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Arts - 16 Gennaio 2020

The Day I Stepped into the MoMA and Dreamed of Working in New York

In Italiano In the summer of 2014 I visited New York City for the first time. Back then, I couldn’t imagine that my trip would have been the first step in realizing my biggest dream: to live and work in the Big Apple. During that holiday I went to the Museum of Modern Art and […]

Mediterranean - 11 Settembre 2018

My Memories of Zio Ferdinando: The Spirit in the Stone Walls of Vallemaio

Later in the twentieth century, popular American conceptions of Italy and Italians shaded into more benevolent forms of stereotyping – land of the Renaissance, land of glorious food, romance, and wine, and a neat place to bring the kids. None of these by the way corresponded to the reality of Vallemaio, nor to the thousands of small Southern Italian villages where most Italian-Americans can trace their ancestry

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People - 3 Aprile 2018

As the Columbus Day Debate Rages On, So do the Time-Worn Stereotypes

The number of Italian Americans who hold themselves apart from the Columbus standard bearers is substantial. That we do not have a public voice is not for the lack of trying. There are academics, journalists, and independent scholars pursuing the subject in the form of presentations and publications. Yet, when these folks come together to discuss concerns related to Columbus, or other matters pertinent to Italian Diaspora studies, the mainstream media is nowhere to be found.

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New York - 7 Marzo 2018

Rossi’s Deli: the Highest Italian Culinary Standards in Hudson Valley

“People come from as far as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, way upstate New York, Canada, and of course Italy, where our rosticceria’s reputation has made the newspapers or has been spread by word of mouth,” says Signor Rossi. “A typical remark runs like this: ‘I came here from Brooklyn because of the good food and the good people – like it used to be when I was young.’”

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New York - 29 Agosto 2017

A Bridge or a Day by Any Other Name

The reaction to events in Charlottesville, VA has brought about an opportunity to re-visit how the United States has honored historical figures who are not necessarily the virtuous figures many had assumed. This has led to rally cries to tear down the statues, end the parades, or rename the days as we come to understand it is not just the feet of the statues that are made of clay.

Marco De Martino

People - 3 Marzo 2017

Goodbye Marco, Talented Journalist and an All-Italian Dad in NYC

Marco De Martino was a passionate journalist. He was very much into the unconventional twists in stories. He loved to dig deep in interviews and discover details which could unveil the interviewee, and bring their truth to light. With my friend I shared "parallel" lives: married to two American women in love with Italy, Marco and I became good friends when we had turned into Italian daddies in New York.

Writer Elena Attala-Perazzini signing copies of her book at the presentation in New York

English - 14 Dicembre 2014

Stories of Italians in America, from Oriana Fallaci to those who went “Away from us”

Two books by Elena Attala-Perazzini, writer and former assistant of Oriana Fallaci, were presented in New York. One is an autobiographical novel about the experience of the author with the famous journalist Fallaci in New York, the other mixes truth and fiction to tell, with multiple voices, the stories of the Italians who chose America (leggi in Italiano)

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