by Richard A. Annotico, Esq.
INDEX - 2009
Dicember
  • Donald Trump Calls for Italy Boycott to Protest "Foxy Knoxy" Verdict
  • Dustin Hoffman Slaughters Italian in Epic Poem in Tourism Ad for Marche Region
  • Italians and Food- More than Sustenance- A Joy of Life
  • "Jersey Shore" Pressured by New Jersey Italo-American Legislators
  • Bradley Cooper, "Hangover" star has Renee Zellweger 'catering' to Italian American Mom
  • Was Leonardo Da Vinci's Mother Muslim? 
  • "Jersey Shore" Like Most Reality TV Features Sociopaths
  • Oy to the World; Mazel Tov and " Hark" at Christmas
  • Italy Tax Amnesty Yields Record 
  • MTV's Jersey Shore is Offensive to Italians
  • Dell Pulls Ads From "Jersey Shore" Follows Domino's and American Family Insurance 
  • Alyssa Milano Slams 'Jersey Shore' in Spoof Video - Entertaining
  • Jewish Leaders Demand  Veto Vote on Catholic Venerations
  • Italian Adriano Celentano FIRST Rap in 1972 - "Prisencolinensinainciusol"
  • "Jersey Shore" is Joke on Cast
  • 'Saturday Night Live': America, it's Your Girl, 'Snooki'
  • "Jersey Shore" - Freak Show ???
  • "Jersey Shore" Celebs on Jay Leno Show - Quiz Battle 
  • Fugly "Snooki"  Trashed, after being Bashed !!
  • Why do Young People Ignore the Stereotypes on 'Jersey Shore'?
  • "Jersey Shore" Guidos -Guidettes vs Carnival Chicken 
  • Dan Ferro is My Hero !! He Decks "Big Mouthed Snooki"
  • "G Word": To Embrace or Reject?-Time Magazine
  • MTV's Jersey Shore: Advertisers Run Scared - 2nd Advertiser- "American Family Insurance" Bails- More to Follow?
  • "Foxy Knoxy Trial" - 'My Rights were Respected' says Knox
  • "Foxy Knoxy Trial" - Wild, Raunchy Past
  • "Foxy Knoxy Trial" Sex Secrets Revealed in Foxy's Diary
  • Memories of Dominic to Dominick's to Domino's to  "Jersey Shore"
  • Domino's Pizza Pulls Ads from "Jersey Shore"
  • "Foxy Knoxy Trial" Supporters Impugn Italy.and Italian Judicial System
  • "Foxy Knoxy Trial": Found Guilty on All Charges in Perugia

  • November
  • Italian Develops Bionic Hand Controlled by Thoughts - Even Vulgar Ones!
  • 'Jersey Shore' - Guido is a Lifestyle, not a Slur?
  • The Figting Irish  ITALIAN Generals
  • Cherry Mine Disaster -C-SPAN 3 Discussion- Sunday Nov 29 
  • Amanda Knox, Sex- Murder Defendant, Sued for $37 Million
  • Coal Mine Disasters Remind Of Early Italian Immigrant Hardships & Mans Inhumanity to Man
  • Raising Italy's Profile and Reach
  • Carl's Jr. Stops Mobster Ads After Complaints 
  • 'Jersey Shore' Offends, UNICO Protests 
  • Italy, Where all the Women Seem Genetically Curvaceous Like Sophia Loren
  • The Italians have a Cure for that Overstuffed Thanksgiving Feeling
  • Chocolate for All Courses of Dinner, an Italian Tradition 
  • California was Made by Italians, in Three Waves, Claims Director
  • Azzurra Win Louis Vuitton Trophy in Nice
  • "New Moon"- Twilight in Volterra Italy, or  Montepulciano?
  • EBay Removes Offers of Mussolini Brain, Blood Samples
  • Perugia Student Killer Amanda Knox Case Goes to Jury
  • Lady Gaga, aka Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
  • Rome Unveils Theme-Park Plans
  • Italy's Sanremo Festival Will  Allow Non-Italians To Compete, But .... 
  • Obit: Joseph Rago, 49; Fought vs Infamous Batavia "Fuggedaboudit"
  • How Italy Beat the World to a Smarter Grid

  • October
  • Italy Convicts 23 US CIA Agents for Rendition for Torture
  • San Diego "Little Italy" Adopts Adjoining Elementary School
  • Boston Mayor Thomas Menino Wins a Fifth Term
  • British MI9 "Blunder" during WWII Dooms 50,000 British POWs in Italy 
  • "Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel" by Nunzio Pernicone
  • Giovanni Falcone: Iconic Italian Judge Tributed by US Supreme Court
  • Italian Tax Amnesty Could Bring $150 Billion Home, But Some Complain about Leniency
  • "Aggressive" Italian Tax Tactics Anger Swiss
  • Obit: Gr.Uff. Joe Maselli: 85,  Champion of New Orleans' Italian Life, Culture, History
  • Italian Banks Freeze Mortgage Payments for Unemployed
  • Spaghetti Bolognese: Migrates Back to Italy, But with a Lot of "English" on it
  • "Barbarossa": Northern Italy's Film of Pride, Flops at Box Office 
  • NIAF's 34th Anniversary Convention and Gala
  • Columbus Day - America Apologizes for its Own Existence
  • Italian American Baseball Heroes - Baseball Cards
  • Mussolini, England's MI5' Man in Italy?
  • Sabaudia, Italy: Designed to win the Battle of Grain, Now an Attractive Resort Area
  • Denver Columbus Day Parade Survves Hoax
  • Columbus Day Celebration Splits Providence, RI, and Entire US
  • Obit: Al Martino, 82; Singing Legend 
  • Mussolini's Legacy in Modern Rome
  • Five of Eight ML Baseball Playoff Teams have Italian Managers
  • Diana Taurasi, High School, College, WBNA Phenom Leads Championship in 3 Years
  • *The Journey of the Italians in America*- A Pictoral History
  • Italy can Teach US about Health Care and Travel 
  • Italy's Top Court Strips Berlusconi of Immunity -Two Corruption Tials to Resume
  • Palladian Villa Tour in Vicenza Italy is Magnificent
  • Bush's Like Policies Cause Mudslide in Sicily; Killing 21??
  • US, Brit Tourists Teach "Binge Drinking" to Italians
  • Dual Citizenship May be Possible for Italians
  • The Rules of Italian Coffee Drinking
  • In Your Face - Italian Style 

  • September
  • Italy Names "Baaria" as Oscar Foreign-Language Oscar 2010 Nomination
  • The Italian Sky -From Galileo to Porco
  • "How to be a Good Italian Daughter (In Spite of Myself)" -Off -Broadway
  • Castle Gardens: Before There Was an Ellis Island
  • Italian Firm AnsaldoBreda to Build LA Light-Rail Car Plant
  • Luigi Del Bianco - Chief Carver on Mt Rushmore
  • Need a Job? Move to Italy
  • The Italian Chapel on Orkney Island is an Icon
  • 100 Years of Italian Cinema Celebrated 
  • Killing and Mourning of Six Italian Paratroopers Heats Up  Afghan Withdrawal Debate 
  • Toronto Raptors Get Even More Italian Flavor -Trade for Marco Belinelli
  • Fiat to Build Chryslers in Turin, Italy
  • Elites and Left Preparing "Coup" vs Berlusconi?
  • Six Italian Paratroopers Killed in Afghanistan - Nation Mourns
  • 14th Annual Italian Film Festival in New Zealand 
  • Life is an Adventure. In Italy They Drive Like It ! :) 
  • Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" Draws Tumultuous Applause 
  • "Foxy Knoxy" Trial Resumes in Italy
  • Obit: Mike Bongiorno, Italian quiz show host, dies at 85
  • Berlusconi is Best Leader in Italy's History, says Berlusconi
  • Pennetta, Schiavone, Errani  Success at US Women's Tennis Open Stirs Italy
  • "The Guidos"  Disparaging of I-As is A Reality Show In Production
  • "Baaria", A Closer Examination
  • "Baaria.",Tornatore's Ambitious Sicilian Epic Dominates Venice Film Fest Opening with Brouhaha
  • Berlusconi Critic Resigns Facing Own Scandal
  • Venice Film Festival More Concerned About Captivating than Capitalism
  • Happy Birthday, Rocky Marciano, Undefeated Heavyweight Boxing Champion

  • August
  • Southern Italy "Colonized" Northerm Italy - A Twist to the "Southern Question"
  • Italian Pre Schools Proliferating in San Francisco - A Trend?
  • Under 25 Italians Being Influenced by Northern European "Binge Drinking "
  • What's In An Italian Name?
  • "THE VENUS FIXERS" -  Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II 
  • Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be - by Michael Parenti
  • Berlusconi Declares War on European Media
  • Garibaldi-Meucci Museum tells tales of Italian pride - not myths
  • Veronica Lario Berlusconi - Playing the Aggreived Wife - Who is Ridiculous?
  • "The Italian Chapel on Orkney"-  One of Scotland's best known Icons
  • Unification of Italy in 1870 More Conquest than Liberation
  • "BITTER SPRING"  A Life of Ignazio Silone, By Stanislao G. Pugliese
  • Paulie "The Magic Man" Malignaggi Get's "Hometowned in Houston Texas vs Juan Diaz 
  • ITALY: "The Righteous Enemy" - National Center for Jewish Film.
  • An Army of Shindlers From Italy- By Dorothy Rabinwitz; Wall Street Jour
  • Italian Benevolence Toward Jews During WWII -  Questioned ?
  • What Puzo Godfathered 40 Years Ago
  • Italians Use Pungent Gold as Collateral 
  • Italy's Flavia Pennetta Wins L.A. Women's Tennis Championships 
  • All Broads Lead to Berlusconi's Rome - Vanity Fair
  • Italians Win Aga Khan Nations' Equestrian Show Jumping Cup
  • Italians Treated Refugee Polish Jews - A Memoir of Robert Frimtzis
  • Italians in Mexico - A History
  • Five Italians Killed as Piper Plane Hits Helicopter on Hudson in NY
  • "Distant but Loyal" by Romano  to counter Anti Italian TV Images
  • Italians Love their Mobiles, The Use of Intenet Debateable

  • July
  • One In 20 Italians Lives In Absolute Poverty 
  • How to Flirt Like a Pro in Italian
  • Venice Film Festival: Twenty-Three Entries, Sept 2-12, 09
  • Hitlers First Defeat -75th Anniversary - The Stresa Front - Italy's Triumph - Britain's Failure
  • Simon Rodia's Watts Towers Need $5 Million in Repairs
  • Rooting up Ancient Rome
  • Italian Media and British Tabloids in War of Words
  • Giacomo Medici Loses Appeal to Highest Court 
  • Bruno Bozzetto's  Depiction of  Uniqueness of Italy
  • L'Aquila Sarcastically Says "Yes We Camp" to G-8 Meeting
  • Fellini's "8 1/2" turned into "Nine" the Broadway Musical, becomes "NINE" the Film
  • I-A Nemesis Prof Ward Churchill, Faux Indian Gets Comeuppance
  • U2's Bono writes Love Letter to  Italy
  • Book: "Roman Passions" ; Ancient Rome is Exaggerated to Extreme
  • "Life and Death on the Italian Front: 1915-1919" by Thompson 
  • Obit: Fred Travalena: 66; Master Impressionist and Singer
  • Film" Quiet Chaos": Dad Is Distracted

  • Jun
  • British Vote Italians the Worst Drivers in Europe - Italians Vote British Dumbest
  • Spike Lee Did Wrong Thing in "Do the Right Thing" 
  • The Historic Underground Cities of Naples
  • "Fighting Nun" Publishes "Pope Pius XII
  • Italy Seizes $134 Billon in Counterfeit US Bonds
  • New Jersey Soccer Star Giuseppe Rossi is Living Out His Italian Dream
  • Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone" by Stanislao G. Pugliese
  • 2009, "The International Year of Astronomy" to Recognize Galileo 
  • Obit: Sam Butera: 81, Saxiphonist Sidekick of Louis Prima and Keely Smith
  • Italian 14-15 yr Old Trio "Sing O Sole Mio" -  And Italian Singer List
  • Italian "Vespa" Scooter Makes Unprecedented Risk-Free 12 Month Test Ride
  • Miller-Coors Scuttles Ad Campaign Offensive to Italians
  • Villanova Virtual Video of Vatican
  • Italian Comfort Food Salves Swiss Stressed Economy 
  • Judge Halts Berlusconi Photos Release
  • Paolo Conte: Lawyer Turned Singer Italian Legend at 72; Still Strong
  • Brits Apoplectic over Berlusconi Bikini Girl Photographs

  • May
  • EMail to Millers-Coors to Protest Their Negative Steretype TV Ad 
  • Italians Sol Trujillo and Francesco de Leo to Compete in America's Sailing Cup
  • IItaly Serie A Soccer Being Over Shadowed by England's Premier League and Spanish Liga 
  • Obit: Amos Elon: 82; Retreated to Italy, after Zionist Disillusionment
  • "Operation Sunrise" - US-CIA  Negotiate German Surrender in  WWII
  • Arandora Star "Innocents" Survivor Stories
  • Arandora Star "Innocents" Memorial Planned for 800 "Interred" Welsh-Italians
  • "Yogi Berra; Eternal Yankee"; By Allen Barra
  • Obit: Achille Compagnoni; 94; Famed Italian Climber -Conqueror of K-2
  • Italy Restructures Film Promotion Entty and Sets High Goals
  • Saks Fifth Ave: Italy to Take Over Another American Icon 
  • Italian town of Gubbio For 600 years has "Festa dei Ceri" Featuring Race of the Saints
  • Jeno Paulucci, Founder of NIAF Receives Honorary Degree from Minnesota U at Duluth
  • Frank Sinatra Biographical Film by Martin Scorese
  • First Known Instance of Use of @ in 1536 Letter From Italian Merchant
  • "The Old West"  in Bologna, Italy
  • Berluscini Meets with Israel's FM Lieberman - Discuss Palestine Options
  • Is FIAT Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne Nuts ???
  • Why is the Italian Lifestyle so Good for You?
  • Obit: Dom DeLuise:75; Actor was a 'Naturally Funny Man'
  • Adriana Trigian's "Very Valentine" is Swang !!  And Italian American's Best Hope For Cultural Salvation
  • Italian ShipsThwart 3 of 4 Pirate Attacks, One With Water Hoses  !! ?? 
  • Obit: Dominic DiMaggio,92; 7-Time American League All-Star
  • Italy's Campania Region Where the Mozzarella Buffalo Roams
  • Italy: Beautiful, Unspoiled Paestum, Remnent of Magna Grecia
  • Britain Fears fot Italian Reputation with Divorce of Belusconi - Really!!!
  • 'Angels and Demons'  the Sequel to the "Da Vinci Code" "Bows in Italy
  • The Antonori Dynasty Profiled by 60 Minutes
  • Berlusconi's Wife Says She Wants a Divorce
  • Sergio Marchionne of FIAT, Savior of Chrysler?
  • Paolo Sorrentino, Writer - Director of "Il Divo"
  • "Il Divo": Giulio Andreotti, the Seven Times Italy's Prime Minister

  • April
  • Italian Cruise Liner Repels Pirates Off Somalia Coast By Merely Shooting Back
  • Meatballs for Breakfast???
  • In Italy, the Non Kebob Wars
  • Italians Celebrate Liberation Day of WWII on April 25, 65 Years ago
  • Belusconi Seeks to Move G-8 Summit From UpScale Sardinia Resort to L'Aquila.- Quake-Hit City
  • Silvio Berlusconi Picks Starlets for European Elections
  • Curtis Sliwa Does "Mea Culpa" on  Anti -Italian Broadcast -Why???
  • Brown U to Consider Changing Name Due to Endowers Slave Biz
  • Italy's Sheltered Jews Repay WWII Aid - 65 Years Later
  • "Italian-American Reconciliation": NY Men Deal with Love and Women 
  • "Thread of Grace" : Italians Saved 43,000 Jews During  WWII
  • Brown U. Erases Columbus Day - Indignant William Ise Responds
  • Fante at 100: UCLA Library Acquires His Archives
  • Mass State Funeral Held for Nearly 300  L'Aquila EarthQuake Victims
  • The 5th Annual Italian Film Festival of St. Louis- April 10-25
  • Berlusconi has "Bush Moment" with Earthquake Survivors ?
  • L`Aquila Quake: MADONNA Donates $750,000 to Ancestors Home 
  • Italian-Americans Mobilize to Help Earthquake Region
  • L'Aquila, Italy  Hit by 6.3  "Killer" Earthquake
  • Italian Nun Former 20 year Lap Dancer 
  • Swiss, Italians to Change Border Due to Melting Ice

  • March
  • Why Fiat & Chrysler Belong Together
  • The Foxy Knoxy Trial begins in Italy
  • Actress Gets Naked In Milan Exchange to Protest Incompetent Financiers
  • Irish Greatest Celebrant - Saint Patrick was Italian - Of course
  • Italian Solution to AIG $450 Million Bonuses: "Coglioni Quadrati"
  • North Korea Gets Pizza after Herioc 10 Year Struggle
  • How Silvio Berlusconi Became Italy's Superman
  • Italian Businessmen in Bulgaria Support Children of Poverty
  • Dominic Moreo 's ""Riot at Fort Lawton" sets Record Straight
  • The On, Off, On, Off Sicily Bridge is On Again 
  • David Beckham Gets His Way, To Play for AC Milan and LA Galaxy 
  • "Lt. Giuseppe Petrosino, NYPD" Celebrated on 100 th Anniversary of Assassination Overseas
  • Why Joe DiMaggio Will Remain Immortal
  • When the Italian Swiss Migrated en Masse
  • Italian American Museum  Expansion and Renovation In NYC
  • New Generation of "Ugly Americans" in Italy 
  • Modern-Day Gladiators Re-create  Rome 
  • Italian Leftist Antonio Gramsci Gets Chaotic Republicans Disrisen
  • Italy Plans a Virtual Museum of Iraq's Ancient Treasures
  • Italian "Reggio Emilia Method" of Teaching PreShoolers - To Think ! 

  • February
  • Matteo Renzi, 34, Has Italy's Left Found its Own Obama?
  • Finding Real Estate Deals in Italy?
  • Italy to Re-Introduce Nuclear Power Plants
  • US Speaker Pelosi leads Congressional Delegation to Italy
  • Book: 'Dark Water', Flood of Florence in 1966
  • Obit: Louie ( Balassoni) Bellson, 84;  Duke Ellington called him 'the World's Greatest Drummer'
  • Madoff Scandal Arouses Jew Usurious Money Lender Stereotype
  • Italian Minister, Roberto Maroni Calls for Rapists to be Castrated
  • Italy Surviving Global Recession better than Euro Partners
  • Valentine Speak -Italian Style
  • Where God Vacations
  • Italy Offers Euro 1,500 to New Car Buyers To Rescue Auto Industry
  • Eluana Englaro - Berlusconi Defies Supreme Court in Italy's Terry Schiavo case
  • Embarrassed Brits Call Off Strike Vs. Italians
  • Brit Workers Strike Vs. Italians
  • Italian Mystery Writer Andrea Camilleri Keeps Montalbano on the Case
  • Italians Moelgg and Rocca are Top Two Men's Skiers in the WC Slalom
  • If Salami is the Blog of Cured  Meats, Then Prosciutto is the Great Novel

  • January
  • US Violence Takes Toll on Italian Exchange Student
  • Veronica Lario, Berlusconi's wife, Gushes over Obama 
  • Obit: Dante Lavelli, 85 Cleveland Browns, Hall of Fame Receiver
  • Pasta to the Rescue of Budget Tight Consumers
  • Fabrizio de André - Celebrated 10 Years After Death 
  • Jewish-Italian Exhibit at San Francisco Museo ItaloAmericano 
  • Fiat Considers Stake in Chrysler
  • "Foxy Knoxy" Sex Murder Trial Begins in Perugia
  • Berlusconi Shows How Capitalism Works in Alitalia Deal
  • No Auto Bailout for Lamborghini that Sets Sales Records for $200,000 Sports Car
  • 500 Km Medieval & Renaissance Italy Inland Waterway to Reopen 
  • Alitalia Begins New Era
  • Arrivederci, Advanced Placement Italian
  • Ferdinand Pecora - Why Didn't Bush and McCain Learn his Lesson?
  • Leon Panetta - Obama's Choice for CIA Chief - Attached to His Italian Roots
  • Italy Takes over G8 Presidency 
  • Chinese Cheap Labor are "Slaves of Luxury" of Italy's Fashion Industry

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