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Sicilian Musicians Fratelli Mancuso: After a 10-Year Absence, Comes Manzàma

Outtake from the film "Il suono di un'isola" by Uliano Paolozzi Balestrini. Editing: Francesca Bracci. Shot in Sutera, Sicily. The experience of migration, of displacement, is a central theme of Manzàma. About midway through the album, the lyrics open up to more universal reflections, in what one Italian critic called "a Mediterranean 'Odyssey' whose protagonists are women and men often abandoned to their tragic destiny." Their cinema experience came with the film The Talented Mister Ripley…then a lot of theater, with Emma Dante, Roberto Andò, Marco Martinelli of the Teatro delle Albe with Rumore di acque….

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Trinacria Company, the American Theater Company Inspired by Sicily

Sometimes it’s easy to claim to be an Italian ‘business’ when you have Italian origins but, being 100% Italian, I can tell you that very often under the Italian cover there is no Italian book at all! What really caught my attention about the company, more than the fact that it’s inspired by South Italy’s traditions and myths (so rich in stories to be told and therefore a perfect source for a theater company) is that it dives right into the direct experience.

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Epicharmus, Pirandello and Sciascia All Tell Us Sicilians Have No Sense of Humor

The emblem for Pirandellian humor is the god Janus who has two faces, one that laughs and one that cries, or as Pirandello said, the face that laughs is laughing at the crying face. And it is the most characteristic form of Sicilian humor embodying the sweet and the sour, the comic and the tragic and seems to emerge from that complex and divided soul that Sicilian share, always flavored with a taste of that italicum acetum (Italian vinegar) that somehow colors everything Sicilian.

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How American Officers Learned “Sicul-english” to Fight the Mafia in the ’60’s

The most pernicious shortcoming of these texts is the characterization of Sicilians as gangsters, devoted to robbing banks, smuggling drugs, and engaging in countless other criminal activities. I see these teaching materials as one more example of the unfair campaign of negative characterization of Sicilians from their arrival to the US. Creating a Sicilian language textbook whose main characters are Sicilian thieves and murderers is simply inexcusable.

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Gabriella Giuntoli, Passionate and Poetic Architect, Savior of Pantelleria

Contrary to conventional wisdom, architecture is not just another trade, and the architect’s value cannot be measured by his or her economic success. There are still a few lyrical designers who feel they have a mission to accomplish, and work to convey their existential philosophy. Gabriella is one of them, an architectural poet and also the individual who has most contributed to save and enhance the island of Pantelleria.

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