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10 By Tom Acitelli 8/29/11 8:56am

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Giuseppe Garibaldi, formerly of Staten Island. (Photo: nndb.com)

Explaining All the Italian-Americans in New York

In November 1853, a 46-year-old candle-maker set sail from Staten Island for Europe, where he had been one of the most famous soldiers since the fall of Napoleon 40 years before. Giuseppe Garibaldi was already one-half on his way to becoming “the Hero of Two Worlds” of legend, as he had the previous decade fought for Uruguayan independence in South America. His fighting on behalf of his native soil, however, had not gone so spectacularly. Read More

By Sam Chandan 7/21/11 8:52am

the lead indicator

Blitt - Chandan

Lessons for the U.S. in the Italy Crisis

SWITZERLAND—Europe’s intractable sovereign debt crisis engulfed Italy with surprising speed last week, forcing the adoption of $56 billion in austerity measures that are projected to bring the country’s budget into balance in 2014.

Once again, European leaders are working to contain the crisis, which has only now spilled over from the peripheral economies to one of the Continent’s largest. Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/28/10 10:02pm

Art and Sculpture

Art Star Gives Milan The Finger — In Statue Form

Thanks to artist Maurizio Cattelan — the prankster artist and sculpter who splits his time between the East Village and Italy — an 11-meter installation of a severed hand with its middle finger firmly raised is currently placed in front of the Milan Stock Exchange. The bird-flipping effigy is called "L.O.V.E."

The decision to direct such a blunt Read More

By Jason Horowitz 8/28/08 1:42am

The Other ‘Democrats’ on Democratic Unity

DENVER--How fractious is Italy’s political left?

Senator Francesco Rutelli, former candidate for prime minister in Italy, who is attending the Democratic National Convention, said Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton provided a valuable lesson in unity for him and his fellow Italian politicians.

“This is one of the important lessons America gives us,” said Rutelli, speaking to Read More

By Felix Gillette 11/16/07 11:11pm

Come Si Dice “Strike”…?

Italy's screenwriters, acting in solidarity with their American counterparts, are threatening to strike, according to Variety...

"Prompted by their overseas WGA colleagues, Italy's screenwriters are rattling sabers and threatening strike action over new media residuals," the magazine reports. "TV scribe Andrea Purgatori, who is the screenwriters' rep within Italian artistic copyright association SIAE is sounding Read More

By Ann Marlowe 8/21/06 12:00am

Single Housewives Don’t Have Hubby, Kids; Homemade Sorbet? Yes!

Overlooked in the culture wars, a new phenomenon has been emerging: domesticity without family, or with family lite. I’m thinking of my friends who have elaborate, Martha Stewart–like (though not Martha-inspired) domestic situations, either without husbands, or children, or both. You could call it housewifery by choice. It used to be that women married for Read More

By George Gurley 8/07/06 12:00am

George and Hilly

DR. SELMAN: Good to see you. What’s up?

HILLY: Nothing. DR. SELMAN: Last time you were here, Hilly was about to go to Rome. HILLY: It was fun! It wasn’t anything like when we went to Rome, because George wasn’t there and I was with work people, and the first couple nights we were actually Read More

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