February 3, 2010
Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America
The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.
In the Camp of Fossoli
Fossoli was one of the 48 areas that hosted an internment camp during Fascism in Italy. On January 31, the screening of "The Jews of Fossoli" at the Museum for Jewish Heritage acknowledged us on life in the Fascist camps through a collection of survivors' testimonies. The presence of Prof.CarloSpartaco Capogreco, the Director of Fondazione Ferramonti , an organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the largest camp in Southern Italy, became an occasion to reflect and learn more about a historical reality that remains almost unknown in Italy
S.O.S. UNICO Challenges MTV
On Saturday afternoon a hundred or so people, among whom several leaders of Italian-American associations, community activists, and elected officials, gathered at the Seaside Heights Community Center on Jersey Shore to voice their protest against MTV’s “Jersey Shore” reality show
Frank Capra Films Italian-San Francisco
Capturing Italy’s encounter with California in Frank Capra’s documentary "La visita dell’ Incrociatore Italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 Novembre 1921"
February 3, 2010
Frank Capra Films Italian-San Francisco
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The Italian Cruiser, Libia, at its baptism, November, 11, 1912
Capturing Italy’s encounter with California in Frank Capra’s documentary "La visita dell’ Incrociatore Italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 Novembre 1921"
February 2, 2010
Art exhibition...o solo exhibition?
In veste di antropologa (o zoologa) in giro per Manhattan alla scoperta delle dinamiche sociali degli abitanti di questa giungla metropolitana. Tra quadri e realtà...
Vecchia Cucina: Perfecting Recipes on the Two Sides of the Pond
An interview with Riccardo Costa, a writer, producer and amazing chef who has recently published his book "Vecchia Cucina: Antique Original Family recipes from my Grandma Secret Kitchen."
I-Mussolini: a Political or an Educational Tool?
The most downloaded application in Italy right now, I-Mussolini, a collection of his speeches, causes debates and controversies all over the world.
An Italian Kitchen in Gramercy
Interview with Michele Scicolone, an Italian-American very successful cookbook writer, and i-Italy's Food and Wine Editor. Discover more about her latest book "The Italian Slow Cooker", her life with her family in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and her love for Italy and the country's culinary traditions!
February 1, 2010
Little Italy
Un'italiana a New York. Guardo al di là del mare, penso a quello che conosco e che mi aspetta. Penso ai miei amici stranieri in un paese che non li sa ospitare, il loro.
Ogni limite ha una pazienza
The new McItaly burger is the result of a partnership between the Italian government and McDonald’s. I can’t tolerate it, and this is why
January 31, 2010
“Southern Question” Reality or Representations: “Two Roads to the Past”
For over three hundred years, the historiography known as the ‘Critical Method’, based on the logic of science, has been a dominant mode of writing reality-history. However, Prof. Silvana Patriarca, writes a different sort of representation-history. Reading her discussion of the “Southern Question”, one must choose: “Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics” or Patriarca à la Foucault and Nietzsche!
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