by Rosario Iaconis | Feb 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
[The following essay was published in the NY Daily News on 14 February 2026] What is the perfect Valentine’s Day movie? Why, Rio Bravo, of course. According to Quentin Tarantino: “There are certain movies that you hang out with the characters so much that they...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Feb 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
With colder temps comes thoughts of colder climates—the state of Alaska, for example. Never visited, but it’s on my (ice?) bucket list. Why Alaska? Well, everyone knows Mt. McKinley—or, rather, its original Indigenous name of Denali (“the tall...
by John Mancini | Feb 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Last October, the Commission for Social Justice, an arm of the Sons and Daughters of Italy, tried to distribute positive image material to New York City libraries in celebration of Italian History Month. Two Manhattan libraries considered the material...
by John Mancini | Feb 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Giglio Festival Yesterday I read about an Italian American neighborhood that was the original Little Italy in New York City. No, not Mulberry Street in lower Manhattan but East Harlem above 96th Street. Today, both those areas are “Italian” by the skin of their...
by John Mancini | Jan 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Wall Street Journal had an article on “The Distortion of American Studies,” a report on how academia accentuates the negative in American history. They referred to issues of American Quarterly magazine published by Johns Hopkins University, considered the...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Jan 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
In my last blog, “Here’s to the Ladies,” I wrote about Italian American female singers from Chicago, past and present. Since then, I came across a 1979 article by Jack Newfield (1938-2004), the legendary reporter who covered stories in the Village...
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