Creating a Future: Artist Mauro Balletti Reflects on Five Decades with Pop Icon Mina
In a rare and intimate interview with Elio Iannacci, visual artist Mauro Balletti reflects on his five-decade-plus collaboration with Mina—the iconic, reclusive Italian singer—whose image he helped reshape through boundary-pushing photography, collage, and cover art. For half a century, celebrated visual artist Mauro Balletti has helped shape the identity of…
The Growing Movement to Save the Sicilian Language
Something big is unfolding in Sicily, and no, it’s not a new season of White…
A Celebration of Creativity at AccentiFest 2025
From June 26 to 28, 2025, the city of Charlottetown played host to the Accenti…
The Women of Steel project pays tribute to…
In 1946, Montreal restaurateur Frank Roncarelli, an Italian…
When I first moved out,…
Félix Rose’s new documentary, La…
Echoes of the Troubadour: A Review of In a Cage of Sunlight: The Works of Joseph Maviglia, Selected and New
Joseph Maviglia’s debut verse collection, Movietown, appeared in 1989, 36 years ago. That was only…
Love’s Eye View: New Possibilities in Storytelling and Heritage Preservation
Upon invitation, my wife and I, we went down into the city. We travelled with…
Le Bateau en état d’ébriété (1870)
– Après Arthur Rimbaud, pace John Thompson As I sluiced wild, homicidal channels, The pilot…
Echoes of the Troubadour: A Review of In a Cage of Sunlight: The Works of Joseph Maviglia, Selected and New
Joseph Maviglia’s debut verse collection, Movietown, appeared in 1989, 36 years ago. That was only the start of a rhapsodic…
In Laura’s Uncovering, John Calabro Weaves a Tale of Two Eras
In Laura’s Uncovering (Ekstasis 2024), Toronto author John Calabro has crafted a historical romance set in two different eras, with…
Love and War in Genni Gunn’s The Cipher
With The Cipher (Signature Editions 2024, 239 p.), Genni Gunn has written a masterful work that captures the sacrifices of…
Creating a Future: Artist Mauro Balletti Reflects on Five Decades with Pop Icon Mina
In a rare and intimate interview with Elio Iannacci, visual artist Mauro Balletti reflects on his five-decade-plus collaboration with Mina—the…
Mickey & Joe: Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty: In Conversation with Michaela Di Cesare
Mickey & Joe: Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty is having its world premiere in Montreal from May 17 to 25, 2025.…
Between Curiosity and Imagination: In Conversation with Renée M. Sgroi
In a Tension of Leaves and Binding (Guernica 2024) is Renée M. Sgroi’s second collection of poetry. Her previous collection, life…
Gino Quilico, the Man and the Artist
In her new book, An Opera in Three Acts Starring Gino Quilico (LLP, 2022), Connie Guzzo McParland chronicles the lives…
At a Loss – The Science and Art of Being a Hairstylist
Victor DiBenedetto has spent a lifetime discreetly making his customers look and feel their best. For nearly five decades, the…
But For Now We Stay Home
For our mammas! Francesca LoDico’s radio special, "But For Now We Stay Home,” is about her mamma coping with the…
To Market, To Market – the Mercato Experience in Italy
The Mercato is an Italian tradition that goes back centuries. Once a week, travelling vendors come to town, set up…
Where Italy’s Most Famous Are Buried
Every year millions of tourists visit the city of Florence and flock to the Uffizi Gallery for its extraordinary collection…
Dining With the Gods – A Travel Essay
After almost half a century living in Toronto’s Little Italy, I make a return journey to the place where I…
Ottawa’s “Village”
Cars, trucks, and heavy transports bustle down the busy thoroughfare known as Preston Street. A vital link between the city…
Giving Ethnocultural Studies a Digital Future
The historiography of Canada’s ethnocultural communities has developed largely over the past 60 years and individual community histories continue to…
The Roncarelli Case: Defiance in the Pursuit of Justice
In 1946, Montreal restaurateur Frank Roncarelli, an Italian immigrant from Bologna, did the unimaginable – he sued the most powerful…
Fascism, Anti-Semitism, and the Italian Novel in California
As Italian Liberation Day approaches every April 25th, the editorial pages of Italy’s national newspapers reignite the national discourse over…
Letters of Introduction? Lear, Gissing and Douglas’s Travels to Calabria
For centuries, letters of introduction were considered almost as essential as passports for travelling within what is now Italy. A…
The Growing Movement to Save the Sicilian Language
Something big is unfolding in Sicily, and no, it’s not a new season of White Lotus. There is a saying…
Looming
“When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the…
Pictures and Parades
There is this picture of me, taken at my first gay pride parade, that is one of my favourites. In…
The Son She Never Had
Luca inhaled deeply and then parked his cigarette in the ashtray. He turned to me, wearing a very decisive expression…
Calabrese Nacatole: Byzantine Delights for the Holiday Season
As the festive season approaches, I think of my mom and her enigmatic smile, and how she diligently and lovingly…
Holiday Memories
Our holiday celebrations always began with Italian Christmas Eve fare: fish and seafood, and our regional specialty of polenta e baccalà. Around…
Mushrooms Like Paper-Thin Memories
Evenings on Prince Edward Island already smell like autumn. On the boardwalk at the end of each day the air…
Preserving Summer’s Latecomers
Forlorn, hopelessly hanging on, budding too late to reach their full glory, tarty green tomatoes are the latecomers of summer. Packed…
A Celebration of Creativity at AccentiFest 2025
From June 26 to 28, 2025, the city of Charlottetown played host to the Accenti Magazine International Festival of the…
A Celebration of Italian-Canadian Voices
More than sixty writers of Italian heritage presented their work at the 19th Biennial Conference of the Association of Italian-Canadian…
Fallen Workers: How the Italian Community Found Its Voice Through Tragedy
International Day of Mourning takes place on April 28th to remember workers killed or injured in the workplace. At Toronto's…
Italian-Canadian Writers Gather in Torino for Biennial Conference
The Association of Italian-Canadian Writers (AICW) held its biennial conference at the University of Torino, in Torino, Italy, from September…