by Rosario Iaconis | Sep 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
The following letter was sent to and published by the WSJ on September 11, 2024. Clearly, the media needs a continual education in why the mafia genre is so successful. It has more to do with defamation than art.
by John Mancini | Sep 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Before there was an Italic Institute I had fun with an imaginary organization named Istituto di Past’Asciutta (ah-SHOO-tah). The name was even fun to pronounce, try it! Literally the Institute of “dried paste,” the term covered all your boxed or bagged...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Sep 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Apologies to General MacArthur: “Old mob shows never die—and they never fade away, either.” In case you hadn’t noticed, the American media has ‘predictably’ gone gaga over the 25th anniversary of HBO’s The Sopranos, David...
by John Mancini | Sep 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
On September 3, 1943, the Kingdom of Italy signed an “armistice” with the Allies. Negotiations had been going on secretly for months with meetings in neutral Portugal by some Italian military leaders under orders of King Victor Emmanuel III. Mussolini had been...
by John Mancini | Aug 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” -George Orwell, from his book 1984 These words are not a riddle or an abstract concept. For those of us who take pride in the millennial contributions of Italy to...
by John Mancini | Aug 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
I wish I knew how young Italian Americans think. Admittedly, I grew up an oddball. My immigrant father spoke with a heavy accent and was raised under Fascism, coming here in 1930 at age 18. My American side was Italian American to the core: the old...
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