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Fictional Italians: Ten Hall of Fame Entries

Marc Edward DiPaolo

Here they are! My favorite Italian and Italian-American Fictional Characters. This Hall of Fame will have 10 new inductees each year. Like the Oscars, these inductees are for...

Love Costs: Filipinos in Italy and the Movie, "Milan"

Laura E. Ruberto

What better place than Italy for immigrants to find both a job and a lover?

Napoli ritrovata a New York

Simona Frasca

La proiezione napoletana di "Closing Time", il documentario della giovane filmaker Veronica Diaferia sulla chiusura del negozio di Rossi a Mulberry Street, ha regalato alla città..

IBLA Grand Prize. How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Through Sicily

Eleonora Mazzucchi

The town of Ragusa Ibla, Sicily, where the IBLA Grand Prize is annually held, can add "talent scout" to its list of functions. The 2007 international winners and finalists of the...

The Immigrants’ Hardships and Good Fortune as Told through Song, Photos, and Narration

Anthony J. Tamburri

NYU’s Casa Italiana "Zerilli-Merimò". A review of the multi-media performance of Compagnie delle Acque, a socially committed musical quartet of piano, guitar, accordion, and...

Una stella nell'universo dei campioni

Alberto Caruana

Andrei Howe Besozzi. In molti lo definiscono l’erede di Carl Lewis. Il talento è giovane e a parere degli addetti ai lavori le potenzialità per migliorare sono tante. Ai...

A New Wing of Agusta-Westland Helicopter Factory in Philadelphia

Letizia Airos Soria

Last Tuesday, I was at the inauguration of the new Augusta Westland plant in Philadelphia, where about 30 AW139 a year will be built. It’s a 30 million dollar investment for 10...

The Prince of Grand Street

Michael Anstendig

The small store is abuzz with activity. Two phones ring non-stop, the cash register clangs, four employees cut, slice and wrap orders of cheese and cured meats and customers are...

Eduitalia. Trading Italian Culture

Lucia Grillo

In occasion of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, we met with Emmelina De Feo, the USA Manager for Eduitalia: “Our main goal is to disseminate...

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

Joey Skee

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

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