The War on Christmas has reached Italy’s shores.

An Italian school principal was forced to resign amid a flurry of controversy after he replaced the annual Christmas concert with a winter recital — a move even the prime minister and the predominantly Catholic country’s non-Christians have condemned.

Buongiorno! Are you someone with Italian roots who would like to keep the tradition going in your family? Do you just love the sound of Italian names or have memories of a lovely trip there? MooseRoots collected data from the Social Security Administration, as well as Oxford University Press to find the top 25 Italian names trending in the U.S.

Everything that was good and bad about Lincoln Center’s underwhelming fund-raising gala timed to Frank Sinatra’s centennial, “Sinatra: Voice for a Century” at David Geffen Hall on Thursday, converged late in the evening in a moment of disturbing clarity.

“Boardwalk Empire” fans can celebrate that “The Wannabe,” Nick Sandow’s modest, assured and cautionary gangland character study, has players they may have been missing (if not the post-World War I setting).

The oil was sold on the Italian and international markets, in US and Japan, with the statement '100 percent Italian' on the label for an illicit turnover estimated to be in the "tens of millions of euros," according to the State Forestry Corps

Over the years, Frank Sinatra had his issues with the press. One night in 1947, he spotted newspaper columnist Lee Mortimer in Ciro’s Restaurant on LA’s Sunset Strip and cracked him in the mouth. With all the nasty things Mortimer had to say about Sinatra, most people agree he had it coming.