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...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
The final episode of Stanley Tucci’s CNN series Searching for Italy ** took us to Liguria and showcased its “rugged environment,” evidenced by God-like drone shots of the “angularity of its landscapes.” The episode’s opening scene...
by John Mancini | Oct 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Halloween is upon us and our thoughts go back to one of the best Draculas of our youth: Christopher Lee. Christopher Lee as Dracula in nine films Sure, Bela Lugosi was the original but he had a black & white existence on screen. Blood isn’t blood...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Oct 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the latest episode of CNN’s Searching for Italy, actor Stanley Tucci continued his journey in southern Italy with a stop in Puglia (POOL-ya), located, as he says, “in the heel of Italy’s boot…with 500 miles of coastline and 60 million olive trees,...
by John Mancini | Oct 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 1864, during his invasion of the Confederate South, General Sherman famously wrote to President Abraham Lincoln: “I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah …” Whether Sherman knew it or not he was mimicking a similar gesture performed four years...
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