Texting Shortcuts and Etiquette
Is there a general rule to follow when sending a text in the professional world? And how about all those texting abbreviations and acronyms, where can I learn them all?
Festivals: the Preservation of Culture
Festivals are often overlooked as simple events to get your funnel cake fix. But they're often much more than that, especially when culture is concerned.
August 20, 2010
Ground Zero Mosque: Ramadan Mobarak!
Jerry Krase
The Christian Cross had become a tourist attraction at Ground Zero as will the Cordoba House Cultural Islamic Center and Mosque, he said hopefully. As did Yakov Smirnoff on his mural -- "The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act but by the size of the heart."
I wrote this a few weeks ago but the intolerance is growing so I added a new note about "Park51," "Cordoba House," "the Islamic cultural, community center," and, of course "place of worship," (mosque) that its proposers and supporters (like myself) believed (hoped) would promote peace and understanding. The most venomous blabber so far has been the Newt's equating of Moslems to NAZIs and 9/11 to the Shoah. Given his recently reported conversion to Roman Catholicism, I assume the next Newt revision is the Inquisition and the Crusades and then, I assume, there is more to come.
August 20, 2010
Festivals: the Preservation of Culture
Kristian Campana
Feast of the Assumption in Cleveland
Festivals are often overlooked as simple events to get your funnel cake fix. But they're often much more than that, especially when culture is concerned.
Slow Food, Fast Changes. We Met Carlo Petrini ...
While visiting the campus of the University of Gastronomic Studies in Pollenzo, Italy, we met Carlo Petrini, founder of "Slow Food" and director of the university. We discussed the history of the movement, food diversity and Italian cuisine in the United States.
August 19, 2010
Texting Shortcuts and Etiquette
Fusaro 2010
Yet Another Bloody Acronym?!
Is there a general rule to follow when sending a text in the professional world? And how about all those texting abbreviations and acronyms, where can I learn them all?
Italian-American Group UNICO Takes Issue With Mafia II, Take-Two Responds
GAMASUTRA.COM UNICO National, which claims to be the largest Italian American service organization in the United States, has taken a stand against Take-Two Interactive in regards to the portrayal of Italians in Mafia II. Calling it "pile of racist nonsense", UNICO president Andre' DiMino is demanding that Take-Two hold back on releasing the title, which is due to hit retail on August 24th. (Read the article)
Glee star Lea Michele: 'I'm proud of my Jewish nose'
HAARETZ. I come from a big Italian family and that kind of pressure is not something I've been raised with," she told the U.S.magazine during a press conference. "I've always been proud of my body and my Jewish nose. Hollywood's Hollywood, but that’s not going to change." (Read the article)
Veteran Italian politician Cossiga dies
AP. Veteran politician Francesco Cossiga, who led Italy's fight against domestic terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s but resigned after failing to save the life of a politician kidnapped by the Red Brigades, died on Tuesday. He was 82. (Read the article)
Mobster undone by love of mamma's cooking. Fugutive Camorra clan suspect captured while tucking in
ANSA. A suspected member of the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, has been arrested by Italian police after being unable to resist his mother's culinary delights. (Read the article)
Shooting starts on Sorrentino's new movie. Penn stars in Italian director's first international movie
ANSA. Shooting on award-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's first English language movie got under way in Ireland this week. (Read the article)
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