by John Mancini | Jan 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Since our perspective is Italic, I assembled a list of notable paesani who made a splash in 2020, that sobering and contentious year. Their talents ran the gamut from entertainment to science, but most of them got sucked into the political maelstrom that...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Dec 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last October, Abigail Napp, an editor at La Cucina Italiana, a national cooking magazine available in Eataly stores in the U.S., asked me to write a “food piece” for Italian Heritage Month. I tried to go beyond the usual simple fare by adding an ingredient...
by John Mancini | Dec 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
I once managed a building in the Jewelry District of Manhattan. It was a truly multi-ethnic building with retail booths and manufacturing. One day, a number of my Jewish tenants complained about sneaker prints on the restroom toilet seats. That was...
by John Mancini | Dec 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
For Christmas Day, the IFC Channel on cable is offering “Christmas with the Family,” broadcasting a string of Mafia movies: Godfather I & II, GoodFellas, and A Bronx Tale. The family alluded to is, of course, any [Italian] crime family. In this...
by John Mancini | Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to accept a lawsuit by the State of Texas against four “swing” states that Texas alleged violated election laws – laws enacted by their own state legislatures. Texas was joined in the suit by...
by John Mancini | Dec 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
A group of students at Brown University in Rhode Island have condemned statues of Caesar Augustus and Marcus Aurelius as White supremacists, and want them removed from campus. The group, Decolonization at Brown (DAB), asserts that the two Italic emperors represent...
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