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People - 4 Dicembre 2017

Monongah’s Italian Miners: Mistreated in Life and Death

Nativist culture in West Virginia, oral traditions among 19th Century Italian migrants and faulty US research made difficult reporting and commemorating the centennial of a 1907 West Virginia disaster that killed 169 Italian miners - made difficult in the US, as well as Italy. Since that time, Italian commemoration entrepreneurs echoed myths, created non-facts and embellished tragedy without consulting research and transformed a US-Italian tragedy into farce.

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New York - 9 Ottobre 2017

Columbus, Our Lady of Loreto and the Ironies of Italian American History

Ironically Columbus Day began as an attempt to reconcile the new immigrants with Americans and even Native Americans. A final irony: as the Italian American community gathers to celebrate and march past Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Ave, the beautiful neo-Renaissance Our Lady of Loreto church in Brooklyn, built by Italian emigrants in 1906 in their “spare” time, is being torn down.

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People - 26 Settembre 2017

Hands off Christopher Columbus: Alberto Milani’s Italian American Muster

Alberto Milani leads the most important Italian American Chamber of Commerce in the United States, and declares to La Voce di New York that he has been defending the Columbus Day and the Genoese explorer’s statue, which has been threatened with being torn down in Manhattan: "Colombus's biography also has some dark passages, but he first believed in the American dream"

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New York - 21 Luglio 2017

Giglio Feast: Real Brooklyn’s Italian Passion

Siamo stati a Williamsburg per un video sugli appassionati portatori dell’altissimo (e pesantissimo) Giglio con il Santo di Nola che da oltre cento anni rinnova una tradizione campana a New York

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Arts - 18 Maggio 2017

How Wally Lamb’s Italian-ness Inspires Everything He Writes

Known for featuring strong women characters, spotlighting mental illness and grabbing titles from songs he loves, the mainstream press never seems to notice one strong theme: Lamb’s Italian background.

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Arts - 2 Maggio 2017

Joe Zangara’s Hurtful Humanity Comes to In Scena! 2017

Radical ideas, heartbreaking story and a quest for redemption: Ernesto Orrico comes back to In Scena! and this time brief the hurtfully human story of Joe Zangara to New York's theatres. On stage on May 4th and 7th, this show will bring take you on a journey inside Zangara's head.

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Food & Wine - 28 Aprile 2017

Italian-American cuisine: due chef a confronto

Al ristorante italiano "Rafele", per una sera, la chef star Sandra Lee e il cuoco pluripremiato Raffaele Ronca hanno cucinato una cena a due. Amici da quasi 15 anni, i due chef ci hanno raccontato la storia di una grande amicizia nata ai fornelli e la passione per la cucina italiana

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Arts - 22 Aprile 2017

In the Name of Columbus

Originally meant to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the voyage that brought Christopher Columbus to discover America, two clocks designed by the Ligurian architect Renzo Piano had gone missing. Now they have been recovered and are the focus of a movement to commemorate the Italian navigator.

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Arts - 18 Aprile 2017

Serpico Part II: A Documentary about an Icon

Antonino D'Ambrosio's new documentary reveals the man behind the myth more than 40 years after the maverick cop exposed massive corruption in the NYPD. "Frank Serpico" explores the performative aspects of its protagonist's character, while highlighting the Italian-America side of the story.

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English - 15 Gennaio 2017

The Same Old Italian American Story: A Bronx Tale

Queens Marie, a sketch comedy character created by Lauren Logiudice, is an Italian American dashing diva from the boroughs of NYC. Here she reviews Chazz Palminteri's "A Bronx Tale: The Musical", directed by Robert De Niro. "There really aren’t stories out there for Italian Americans that don’t involve the same old: mafia, spaghetti, and doo-wop."

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