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Finance and Ruins: Italy's Treasured Sites in Peril

Eleonora Mazzucchi

Pompeii and the Valley of the Temples are only a couple of Italy's fabled historical attractions, but it doesn't mean they should fall into deterioration and financial...

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...

The Island in the Sun Part II

Charles Scicolone

The new and the old come together in Sicily and today's tourist is attracted by the food, wine and culture.

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.

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...

St. Joseph's Altar, Barese Style

Joey Skee

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

Carmen Consoli Back in the US

Italy's top female singer-songwriter Carmen Consoli to play concert halls in New York, DC and Boston

The Unmaking of the Made Men of Sicily?

Judith Harris

The crackdown on Mafia shows Italy at its best. Southern Italian cities, though plagued by many serious problems, no longer seem to be suitable places for a good mobster to hang...

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.

Snapshots of Sacred Images & Local Pride

Samira Leglib

Photographs by Blaise Tobia are on exhibit at the Italian American Museum: faces, costumes, and contrasts of the feast of the Holy Cross of Calatafini

Child Slavery in Sicily 1910

Tom Verso

“The cruelties to which the child slaves of Sicily have been subjected are as bad as anything reported of the cruelties of Negro slavery.” Booker Taliaferro Washington: “The...

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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