Students in Piazza
IACE’s Summer Program has partnered with Progetto Scuole in organizing a contest among American students of Italian. The students wrote articles about the “Italian Piazza”. The winners were awarded with a trip to Italy and had a ‘real’ taste of its piazzas.
See You in Piazza!
There aren’t too many piazze in the States and the few that do exist, don’t have the charm of the Italian ones. The piazza is the symbol of Italian life and style
Scooter, USA
Vespa: Italian excellence in America. Interview with Paolo Timoni, President and CEO of "Piaggio Group Americas."
Politics & the Piazza
The Piazza as a political forum, from the empires to the contemporary democracies... passing through dictatorships.
Meeting Italian Art Abroad
Renato Miracco, the director of the Italian Cultural Institute, is contributing to the creation of an Italian "Piazza degli Artisti" (Square of the Artists) in New York
Linking Italian & US Business: Interview with Lucio Caputo
Lucio Caputo, President of GEI (Gruppo Esponenti Italiani) sees his organization as a piazza where Italian and American businesses meet
Italianità on FaceBook
Nowadays several Facebook groups focus on the theme of Italian Culture. In which way they can be considered adequate testimonials of "Italianità"?
October 11, 2008
Salve, Salvo
Luca Zingaretti as Sicilian detective Salvo Montalbano
Sicilian sleuth Montalbano comes to New York (finalmente!)
October 11, 2008
Le cose che la stampa non dice
Il pareggio tra Palin e Biden é una sonora sconfitta per i democratici
When an Italian Says a Parolaccia
An American student discovers that Parolacce (Dirty Words) are part of the Italian people everyday vocabulary. They are used by students, housewives, actors, blue and white collars to express feelings and emotions. And by politicians too.
The Great White Fleet opens the Columbus Day Celebrations
The Great White Fleet exhibit is currently on display in Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall (entrance on 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan). It opens the Columbus Day festivities which culminate with the annual Columbus Day parade on Monday
October 9, 2008
Racism/Razzismo Part III: Lest We Forget: Racism Will Make Victims of Us All
Jerry Krase
These are images of my Sicilian-born grandfather Gerolimo Cangelosi. One is him as a child with his father and the other is a portrait of him as a rather handsome young man. I never met him but my mother told me he was a good father who started out in business by selling watermelon by the slice on the streets of Manhattan, and that he also helped to build (dig) the Panama Canal. He became a successful businessman and landlord in Brooklyn.
This essay is the third, and last, in my series alluding to the similarities between Bensonhurst 1989 and Italy 2008. It was the second article I wrote for The Brooklyn Free Press after it became increasingly obvious to me that The Media had decided to make the “Italian” aspect of the murder of Yusuf Hawkins, and the neighborhood's reaction to provocative marches through the community, a continuing story.
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