November 8, 2018
Theater Review: Sacco and Vanzetti “A Long Shadow” by August Nigro
Italian American Theater of Chicago
Playbill "A Long Shadow" by August Nigro directed by Nancy Greco.
This review is not about the disputed facts or “alternative” facts about the case that tainted the reputation of the American “justice” system in the 1920s and beyond. Rather, it is about the powerful emotions that filled, and then overflowed from, the stage during the tour de force. As did the lives and deaths by electrocution of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, their actual and truthfully imagined words uttered by their avatars cast a long shadow beyond the present.
September 21, 2018
“Cynthia Nixon vs Andrew Cuomo: Sex or No Sex in the City”
The tallies are in for the Democratic Party primary race for New York State Governor, and unfortunately for most of us self-identified libidinous “Progressives” the answer is “NO.” Although allegedly “left-leaning” candidates, especially those of the female-kind, knocked off some “right-leaning” lower level, nominally Democratic Party incumbents, Governor Andrew Cuomo was the last man standing at the top.
September 10, 2018
Fascism in America and Italy: Does History Repeat Itself?
Jerry Krase
Walking through the Ballaro Market in Palermo.
Given the rise of intolerance at the highest levels of government in America and Italy, it makes sense to think about its illogical causes and potential effects.
August 13, 2018
Judging the Pizza and Prosecco Competition
Charles Scicolonw
Procecco Week in NYC
Prosecco amd Pizza the perfect combination
April 2, 2018
Calabrian Easter Bread, Key Ingredients, and Sensorial Transnational Connections
Joan Saverino
Muccellati made by author Easter 2018
Muccellatu, in regional language, is the word for the Easter bread made in San Giovanni in Fiore, Calabria, made distinct by, ananzu, wild anise seed. The author discusses the concept of a key ingredient, transnational connections and the role of the senses, especially memory.
February 25, 2018
Berlin Film Festival 68: some consideration
Copyright Berlinale 2018
Director Adina Pintillie withthe Golden Bear for "Touch Mee Not"
Sometimes it happens that the best films are not awarded at a festival.
This year a more rare thing happened in Berlin: one of the worst films has been awarded.
January 29, 2018
Maestra Melina at 100: A Lace Maker in Calabria, Italy
Photograph by author
Maestra Melina (right), her niece Maria Rosaria (center), and Sara (Maria Rosaria's mother)
This is the story of a Calabrian 100 year old lace maker of local renown, her social legacy as a teacher in a small village near Gioia Tauro, and her niece’s own lace making passion.
January 14, 2018
Finding the Right Words?
Jerry Krase
Somewhat of a mixed grilled rogues gallery on my foreign and domestic language dictionaries book shelf.
A few days ago, while watching Al Jazeera, or was it the dreaded Russian Television Network during lunch, I was not at all surprised to hear that the most-articulate-ever President of the United States of America, or POTUS as some refer to him, had embarrassed us, the Suffering People of the United States, or SPOTUS, again. Unlike his Kenyan-born Muslim presidential predecessor, there is never any doubt that he alone among all others truly says what he means. This time, he was heard muttering something scatologically unmentionable about “depressions into which manure is deposited.”
December 18, 2017
Pitta ‘Mpigliata: A Calabrian Christmas Pastry in Diaspora
Author's photo
Pitta 'Mpigliata made by the author, 2012
Pitta ‘mpigliata is an example of an iconic Calabrian Christmas pastry’s evolution and its persistence into a global diasporic network.
November 27, 2017
Wake Up And Have a Ball With Saint Paul
Fusaro 2017
As far as I’m concerned seriousness is merely fear pretending to be a grown-up.
November 23, 2017
Happy Thanksgiving! Lincoln and The Law of Attraction
Fusaro 2017
“Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life." –The Secret
November 18, 2017
Internet, la nuova prigione dell'umanità
In Italia, il giornalista Livio Varriale, lancia un allarme. Internet è un carcere digitale? Quali pericoli ci attenderanno nei prossimi anni ? E' a rischio la nostra libertà?
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