Brooklyn developer Gino Vitale adapts the centuries old edicole sacre (devotional shrines) to his newly constructed buildings.
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In an expanded effort to counter the Mafia's extortionist activities in Sicily, a food fair goes on tour to major Italian cities. The outdoor stands, which will feature Sicilian specialty foods, are run by those businesses that have refused to pay a notorious illegal tax, the "pizzo". The organizers eventually hope to bring the gastronomic fair overseas. -
Celebrating St. Joseph in Brooklyn and some thoughts on lived religion.
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Italy's top female singer-songwriter Carmen Consoli to play concert halls in New York, DC and Boston
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The crackdown on Mafia shows Italy at its best. Southern Italian cities, though plagued by many serious problems, no longer seem to be suitable places for a good mobster to hang out. That, at least, is progress.
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At least 80 people have been arrested in a major crackdown on the Mafia carried out by Italian and American law enforcement agencies.
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Photographs by Blaise Tobia are on exhibit at the Italian American Museum: faces, costumes, and contrasts of the feast of the Holy Cross of Calatafini
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“The cruelties to which the child slaves of Sicily have been subjected are as bad as anything reported of the cruelties of Negro slavery.” Booker Taliaferro Washington: “The Man Farthest Down”
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In a social club in Brooklyn, the lost poetry of a Sicilian contadino is heard again.
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Just a few decades ago Halloween in Italy was merely the name of an American holiday, a sort of Carnevale. Little by little Halloween’s popularity has grown, probably due to the influence of American movies ... But in all the Italian regions in the days between October 31st and the day of Saint Martin (November 11th) there has been – from time immemorial – the folkloristic custom to celebrate the juxtaposition of life and death with numerous traditions
