Giro d'Italia 2009 to kick off next week in Venice
BBC. In little over a week the first of 2009's Grand Tours will kick off in Venice, Italy. According to many the Tour of Italy is a harder one to win than its French cousin, because the Italians have a knack for picking really hard mountains to climb. (Read the Article)
April 29, 2009
Isn't It Authentic?
The new Visa ad, starring the captain of "The US Pizza Team"
Advertising's ersatz images of cucina italiana
Italy's Mafia thrives in global financial meltdown
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. While businesses around the world are hunkering down for survival, the Italian mob is living a golden moment. Italy's various organized crime syndicates — often lumped together colloquially as Mafia Inc. — are gobbling up gas stations, muscling in on supermarket franchises, making loans to cash-starved businesses, taking over trattorias and acquiring buildings in swank neighborhoods in Rome and Milan, investigators say. (Read the Article)
Swine flu: Italian government downplays risk
ADN KRONOS INTERNATIONAL. As governments around the world on Monday rushed to contain the spread of the deadly swine flu virus that already claimed 100 lives, Italy's foreign minister Franco Frattini played down the risk it posed to his country, calling this “insignificant”. Frattini noted that Italy was setting up a swine flu crisis unit within its health ministry, and welcomed the urgent meeting of European Union health ministers being called by the European Commission to discuss the situation. “I believe that it's right to put in place all the necessary European coordination in the face of this emergency,” Frattini told journalists in Luxembourg, where he was due to attend a summit of EU foreign ministers. (Read the Article)
Italian cruise ship thwarts pirate attack
CNN. The captain of the Italian cruise ship MSC Melody foiled an attack by pirates off the coast of Somalia on Saturday by ordering his security crew to fire back. Six armed pirates in a speedboat attacked the ship, which had about 1,500 people onboard. They fled after the security crew fired back. (Read the Article)
April 27, 2009
John Marchi an Italian American Class Act
State Sen. John Marchi takes to the schools to discuss secession with youngsters at PS 60 in 1993 (Advance file photo)
In my opinion, John Marchi was among the best and the brightest and he deserves a place alongside New York City's other unblemished political heroes such as Fiorello LaGuardia and Mario Cuomo. He left us at a time when positive political role models for Italians, Italian Americans, and those who want to be, are becoming scarce. History repeats and our time is another one during which too many elected representatives are being exposed as disgraces of one sort or another.
Italy marks anti-Nazi uprising amid debate
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Italy commemorated the anniversary of its anti-Nazi uprising Saturday amid a fierce debate over a proposal by Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservative forces to honor Italians who died fighting for the fascists. The proposed legislation would grant a special honor and pensions to all those who fought in World War II — those who fought for Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and anti-fascist partisans alike — essentially equating the two. (Read the Article)
Dear Letissia... Remembering John
John Cappelli died. I met him 6 years ago... for the first time. He was a great journalist and a great man, a friend. His boss Fausto Coen said to him: “I like your American style of journalism: terse and not verbose.” All of us will miss him
The Marine Carp Boys
Remembering John Cappelli (1927 - 2009). Aldo and John met each other in 1946 during an ocean crossing: two Americans who lived their adolescence and young adulthood in Italy during the war. Both faced it with courage, one in Tuscany and the other in Abruzzo. On the Marine Carp they talked about the future. One wanted to be a poet, the other dreamed of art. Once in the U.S., destiny separated their roads, and then reunited them again after 60 years. They discovered they had kept the same values; they were still fighters in life.
Cara Letissia... Il mio ricordo di John Cappelli
John Cappelli ci ha lasciato (1927 - 2009). Quel giorno dentro il palazzo di vetro ho incontrato un amico come pochi. Un vero cronista. L'ultimo comunista, così amava definirsi a volte... “Mi piace il tuo far cronaca all’americana, stringato e non da parolaio” gli aveva detto il suo ex direttore
To Educate Italian American Children…or NOT??
Italian Americans are generally not highly educated, and they are especially lacking in education about their history and culture. Can there be Culture without Education?
Abruzzo. L'America si mobilita
Generoso D'Agnese, noto giornalista esperto di emigrazione italiana, ci racconta come gli abruzzesi d'America si sono impegnati per aiutare i terremotati
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