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March 21, 2010
Photographs of Jack Salvatori, the British Valentino
photo courtesy of Ray Holland
Jack Salvatori, possibly in the United States
On having received an envelope mailed to Berkeley, California from Cornwall, England with photographs of the Italo-British filmmaker and actor, Giovanni “Jack” Salvatori.
March 8, 2010
Re-reading Diane Di Prima, in Honor of International Women's Day
Cover of Diane Di Prima's "Memoirs of a Beatnik" (first published in 1969)
San Francisco’s Current Poet Laureate, Diane Di Prima, moves Italian American Identity Above, Below, and Beyond.
February 3, 2010
Frank Capra Films Italian-San Francisco
(agenzia bozzo)
The Italian Cruiser, Libia, at its baptism, November, 11, 1912
Capturing Italy’s encounter with California in Frank Capra’s documentary "La visita dell’ Incrociatore Italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 Novembre 1921"
January 14, 2010
On Guidos, Gramsci, and Irony Deficiency
"Pasquino," by Nicolas Beatrizet (engraving,1550)
Why Italian Americans need to take action, a Pasquinian response to some recent debates.
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