by Rosario Iaconis | Oct 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
As Italy’s prospective Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, wades through the profiles of political figures who will comprise her cabinet, she has come up against the galaxy-class egos of her coalition partners, Matteo Salvini (Lega) and Silvio Berlusconi (Forza Italia)....
by Bill Dal Cerro | Oct 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Week Two of CNN’s Searching for Italy, hosted by the ambulatory actor Stanley Tucci, took us to Sardegna (aka Sardinia), the large island off Italy’s coast frequently described with adjectives like rugged, mountainous, and implacable. Or as, Tucci’s...
by John Mancini | Oct 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
The city of Los Angeles is in the middle of a mayoral election pitting two Democrats against each other. One candidate is a Black woman, her opponent is a White man – or is he? During a televised debate last week, the moderator summed up the contest as between...
by Rosario Iaconis | Oct 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
The never-ending battle over Columbus Day brings to mind the world’s second oldest profession. As Harry S. Truman noted: “My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Oct 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Part Two of Season Two of CNN’s Searching for Italy began on Sunday, October 9th, the day before Columbus Day. And the first episode was auspicious: the series’ star and tour guide, actor Stanley Tucci, visited the ancestral region of both sets of his...
by John Mancini | Oct 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Christopher Columbus was a deluded man – thank God! He convinced himself that he could island-hop his way to Asia. And many fellow Italians provided the maps that fed his delusion. It started with his own experience as a young sailor venturing out into the...
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