 people have been arrested in a major crackdown on the Mafia carried out by Italian and American law enforcement agencies.

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