Italian Americans

Interview with Family Corleone Author, Ed Falco

Jeff Rivera | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Ed-Falco, Mario Puzo, The Godfather, The Family Corleone, Ed Falco, Italian-American-Fiction, Italian-Americans, Video, Books News
Jeff Rivera

In my interview with the acclaimed author, Falco discuss his own internal battles with the violence in the book, his concerns about perpetuating stereotypes of Italian Americans and what it was like stepping into the footsteps of one of America's greatest storytellers, the late Mario Puzo.

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Italian Cooking

Will Levitt | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Pizza, Thesis Project, Thesis-Project, Italian Culture, Italian-Americans, Little Italy, Italian Cooking, Italian Food, New York City, College News
Will Levitt

In time, Italian food would go from relative obscurity to become the first ethnic cuisine largely adopted and prepared in American homes.

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Is 'Brooklyn 11223' The New 'Jersey Shore'?

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Gravesend, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Italian-Americans, Tv Replay, Brooklyn 11223, Bay Ridge, New York City, TV News

On the Series Premiere of "Brooklyn 11223" (Mon., 11 p.m. ET on Oxygen) viewers were introduced to the delights of Gravesend, Brooklyn and two rival c...

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John Celock

Rush Limbaugh Asked To Apologize For 'Greaseball' Remark

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Rush Limbaugh Jon Corzine, Mf Global Collapse, Rush Limbaugh, Mf Global Bankruptcy, Jon Corzine, Italian American One Voice Coalition, Video, Rush Limbaugh Italian Americans, Rush Limbaugh Grease Ball, Bias, MF Global, Jon Corzine Italian American, Italian-Americans, Media Bias, Politics News

An Italian-American advocacy group is slamming Rush Limbaugh for making an on-air ethnic slur in December, now demanding that the conservative talk sh...

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Pound for Pound, It Was a Costly Cut

Charlie Carillo | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: London, Funerals, Haircuts, Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Shopping, Italian-Americans, Blow Dryer, Barbers, New York News
Charlie Carillo

Italian males feel a certain way about haircuts, which is to say they should be cheap at worst, free at best.

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An Offer He'll Have to Refuse

Charlie Carillo | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Chris Christie, Godfather, Mario Cuomo, Charles Lachman, Italian-Americans, Goodfellas, Grover Cleveland, White House, Organized Crime, Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie Presidency, New York News
Charlie Carillo

This political love-fest between Governor Chris Christie and these people begging him to run for president is going to end abruptly when the big guy realizes something that others have realized before him.

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Crossing The Seas To Make A Legacy

Dr. Caroline Cicero | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Frank Cicero, Chicago, James Birren, Immigrants, Ellis Island, Guided Autobiography, Waldensian, Italian Protestants, Immigration, Genealogy, Italian Americans, Religion News
Dr. Caroline Cicero

Thanks to my bold immigrant ancestors and the legacies they left behind, I have had the freedom to choose whom to marry as well as where to worship and how to raise my children.

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The Greatest Christmas Tree Story You'll Ever Read

Charlie Carillo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christmas 2010, Italian-Americans, Bargaining, Christmas Eve, Christmas Trees, Family, New York News
Charlie Carillo

We always waited until Christmas Eve to get our tree. My father liked being in a strong bargaining position, knowing that whatever the tree salesman couldn't unload would be worthless to him the next day.

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Chicago Swindler Gets 23 Years For $77M Ponzi Scheme

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Italian Community, Paul Darrah, Frank Castaldi, White Collar Crime, Frank Castaldi Ponzi Scheme, Ponzi Scheme, Chicago Italians, Italian Americans, Chicago Crime, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Tearful, angry victims of a $77 million Ponzi scheme that targeted hundreds of often working-class Italian-Americans crowded into a Ch...

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La Situazione: Bella Figura on the Jersey Shore

Vinnie Rotondaro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reality TV, Mike-the-Situation, New Jersey, Mtv, Italian-Americans, Fist Pumping, Bella Figura, Mtv Jersey Shore, Entertainment News
Vinnie Rotondaro

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that not only is the Situation the best thing on the Jersey Shore, he's the best human being on the show.

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My Problem with Jersey Shore

Michael Rugnetta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goodfellas, Reality TV, Jersey Shore, The Godfather, New Jersey, The Sopranos, Italian-Americans, Mtv Jersey Shore, Entertainment News
Michael Rugnetta

Good programming provides us with built-in commentary through nuanced connections between a subculture and our broader culture. Jersey Shore frustrates me because there is absolutely none of this commentary.

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Jersey Shore: The Apotheosis of Reality

Simon Maxwell Apter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Television, Reality TV, Jersey Shore, Italian-Americans, New Jersey, Mtv, Mtv Jersey Shore, Entertainment News
Simon Maxwell Apter

A month into the show, I must admit: I absolutely adore MTV's Jersey Shore. After all, Jersey Shore represents the triumph of the American Dream, pure and simple.

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"Jersey Shore," MTV Reality Show, Should Be Canceled Says Italian-American Group

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reality Television, New Jersey Beach House, Jersey Shore Reality Show, Reality TV, UNICO National, Mtv, Jersey Shore MTV, Guidos, Italian-Americans, Mtv Jersey Shore, Jersey-Shore, Video, New York News

FAIRFIELD, N.J. (Associated Press) - A national Italian-American organization based in New Jersey says an MTV reality show that depicts Italian-Americ...

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The Rise of the 'Guido'

Aviva Yael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guidos, Jersey Shore, Mtv, Slidepoll, Growing Up Gotti, Italian-Americans, Victoria Gotti, Los Angeles News
Aviva Yael

If you haven't seen Jersey Shore yet, you need to get on the couch and witness America's most recent obsession: the subculture of the self-proclaimed "Guido."

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Jersey Shore Fights "Jersey Shore"

AP | GEOFF MULVIHILL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Snooki, Jersey Shore, Seaside Heights, UNICO National, Stereotypes, Mtv, Jerse Shore Show, New Jersey, Italian-Americans, Snooki Punch, New York News

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — On MTV's reality television show "Jersey Shore," the Beachcomber Bar is a place where the clothes are skimpy and punches can...

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Reconceiving Columbus Day

Jim Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Casimiro Barela, Legal Holidays, Columbus, Denver Columbus Day Parade, Columbus Day, Native Americans, American Indians, Italian-Americans, The New World, Denver, Denver News
Jim Thomas

Columbus Day can be an Americas day, plural not possessive, and can honor the original peoples of the hemisphere as it reminds us, its current peoples, that we share more than a land mass, we share a future.

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Seaside Heights, "Jersey Shore" Town, Distances Itself From MTV Show

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reality TV, Jersey Shore, Italian-Americans, New Jersey, Seaside Heights, Reality Show, Jersey Shore Show, Mtv Jersey Shore, New York News

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — The New Jersey beach town that's home to MTV's "Jersey Shore" is trying to distance itself from the controversy surround...

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Jersey Shore

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italian-Americans, Mtv Jersey Shore, Cartoon, New York News
Jeff Danziger

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