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Sicilian and Southern Italian languages: Lessons of Norway and Ireland

Tom Verso

Indigenous languages suppressed by a foreign imposed lingua franca have shown profound capacity to reinvigorate themselves. If the ‘dead national languages’ of Norway and...

Talking to Aldo Grasso About TV, Jersey Shore, The Sopranos...and When Politics Dictates the Line Up

Letizia Airos

Journalist, television critic, professor of radio and television history at Catholic University in Milan, Aldo Grasso moderates a forum entitled “Television” on Corriere della...

What Columbus Day Really Means

William J. Connell

If you think the holiday pits Native Americans against Italian Americans, consider the history behind its origin

The Situation

Robert Viscusi

'Guido' is a phenomenon that demands attention. If Italian American social advance were as real, as secure, and as substantial as many Italian Americans believe it to be (I am...

Keyword: Different. What Guidos Are, and Are Not

Johnny DeCarlo*

The "Guido/Goomba/Cugine" is a very distinctive-looking, working-class East Coast Italian-American. The whole lifestyle may seem shallow or strange to some, but “authentic”...

Camille Paglia’s Androgyny Aesthetics - Why Italian Americans Love the Sopranos

Tom Verso

“Bourgeois English department feminist promoting cancellation of male concentration and projection cut no ice at the corner garage…on the streets…” - or with Soprano fans..

Look For The Union Libel

George De Stefano

The GOP and Big Business Smear Organized Labor

Italian Wine Week in New York

Daniele Ministeri

All the best Italian wines were presented to American importers at the Hilton Hotel in New York, a stop on Italian Wine Week's countrywide road trip.

“The Sopranos: A Wake”. An International Conference at Fordham University

George De Stefano

"The Sopranos: A Wake" conference will bring over 60 writers and academics from several countries to Fordham University, May 22-24.

Tony Soprano Made Me Do It!

Joey Skee

Turncoat mafioso’s statement about media depictions of Italian Americans is “smoking gun” say some Italian-Americans. No kidding.

It Wasn’t Columbus’ Fault. Or Was It?

Ottorino Cappelli

Musings around a frivolous article about very serious things... and some suggestions for those who think that Christopher Columbus was just an "Italian" hero.

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