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  WTI Magazine #56    2015 March, 20Author : Kristi Belcamino      Translation by:   I'm proud to be Italian-American so naturally when I sat down to write my first book, Blessed are the Dead, my protagonist had to be, as well. Gabriella Giovanni, the main character in my mystery series, is a second-generation Italian-American newspaper reporter...

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Pat Fiorello, a painting instructor for 10 years at Dunwoody's Spruill Center for the Arts, has come a long way since the time when her second grade teacher soured her on painting by yelling to the class about cleaning up their paints. She's just published "Bella Italia - Italy Through the Eyes of an Artist," a book of more than 80 of her oil and...

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Used, as we are, to study the impact that the American consumer society had on we Italians here in Italy, it is interesting to understand how it influenced our compatriots who had emigrated there in America, and whether and how they have in turn played a role in it. To do so, we are meeting Prof. Simone Cinotto, author of a very interesting book t...

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Please join us at the Italian American Museum, Friday evening, August 28th to hear the true story of how Radio City Music Hall, Art Deco masterpiece, iconic cultural landmark, and New York City's premiere tourist attraction for generations, was saved from demolition. Nearly four decades later and after years of intense research, Rosemary Novellino...

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As Oklahoma City University professor Tracy Floreani learned from her Italian father, whether or not he is considered Caucasian constantly is changing in our culture. At one point in time, Italians, Jews and other lighter-skinned immigrants were not considered "white" strictly because of their heritage.   Read more   Source: htt...

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You are cordially invited to attend a reading of Susan C. Finelli's book, "Behind the Shadows" at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, February 27.   About the book: Born into squalor, Raymond Nasco's quest for wealth and power shrouds two generations with deceit, murder, rape and illicit love.  

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Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, cugino ed erede di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, autore del capolavoro italiano Il gattopardo ha presentato la biografia Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa A Biography Through Images (Alma Books, 2013) lo scorso febbraio 19 alla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU, in conversazione con Antonio Monda.   La biografia, che parte...

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When: Monday, August 4, 2014 — 6 to 7:30 p.m.Where: East Boston Public Library, 265 Bremen Street, East Boston, MA East Boston native Lisa Cappuccio will present her new book "Where's Marianna? Aundi è Marianna?", a book for the entire family, showing a glimpse of life in an Italian immigrant household, while acknowledging the responsibilities, lo...

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Most people, and rightly so, would have thought pepperoni was born in Italy. Although it is hard to say exactly when it was created, it probably popped up in the early 1900s when Italian butcher shops and pizzerias began to flourish on the streets of a burgeoning Italian-American society. Notes food writer and historian John Mariani, who wrote a b...

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Noi, gli italiani. Noi, il popolo che affascina tutto il resto del mondo con la propria storia millenaria. Noi, una presenza importante nel territorio statunitense che negli anni è cresciuta e sta crescendo, apportando a questo continente un valore sociale, economico e culturale. È l'amore per entrambe le terre che ha mosso Umberto Mucci a fondare...

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