The Gentrification of Griffintown
Dedicated to my grandmother Maria Luisa Agostino, my great-aunt Carmela and my…
Places
The Other Italy
In Canada and the United States, Italians form an ethnic community whose values and…
Sicilian Ruins: Resurrecting Poggioreale
In a June 2012 editorial in a local Piedmont newspaper on the earthquake in…
Place des Arts’ 50 Years
On September 21, Montreal’s Place des Arts – the largest performing arts centre in…
Italy For Beginners
Can you imagine waking up every morning in a place where nearly every street has a coffee…
Montreal, a Patchwork City of Design
A cross between the brash New York huckster and the fun-loving Parisian artist, Montreal…
Guanti Bianchi
I took the photo in Napoli’s iconic Piazza del Plebiscito. The pattern of the soldiers…
Civil Life on the Canals
Venice has a reputation as a “serene” city – its surname in Italian is la…
Alfonso Gagliano, Life After Politics
Alfonso Gagliano hopes that his legacy will be more than just a long political career…
The Long Way to Rome
All roads lead to Rome, as they say, but none compares with the experience of walking the…