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Heroes
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July 2, 2008
Watching “Serpico” with my Thirteen-Year-Old Son
Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative.
May 14, 2008
Sinatra, a Morality Tale.
Harry Benson
Frank Sinatra at Truman Capote's "Black and White Ball," New York City, 1966
Musings on Italian-American masculinity, power, and bullying on the tenth anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s death.
February 11, 2008
Decidedly Not Italian Enough
Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani
Some thoughts on why I chose to remain silent and why I now think it's worth a blog post, thanks to Anthony Tamburri.
January 21, 2008
Remembering James Groppi
Wisconsin Historical Society
Father James Groppi and civil rights leaders during NAACP march, Milwaukee, 1968.
Activist James Groppi (1930-1985) marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. and others in the struggle for freedom.
July 16, 2008
Chi è Pete Panto?
Pete Panto (1911-1939)
An Italian-American worker who fought the mob that you never heard of.
April 12, 2010
The Italian-American Political & Moral Bocce Club of Paradise’s Inaugural Annual May Day Dinner Dance, Gala, and Reception
Another blog post about a very real event parodying ongoing surreal phenomena.
August 23, 2012
The New Negative Image of Italian Americans
Titzu Nishi and the Public Art Fund
Titzu Nishi's drawing for the “Discovering Columbus” art installation.
The inane opinions of a few and the diminution of Italian America.
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- italianrap è morto! Viva Italian Rap!
- Sal Paradise was an Italophobe.
- A Ph.D. in Basket Weaving
- Sinatra, a Morality Tale.
- A Tourist Visits Italian in California
- "C'è la luna": Anatomy of an Italian-American "Folk" Song
- Operation Rescue Flowerpot
- A moribund italianità.
- The Vergognosi of Staten Island
- The New Negative Image of Italian Americans
- Linking the Diaspora Musically
- The Cultural Politics of Coffee
- St. Joseph's Altar, Barese Style
- Lace in the Crystal City
- Remembering James Groppi
- Mr. Piccolo’s Peculiar Obsession
- An entry from The Encyclopedia of Imagined Italian-Americana
- Whose Day Is It Anyway?
- The Decorated Flowerpots of Brooklyn
- Williamsburg Radicale
- Bologna 1977
- Una malia contro il malocchio dei prominenti.
- Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America
- The Italian-American Political & Moral Bocce Club of Paradise's Inaugural Annual Spring Fling Dinner Dance, Gala, and Reception
- Serendipitous Encounters of an Italian-American Kind
- Rethinking 150 Years
- The Wacky World of Arthur Piccolo
- Tony Soprano Made Me Do It!
- An American Folklorist in Italy
- What’s his name?! What’s his name?!
- My Italian American Museum
- Return of the Italian-American Voldemort
- Talking Folklore
- Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son
- An Ex-W.O.P. Casts His Vote
- Thinking Neapolitan
- The Sound of Italian-American Cultural Philanthropy
- Francesco Pepe, My Dutch Paisan
- Vittoria Pietropaoli, An Appreciation
- Chi è Pete Panto?
- The Italian-American Political & Moral Bocce Club of Paradise Funds the Documentary Film Baci Bocce!!!
- Paul Zarzyski, Italian-American Rodeo Poet
- Benefit Concert for Calandra Institute, June 10th
- Wise Men Melchior and Balthazar banned in northern Italian city.
- Folk Performances of the Italian-American Prominenti
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