by Bill Dal Cerro | Mar 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812 reported: “We have met the enemy and they are ours”. I’m sure everyone has heard this famous quote. As any self-respecting (i.e., self-educated) Italian American will tell you, it certainly applies...
by John Mancini | Mar 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
I had a minor procedure done a few weeks ago by a Dr. Baciagalupo. For those of a certain generation this name evokes pleasant memories of the Abbott & Costello television comedy series of 1952-54. I was a faithful viewer of the reruns as a kid. The...
by John Mancini | Feb 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
He was called the “Sword of Rome” in his time, but a man forgotten in popular history. He should rank among the greatest military leaders that Italy produced, up there with Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and Garibaldi. Marcus Claudius Marcellus created the Italy...
by Rosario Iaconis | Feb 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Italy’s voters, though, keep strengthening her hand. Unlike Claude Rains’s Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca, President Macron does not envision the “beginning of a beautiful friendship” with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Rather, the Gallic leader has tried to...
by John Mancini | Feb 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
It was on February 19, 1942 that the Second World War came for Italian Americans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 making many in our community “enemy aliens.” The order primarily targeted Japanese Americans who lived on the West...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Feb 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m two weeks late to it but February 5th was officially World Nutella Day. I know: We need to detoxify the media – and our fellow Americans – from their addictive notion that Italian culture simply means “something edible.” But, just as African...
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