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REALITY CHECK FOR CUOMO & GIULIANI

" SORRY ANDREW I LIKE YOU BUT I AM NOBODY'S AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOL " Want to hear a contrarian view about two well known Italian American politicians. If so read on. If not don’t. You will be surprised how different these views are than the conventional “wisdom” you get in The Times and elsewhere. Both Ru… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 20, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

SENATOR SAVINO’S BRILLIANT HISTORIC LETTER

' Read my lips $11.5 MILLION or NO Italian language Advance Placement ' New York State Senator Diane Savino understands. Do the rest of us ? Too often we Italian Amreicans go begging cup in hand to those we consider our “betters” as proven by our subservient attitudes, hoping our “oppressors” will n… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 17, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

CALANDRA AT 30 WHERE TO NOW ??

CHANCELLOR GOLDSTEIN WHAT ABOUT CALANDRA'S FUTURE .... Dr. Anthony Tamburri and Dr. Joseph Scelsa are two very different personalities but what they share is far more important their pivotal roles in the existence and development of The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. Dr. Scelsa the former Dea… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 16, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

L'Amore

L'amore è passione, lotta intestina tra sangue e profumo. Pensiero e distrazione. Non credo di avere mai avuto, neanche per un solo attimo, la voglia di lasciare questo campo di battaglia, neanche quando ho pensato che sarebbe stato giusto finire. E' stato pensiero. Amore, mi ripeto ad alta voce quando varchi la porta di casa e ti illumina solo il filo sottile delle candele. Amore, mi ripeto ad alta voce quando vai via e lasci i tuoi profumi, i tuoi umori ed i tuoi suoni. Amore, mi ripeto sotto… Continue

Added by Rossana del Zio on November 15, 2009 at 9:48pm — No Comments

WATER ON THE MOON CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

NEW YORK TIMES FRONT PAGE SATURDAY ........ .. DR. ANTHONY COLAPRETE If you have a copy of The New York Times from this past Saturday, November 14, 2009, SAVE it. It will become a collector’s item one of the most important maybe the most important Times front page ever not for the “big” story that overwhelm… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 15, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

i bei pensieri

Sai Rossana, hai posteggiato dei bei pensieri ed anche belle poesia. Mi sono piacuiti moltissimi. Continue

Added by Patricia Rubino Sandler on November 15, 2009 at 8:48pm — No Comments

MICHELE DAMIANI e la sua "LA MEMORIA PRESTATA"

Presentazione del libro di versi e disegni del pittore pugliese Michele Damiani all'Università di Bari.

copertina del libro

Martedì 17 novembre, nell'Aula Magna del Rettorato presso il Palazzo Ateneo di Bari, il pittore Michele Damiani presenterà il suo volume di versi e schizzi “La memoria prestata” , edito dalla Progedit. Introdurrà… Continue

Added by LEONARDO BASILE on November 15, 2009 at 5:46pm — No Comments

MANLIO TRIGGIANI e le "FAVOLE PUGLIESI"

Sessanta parole e sessanta illustrazioni per sessanta vecchie favole pugliesi

Copertina del libro Favole Pugliesi

“FAVOLE PUGLIESI” è il nuovo libro di Manlio Triggiani, edito dalla Progedit di Gino Dato, che propone frammenti di saggezza popolare -per lo più dimentic… Continue

Added by LEONARDO BASILE on November 13, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

ENJOY THE RESURRECTION

ARTURO'S NEWEST WORK "RESURRECTION" IN BRONZE & STAINLESS STEEL Renowned Italian sculptor Arturo DiModica has done it again. His newest work being unveiled here today in i-Italy, The Resurrection. It could not be more different than his most famous work Charging Bull. Featuring an Angel in bronze and the… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 12, 2009 at 4:14pm — No Comments

IMAGINE THE ALBERTI SLEIGH

SO CLOSE SO CLOSE SO CLOSE BUT WILL ITALIANS MAKE IT HAPPEN Open your mind. All the way. Bring it here to Bowling Green. Larry Auriana and ALL of you ITALIAN Americans. To witness in your mind what can be this Christmas where Pietro Alberti first met this new land. Long ago when he could not IMAGINE how… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 11, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

HOW FRANK SCIAME SAVED CHRISTMAS 2004

FRANK SCIAME SAVED CHRISTMAS ...... 2004 CHRISTMAS TREE 30,000+ LIGHTS Gather round girls and boys of all ages. I have a wonderful Christmas story to tell you That gives us hope for this Christmas still. Back in fall 2004 I met a very successful and acclaimed Italian American builder Frank Sciame at an… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 10, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Spence on Creeping Totalitarianism

"A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights -- which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state." - -- Gerry Spence - Lawyer and author - Source: Give Me Liberty, 1998 Continue

Added by Robert A. Williams on November 10, 2009 at 2:56am — No Comments

YES WORLD’S BEST BAGELS ARE ITALIAN

VISIONS OF THE PREFECT ITALIAN BAGEL Let the Word go forth. In a contest between Jewish bagels and Italian bagels We won ! Heavenly choir of Angels sing !! To be slightly more specific the Bagel Hole of all places in Park Slope, Brooklyn, was declared the WINNER as the best bagels in the bagel capital of… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 9, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

INCIPIT DALL'ITALIA ALL'AMERICA - IL MIO LIBRO, LA MIA EMIGRAZIONE

Ci sono stati dei sogni che si sono rincorsi nell'arco della mia vita. Sogni ricorrenti, bellissimi, ma così impossibili che potessero riflettere una realtà futura e neppure remota, che ho lasciato riempissero le mie notti fatte di inconsci viaggi fantasiosi. Un grattacielo solitario e di fronte il mare, la mia casa, persone che appartengono alla mia vita ed altre sconosciute, eventi del quotidiano ed un senso di pienezza ad ogni mio risveglio. Solo oggi, dopo anni, ricollego quel sogno ad un mi… Continue

Added by Rossana del Zio on November 8, 2009 at 2:55pm — No Comments

MEZZA LUNA

Dalla finestra di casa, dietro una tenda aperta per caso, è spuntata con la sua luce. Magnetica, come sempre, e non ho potuto fare a meno di affacciarmi. Ho aperto la finestra ed il vento mi ha violentemente investita. Così lei, mezza luna, è scomparsa dietro i rami colmi di foglie mosse dal vento ed un gioco di luci e di ombre ha animato la scena. Scompariva e riappariva e mi piaceva questo suo giocare a nascondino con me. Mi è sembrato un po' di rivivere questi ultimi giorni passati ed il nost… Continue

Added by Rossana del Zio on November 6, 2009 at 11:15pm — No Comments

TIME FOR THE ITALIAN CHRISTMAS MIRACLE !

2004 CHRISTMAS ABOVE BOWLING GREEN ... ITALIAN FLAG ATOP THE TREE Watch snowflakes fall Amid all this splendor Crowds gather Buildings glisten Children caroling Santa reigns above in his dazzling silver coach it’s Pietro Alberti’s Sleigh gaily harnessed to Arturo’s Italian Bull Christmas tre… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 6, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

The Love of Justice

Today an Italian court convicted 23 American state terrorists involved in the CIA's kidnap and rendition/torture program. Twenty-two of the convicted American state terrorists were immediately sentenced to five years in jail. One other convicted American state terrorist, Milano CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady, was given the harshest sentence: eight years in prison. "I am not guilty. I am only responsible for following an order I received from my superiors," said Lady who was quoted by the… Continue

Added by Robert A. Williams on November 5, 2009 at 1:32am — No Comments

MAGICAL CHRISTMAS AT BOWLING GREEN – AND THE MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN IN AMERICA

ALBERTI SLEIGH AT BOWLING GREEN .... MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN IN AMERICA Words have Power. We all know that all our lives. Even if we sometimes forget. Or ignore the fact. Language is the most powerful force in our civilization. Words are at the core of everything any of us believe in. Words drive revol… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 4, 2009 at 10:45pm — No Comments

WHERE ARE THE ITALIAN JUDGES ?

YOUR CHOICE TAKE A "CRUISE" ON THE TITANICO ....... OR FOLLOW DIANE SAVINO PRESCRIPT ...... all important CHRISTMAS At Bowling Green - Part 2 shortly next post ! NY State Senator Diane Savino is an Italian American Warrior. God we sure need more Italian American Warriors. Why must there be so f… Continue

Added by ARTHUR PICCOLO on November 3, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

ELOGIO DELL’EBBREZZA ma anche IL MITO E IL SENSO EROICO

La poesia di Angelo Lippo e la pittura di Nicola Andreace a Monteiasi, domenica 8 novembre, nell’Ex Casa Comunale

Ottobre piovono libri. I luoghi della lettura

Nell’ambito del progetto “Ottobre piovono libri. I luoghi della lettura" , promosso dal Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e dal "Centro per il Libro e la Lettura… Continue

Added by LEONARDO BASILE on November 1, 2009 at 8:41pm — No Comments