When our role models leave us, where do we go to look for others? This is, for sure, one of the questions that arises after the loss of both Rudi Vecoli and Rocco Caporale, two intellectual giants of the Italian/American community nation-wide.
When our role models leave us, where do we go to look for others? This is, for sure, one of the questions that arises after the loss of both Rudi Vecoli and Rocco Caporale, two intellectual giants of the Italian/American community nation-wide.
Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative
Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative.
On the last night of June, the band Italian Doc Remix turned a space in the Istituto Italiano di Cultura into the hippest room in Manhattan
Few are more miserable these days than the Roma, or Gypsies, in Italy, whose camps are being bulldozed, whose shacks are being firebombed, and whose children now risk being fingerprinted.
Few are more miserable these days than the Roma, or Gypsies, in Italy, whose camps are being bulldozed, whose shacks are being firebombed, and whose children now risk being fingerprinted.
Vincenzo Amato is both an actor and sculptor who has starred in a number of films, including Emanuele Crialese's "The Golden Door" ("Nuovo Mondo"). He talks sculpture and his predilection for iron while he gives us a tour of his Lower East Side studio
Trastevere. Un semplice controllo. Non è un semplice controllo: tre macchine e una camionetta vuota che ha tutta l´impressione di dover essere riempita. E' entrato in vigore del decreto sicurezza, che amplia i poteri per i sindaci in materia di ordine pubblico.....
Invoking Italy’s history of emigration, activists and politicians in Latin America condemn the European Union’s latest anti-immigration stand.
Invoking Italy’s history of emigration, activists and politicians in Latin America condemn the European Union’s latest anti-immigration stand.