Tony Soprano Made Me Do It!
Turncoat mafioso’s statement about media depictions of Italian Americans is “smoking gun” say some Italian-Americans. No kidding.
Un paese stregato dalle bocce
Il Calandra Italian American Institute della Cuny ha
presentato “Watch the
Pallino”, il documentario diretto da Stephanie Foerster che mostra come a Toluca, un piccolo centro dell’Illinois, l’intera popolazione viene coinvolta nel gioco che gli emigrati italiani portarono negli Usa all’inizio del secolo
March 8, 2008
Tony Soprano Made Me Do It!
Turncoat mafioso’s statement about media depictions of Italian Americans is “smoking gun” say some Italian-Americans. No kidding.
March 8th, International Women’s Day, a century-old event
Saturday March 8th Italian cities celebrated International Women’s Day, a century-old event observed in many countries but that has particular significance for Italy, where women’s rights and opportunities remain contentious topics of national debate
March 8, 2008
Bread and Roses or “Mimose”?
"Per te mondina" (Cgil magazine)
1949 Strike (braccianti and mondine)
Where has over 100 years of honoring women gotten us?
March 7, 2008
Giuseppe Di Stefano: the southern Italian voice that conquered the world!
Giuseppe Di Stefanio singing 'Vesti la giubba' from Leoncavallo's 'Pagliacci'
Sicilian born tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano died at the age of 86 in his home in Brianza (Lombardy) last Monday, March 3rd at 5am, after a long agony caused by injuries sustained in November 2004, when he was attacked at his family’s villa in Kenya. Opera fans from everywhere cried for the tremendous loss.
“Watch the Pallino”. Bocce Ball in Toluca, Illinois.
“Watch the Pallino”, a documentary screened Wednesday March 5th at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and presented by Joe Sciorra of the John Calandra Institute, traces the peculiar history of the bocce craze in Toluca. Director Stephanie Foerster returned to her mother’s hometown to capture the annual Labor Day weekend bocce tournament...
L’Italo Americano’s 100 Years of Service
America's oldest Italian newspaper celebrates its first century
Italians in Hollywood
Anna Magnani's and Raf Vallone's portrayals of Italian-Americans seen anew in New York.
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