by John Mancini | Jan 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Little did we know that those Hippies from the 60s would go on to dream up a new America for us when they got older. They were the “counter-culture” at a time when America needed a new direction – away from the pointless Vietnam War and a blind obedience to the...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Jan 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
A New Year (2024) brings with it zero progress on the issue of anti-Italian media bias. Case in point: The NFL. Note the difference in coverage between two quarterbacks: Tommy DeVito of the New York Giants and Joe Flacco of the long-suffering Cleveland Browns. ...
by John Mancini | Dec 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Celebrating New Year’s Day on January 1st is definitely a Roman development. Like so many other facets of our existence, Italy figured large in mastering time. We learned in school that the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Sumerians all studied the heavens and...
by John Mancini | Dec 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Another Christmas Eve has left my wife Rita and me exhausted from all the work. The Feast of the Seven Fishes has become an annual celebration to prove that money is no object and no sea creature is safe from the Italian digestive system. Why must we serve seven...
by John Mancini | Dec 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
The current war in Ukraine seems hauntingly similar to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). That conflict began as a fratricidal war but quickly turned into a contest between Fascism and Communism. Both wars have Russia in common: in 1936 Joseph Stalin’s USSR...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Dec 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
As the Christmas season is upon us, I want to do what American poet Robert Frost did and “take the road less travelled by.” Instead of the usual clichés, enjoyable though they may be (presepi, the Feast of the Seven Fishes, Midnight Mass at St. Peter’s, etc.), I’d...
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