Menswear. Going Back to Their Roots
THE NEW YORK TIMES. The opening day of the Milan menswear shows underscored an overall message: Love that heitage! Designers went back to their roots for the autumn/winter 2010 season — and instead of seeming like they were churning out old ideas, there was an authenticity to the clothes that created slivers of emotion. (Read the article)
Globes honor Scorsese with Cecil B. DeMille Award
THE WASHINGTON POST. In presenting Martin Scorsese with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes, his longtime friend and collaborator Robert De Niro found a new way to describe the director's famous, obsessive love of cinema. (Read the article)
January 17, 2010
Primi giorni
Perdersi, scoprire, cercare dei punti di riferimento e capire che la libertà è uno stato mentale che si nutre di amore.
Crackdown on Culture Crime: Italy’s Proud Carabinieri Art Squad
The message: it works! Italy’s campaign to crack down on thefts of its treasures of art and archaeology has borne fruit, and the proof is in the statistics in the year-end report, released January 14 in Rome by General Giovanni Nistri, head of Italy’s crack Carabinieri art squad.
January 17, 2010
Crackdown on Culture Crime: Italy’s Proud Carabinieri Art Squad
The message: it works! Italy’s campaign to crack down on thefts of its treasures of art and archaeology has borne fruit, and the proof is in the statistics in the year-end report, released January 14 in Rome by General Giovanni Nistri, head of Italy’s crack Carabinieri art squad.
Keyword: Different. What Guidos Are, and Are Not
The "Guido/Goomba/Cugine" is a very distinctive-looking, working-class East Coast Italian-American. The whole lifestyle may seem shallow or strange to some, but “authentic” Italian-American life does not have to revolve around formal language, Renaissance art or the opera. This is indeed a subculture that is very complex and needs exploration—not shunning and shame. There can be civil discussions about all these differences, but there should never be any mean-spirited debates on which is right or wrong.
January 17, 2010
C'era una volta...
Vi racconto New York così come la vedo con i miei occhi italiani, come la sento, l'ascolto e l'assaporo attraverso la pelle e l'anima di me viaggiatrice. Userò la mia storia ed il mio mondo antico per esplorare la città che promette sogni. Userò le mie parole per condividerla.
Guido: Stereotype, Caricature, or Lifestyle?
What is this guido thing? Is it pure caricature put on us by the outside world, or do we have an active part in it? Is it lifestyle or demeaning stereotype? A (former guido) brother who now teaches environmental engineering, and a (longtime anti-guido) sister who is now an actress, writer and filmmaker, look back.
January 16, 2010
An Unexamined "Culture"
Anti-Guido shirts on sale at Long Island's anti-Guido resistance website getoffourisland.com
What is this guido thing? Is it pure caricature put on us by the outside world, or do we have an active part in it? Is it lifestyle or demeaning stereotype? A (former Guido) brother and a (longtime anti-Guido) sister look back. Written with Franco Montalto.
L’Abruzzo, i politici e la Film Commission fantasma
Alla Regione manca la volontá politica per la promozione.
Ode to Italian Cuisine
“The poet’s cookbook” by Grace Cavalieri and Sabine Pascarelli (Bordighera Press, 2009) is a collection of authentic Italian recipes accompanied by poems by 28 Italian and American authors
Fred Gardaphe. Guido, an Italian-American Controversy
Fred Gardaphe on 'Guido culture' and why the wave of negative response to MTV's Jersey Shore comes from what he calls 'irony deficiency' in the Italian-American community.
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