Giovanni Allevi, compositore ed esecutore di gran stile, raffinato, coraggioso e deciso a raggiungere il sogno di libertà e di umanità che solo la musica riesce a suggerire.
Con «La musica in testa» (Rizzoli) il giovane musicista "spiega" le ragioni profonde e sincere del suo essere uomo ed artista insieme, il confronto col reale e la lotta contro l’ottusità di chi dubita che il nuovo possa "vero"
At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival a new generation of Italan moviemakers show that Italian cinema is back with new ideas and interesting works. The grand prix this year went to Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah while the jury prize was presented to Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo
A Brief Visit to California’s Subterranean Marvel, Baldassare Forestiere’s “Underground Gardens.”
This is Part 1 of a four part essay entilted "Non Parlo Italiano" about the ways in which assimilation impacted my ability, as a second generation Italian American, to learn my Italian grandparents' mother tongue.
From inside the heart of the NYPD - The shattering police corruption scandal and the trial that stunned a city. Detective Stephen Caracappa achieved the distinguished rank of first grade detectve while under the hire of the Luchese crime family. Detective Louis Eppolito worked the heart of Brooklyn's mobland; he himself was the son of a Gambino crime family soldier.
![]() | La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience author: Jerre Mangione asin: 0060924411 binding: Paperback list price: $18.99 USD amazon price: $15.34 USD |
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“An accomplished and superior novelist” (Statesman Journal) delivers a bittersweet book about a woman’s midlife crisis that asks: How does a good girl know when to finally let herself be bad?
When she learns that her college sweetheart husband has been seeing another woman, Mira Serafino’s perfect world is shattered and she wants no one, least of all her big Italian family, to know. She heads north—with no destination and little money— stopping only when her car breaks down in Seattle.
![]() | Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe author: Jennie Shortridge asin: 0451223888 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $12.67 USD |
“An accomplished and superior novelist” (Statesman Journal) delivers a bittersweet book about a woman’s midlife crisis that asks: How does a good girl know when to finally let herself be bad?
When she learns that her college sweetheart husband has been seeing another woman, Mira Serafino’s perfect world is shattered and she wants no one, least of all her big Italian family, to know. She heads north—with no destination and little money— stopping only when her car breaks down in Seattle.