by John Mancini | Nov 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
One day at college an African American dorm-mate snidely remarked that the Italian Army was a joke in World War II. Those were the days just before The Godfather – book and movies – so the main “embarrassment” Italian Americans had to deal with was Mussolini’s...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Nov 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
In my last blog, I noted how the mainstream media rarely delves into Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s ethnic background. From personal experiences with regular folk, I would guess it’s for the same reasons – that people either consider it unimportant or...
by John Mancini | Nov 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
A gay man accuses Governor Ron DeSantis of luring him into a degrading sex act. That was the plot of the final episode of the Paramount+ cable series The Good Fight, a spin-off of the previously successful broadcast series The Good Wife. Not having watched this...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Nov 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Last week was food, the conclusion of Stanley Tucci’s CNN series, Searching for Italy. This week, it’s national politics via the long-awaited midterms. As I type this blog (Saturday, November 12th), billionaire businessman Rick Caruso, a former Republican...
by John Mancini | Nov 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
The election minestrone is being stirred and some Italian ingredients have reached their boiling point. All of a sudden, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) got so hot that he attacked fellow Dem President Joe Biden just the other day. Seems that Biden is “divorced from...
by Rosario Iaconis | Nov 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
On the home front, her agenda includes constitutional and economic reform — plus a bold infrastructure project that Garibaldi would endorse. Now officially Italy’s Prime Minister Italy’s new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is peripatetic in her pursuit of a more...
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