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July 29, 2008

Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee
Don Homer

A “teachable moment” about mafia realities and representations.

July 24, 2008

“Italians sunbathe as Gypsy girls drown.”

Joey Skee
"Bimbe Rom annegate, l'indifferenza della spiaggia," were the succinct words many Italian news sources used in their feature on the story.

On vacation, Italy’s rightward turn haunts me.

July 16, 2008

Chi è Pete Panto?

Joey Skee
Pete Panto (1911-1939)

An Italian-American worker who fought the mob that you never heard of.

July 11, 2008

Una malia contro il malocchio dei prominenti.

Joey Skee
Eliza Putnam Heaton, "By-Paths in Sicily"
"Door Charms for the Evil Eye" (detail), Sicily, circa 1910.

Iettature, malie, & la lingua a strascinuni in the 21st century.

July 9, 2008

“O’ Giglio e Paradiso”: An Italian-American Musical Classic

Joey Skee
(from left to right) Salvatore “Tutti” Ferrara, Antonio Rosalia, and Phil Caccavalle, giglio feast, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1950.

What the Brooklyn giglio feast and an obscure musician might tell us about Italian-American culture.

July 2, 2008

Watching “Serpico” with my Thirteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative.