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July 18, 2010
Panto Remembered
Pete Panto, 1939
A new book about the New York City waterfront recalls the Italian-American fight against organized crime.
June 21, 2010
My Italian American Museum
Joseph Sciorra
Italian immigrant woman, circa 1925. Schmidt-Lorraine Studios, Chicago.
Entering into a conversation with objects.
June 1, 2010
Building Community, the Brooklyn Way
Joseph Sciorra
KAVES, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, April 14, 2010.
Meet KAVES, band leader, tattoo artist, community activist.
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.
February 24, 2010
Return of the Italian-American Voldemort
An update from Rita Skeeter, gossipy reporter for the Daily Prophet.
February 23, 2010
Ricordando Vincenzo Ancona
Martha Cooper
Vincenzo Ancona, Castel del Golfo Social Club, Brooklyn, 1987.
Poet, visual artist, raconteur, singer, immigrant laborer, friend.
February 9, 2010
Found Gangster Poem
The following lines come from an email sent to i-italy.org editors who, in turn, shared it with me. The words are quoted verbatim and in the order in which they were written, but...
February 4, 2010
Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America
The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.
January 25, 2010
Italianità alternativa
Joseph Sciorra
John Giorno reciting at the Calandra Institute, October 6, 2009.
Co-authored by Rosangela Briscese and Joseph Sciorra.
The Italian-American “experience” is anything but singular.
January 20, 2010
Real Italians
Joseph Sciorra, circa 1980.
A social scientist’s take on guidos, prominenti, and intellectual inquiry.
January 3, 2010
Wise Men Melchior and Balthazar banned in northern Italian city.
A story about racism in contemporary Italy so absurd it could be true.
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