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Sicily

A Sicilian mechanic, a New York Legacy

Gabrielle Pati

The Second Annual Domenico (“Domenick”) Spadaro Memorial Drive was held on Saturday August 13, 2011 in White Plains, NY in honor of the beloved Sicilian garagiste whose unique...

At Lampedusa, “The End of the World”

Judith Harris

The Sicilian island where hope and desperation coexist has become a prime transit site for illegal immigrants hoping to make it into Europe

On Both Sides of the Atlantic, Pride in Anti-Mob Action

Judith Harris

While in New York nearly 125 are arrested in “the largest mob roundup in F.B.I. history," Italian Senator and former governor of Sicily Salvatore Cuffaro is sentenced to 7 years...

Two New Cookbooks Capture the Flavors of Puglia and Sicily

Michele Scicolone

Two Italian cookbooks published in English translation capture the colors and flavors of Puglia and Sicily. They are part of a new culinary series from Oronzo Editions.

CGNY Go to Sicily. For a Common Ground Among Young Italians and Italian Americans

Kristine Jannuzzi

CGNY’s activities range from a night of tombola and pizza, to a soccer match, to a full-scale young Italian music festival and the Miss Italia Nel Mondo NY competition. More...

Move over, Tony Soprano—you’ve had it

Judith Harris

"The era of the Corleonesi is definitely at an end." We are witnessing "the mutation of the Mafia strategy into one that is clearly based on finance." (Antonio Ingroia,...

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...

Ricordando Vincenzo Ancona

Joey Skee

Poet, visual artist, raconteur, singer, immigrant laborer, friend.

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...

Roots, Re-Imagined: The Sicilian Jazz Project

George De Stefano

Michael Occhipinti crosses genres with The Sicilian Jazz Project

From Eva to Elettra

George De Stefano

Sicilian singer/songwriter Carmen Consoli returns with a new album and US tour

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...

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