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October 2, 2007

Mr. Columbus

Moustache Pete

Fred Gardaphe reads one of his Moustach Pete's columns...

Central Park & “La cantantessa”. Consoli’s music in NYC

George De Stefano

Carmen Consoli, Italy’s leading female singer-songwriter, returned to New York to give a concert at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, an amphitheater famous for its Shakespeare productions.
On a pleasantly warm, late summer evening, under a clear sky, Consoli entertained an audience of Italian expatriates and American fans with material from her most recent album, Eva Contro Eva, as well as some radically revised versions of older songs.
The Central Park show was the best of the three appearances “la cantantessa” from Catania has made in New York in as many years.

October 2, 2007

Honoring Giuseppe Garibaldi. A summer evening in the underworld

Robert Viscusi

Giuseppe Garibaldi will be the theme of the October 2007 Italian Heritage and Culture.

October 2, 2007

Agenda for Italian American Students

Paul J. Carvet

Young people between the ages of sixteen and thirty-two, the following is a “to do” list that may open not just your mind but also some doors to greater social acceptability and maybe a meaningful job. It is part of what my colleagues call (re)making Italian Americans. ...

October 2, 2007

Sancto Ianne

George De Stefano

Sancto Ianne offers the energy of rock, the sophistication and creative daring of jazz, the truth-telling directness of folk music, and demands that you Listen Up!

Anton Coppola: Maestro …by All Means!

Luigi Boccia

We met Anton Coppola, one of the living legends of the operatic panorama of New York in his apartment, surrounded by scores and photographic memories, and with a grand piano in the corner.

October 2, 2007

Bigotry

Anthony J. Tamburri

To decry bigotry aimed at one group by willy-nilly impugning bigotry to others seems, simply stated, offensive, wrongheaded, and embarrassing to all who are engaged in the enterprise of eliminating such prejudice.

USA. Pena di morte. La posizione dei candidati alle primarie del 2008

Luca Bolognini

Raccolta di alcune brevi schede riassuntive della posizione dei candidati alle elezioni primarie dei due maggiori partiti politici americani

UN and Death Penalty: Italy's key role

Valerio Bosco

The use of capital punishment is one of the main humanitarian issues that the UN has dealt with within the last twenty years and the idea of establishing a universal moratorium on the death penalty can be considered one of the most important Italian foreign...

UN & Death Penalty: The Italian Initiative become European

Valerio Bosco

During recent years, a growing number of countries across the globe have abolished the death penalty. Only 25 countries carried out executions in 2006, while 130 countries from every region of the world have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice.

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