There is something endearing about The Show with Vinnie, the purposefully trashy and low-tech MTV talk show, the most recent spin-off of the Jersey Shore reality TV hit.
That slow marathon of 1974 is the one I treasure. I think about it whenever things go wrong, whenever people let me down, whenever I let myself down. And now, 39 years later, this unspeakable thing happens at the Boston Marathon.
The biggest hunger I feel when I watch Cake Boss is not for a piece of cake. It's for a piece of the Valastro clan's sense of connectedness and rapport. I feel like I'm there, in the bakery or in one of their home kitchens, their warmth around me, cajoling me to have one more helping.
I have always had trouble figuring out to which country I belong. I travel regularly to Italy, speak Italian, have Italian friends, but I have always lived in the U.S. I don't really fit in either country.
I was an adopted loaf of white bread in a family of exquisite pastries.
NEW YORK CITY -- Tens of thousands of parade-goers lined up along Fifth Avenue Monday for the 68th annual Columbus Day Parade. The parade, which st...
NEW YORK -- A Japanese artist is inviting the public to have an intimate view of Christopher Columbus high above a hectic intersection in midtown Manh...
Our daughters are proof that life goes on.
It must be stated, and known, that with its conservative and traditional ways of thinking, the Italian-American community -- my own community -- has not always been accepting and understanding of my sexual orientation.
While few people can afford a night at Palazzo Margherita, most can appreciate the sentiment and drive behind what might be considered one of Coppola's greatest works.
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.
In time, Italian food would go from relative obscurity to become the first ethnic cuisine largely adopted and prepared in American homes.
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...
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...
Italian males feel a certain way about haircuts, which is to say they should be cheap at worst, free at best.
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.
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.
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.
CHICAGO — Tearful, angry victims of a $77 million Ponzi scheme that targeted hundreds of often working-class Italian-Americans crowded into a Ch...
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.
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.
FAIRFIELD, N.J. (Associated Press) - A national Italian-American organization based in New Jersey says an MTV reality show that depicts Italian-Americ...
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."
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...
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.
