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A Few Random Thoughts after The Loss of Two Friends!

Anthony Julian Tamburri

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.

July 2, 2008

A Few Random Thoughts after The Loss of Two Friends!

Anthony Julian Tamburri
Rocco Caporale, on Wednesday, April 2, 2008, the John D. Calandra Italian/American Institute

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.

Watching “Serpico” with my Thirteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative

July 1, 2008

Watching “Serpico” with my Thirteen-Year-Old Son

Joseph Sciorra

Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative.

July 1, 2008

Italian "Docs" on the Cutting Edge

George De Stefano
Marco Cappelli and Marc Ribot playing "Italian DOC Remix"
at the Italian Cultural Institute on June 30th

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

Does Misery Love Company? Italy’s Roma

Judith Harris

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.

July 1, 2008

Does misery love company? Italy’s Roma

Judith Harris

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.

Fletcher is Gone

Chiara Montalto

A Memory of Rudy Vecoli

The Artist's Iron Man: a Life in Sculpture and Film

Ilaria Costa

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

Decreto sicurezza a Roma. Quando l'inverno avanza d'estate

Luca Trinchieri

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.....

The European Union’s Immigration Policy and Italian Immigrants in Latin America

Laura E. Ruberto

Invoking Italy’s history of emigration, activists and politicians in Latin America condemn the European Union’s latest anti-immigration stand.

June 29, 2008

The European Union’s Immigration Policy and Italian Immigrants in Latin America

Laura E. Ruberto
Immigration Authorization Stamp, Argentina

Invoking Italy’s history of emigration, activists and politicians in Latin America condemn the European Union’s latest anti-immigration stand.

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