January 21, 2010
Crepe....non Crepes
Una settimana dopo il mio arrivo scopro di avere fame. L'emozione dell'avventura aveva alterato le percezioni, finché le prime sensazioni di adattamento hanno portato ordine nel caos. Ma resta qualche dubbio.
Il caso che l'Italia non racconta
Da 18 giorni due uomini italiani sono in sciopero della fame per chiedere al Parlamento di prendere in esame la legge sulle unioni civili. Le autorità e la stampa non ne parlano, mentre due europarlamentari per solidarietà si sono uniti alla loro protesta con il digiuno
January 21, 2010
Guido: an Italian American Youth Style
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, January 21. My opening comments for "Guidos, an Italian American Youth Style"
Top Italian official suggests a law to force 18-year-olds to leave home
USA TODAY. Renato Brunetta, minister of public administration, suggested the new law after an Italian judge ordered a 60-year-old father to keep paying a living allowance to his 32 year-old live-in daughter who had finished university studies eight years ago. (Read the article)
Technology catches up with truant teens. Schools installing digital surveillance to keep tabs on students
ANSA. Technology is catching up with school-skipping teens in Italy who are about to find themselves up against a wall of digital surveillance that will notify their parents when they cut class, education officials said Wednesday. (Read the article)
Ten-year wait for Oscar Glory continues. Baaria fails in Academy Award bid
ANSA. Italy's ten-year wait for Oscar glory will have to continue after Giuseppe Tornatore's Baaria failed to make the long list for the best foreign-language film. (Read the article)
Italian Americans Between Guidos and Columbus. An Interview with Nancy Carnevale
There is nothing new in certain segments of the community trying to impose their views of what it means to be Italian American on others. This controversy reminds me of recent tensions around the celebration of Columbus Day.
The Situation
'Guido' is a phenomenon that demands attention. If Italian American social advance were as real, as secure, and as substantial as many Italian Americans believe it to be (I am among these believers), then it would seem not only not harmful, but indeed positively beneficial and necessary, to examine, to discuss, and to reflect upon the power of such a new word.
January 20, 2010
The Situation
Mike, Snooki and Pauly in Jersey Shore Hook-Up'
'Guido' is a phenomenon that demands attention. If Italian American social advance were as real, as secure, and as substantial as many Italian Americans believe it to be (I am among these believers), then it would seem not only not harmful, but indeed positively beneficial and necessary, to examine, to discuss, and to reflect upon the power of such a new word.
At Milan’s Fall Shows, the Clothes Go Marching On
THE NEW YORK TIMES. WAR is evil, but historically it has also been the engine of innovation, a fact most obviously true of technology although not necessarily less so when it comes to fashion. (Read the article)
Italy divided on Craxi legacy 10 years after death
THE WASHINGTON POST. A decade after his death, Italians are split over whether to commemorate Prime Minister Bettino Craxi as a great statesman or a Machiavellian master of corruption who died in exile as a fugitive. (Read the article)
Europe's biggest telescope 'hit by cuts'. Sardinia project under threat, Hack says
ANSA. A huge new telescope in Sardinia will not be able to start work because of Italian budget cuts, one of Italy's top astrophysicists warned Tuesday. (Read the article)
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