“It Never Ends!”

That was activist Manny Alfano’s most often used exclamation.  No truer words were ever said, as we in the Italian heritage business can attest.  Anti-defamation is the last thing we feel comfortable doing.  Yet, the media set our agenda decades ago. Manny passed away...

ALL “YALE” ITALIANS IN CONNECTICUT!

In most peoples’ minds, the state of Connecticut has very WASPy (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) associations: Yale University; “lace-curtain” wealthy families; and a Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (courtesy of Mark Twain, who once lived in...

Juneteenth or the Umpteenth?

Where will it all end?  Everyone is trying hard to make Euro-Americans an accursed race.  We invented slavery, stole everything from its rightful owners, and rig every system in our favor.  If you don’t believe that, just ask your grandkids.  This is...

ALL THAT JAZZ

Recently, I did a ZOOM presentation sponsored by I AM Books in Boston on my 2015 book, Bebop, Swing and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience.  The book, to which local Chicago writer David Anthony Witter also contributed, documents the amazing,...

Top Gun Nancy

If I had to pick the top gun in Washington today it would be, hands down, Nancy Pelosi. By every metric, House Speaker Pelosi is the keystone of the Biden Administration.  Not only does she have the president’s legislative back, she is the narrator-in-chief for...

War in Europe

The war in Ukraine has become a touch & go situation for the West.  The war conjures up all our nightmares:  Stalin reincarnated in a “democratic” Russia, Europeans killing each other over borders, refugee crises, entangling alliances, fears of nuclear...