Our Top Ten Post of 2013

A look back at some of our favorite moments of 2013: (L-R) Learning Sicilian with Professor Gaetano Cipolla at the IAM; The Feast of San Rocco with the Societá Gioventú Quagliettana; Concert dedicated to the brigands of Southern Italy with Michela Musolino and John T. LaBarbera; Dressing up as the Munaciello for Halloween; and The Feast of San Rocco with the San Rocco Society of Potenza

01 Italics, Italics, Everywhere! (Part 1) The Ancient Peoples of Sicily

02 Arthur Avenue Walking and Tasting Tour With Renée Restivo 

03 Arturo DiModica and His Charging Bull 

04 The Lion of Wall Street: Ferdinand Pecora and the Crash of 1929

05 New Discoveries at the Met 

06 An Interview With Santi Buscemi

07 The Roman Lemuria, and the Ungrateful Dead 

08 Learning Sicilian at the Italian American Museum

09 Mare Nostrum: The Arrival of Our Mediterranean Ancestors

10 Pizza and Paulaner: Celebrating the Feast of San Francesco di Paola

(L-R, Top) Dancing the tarantella at the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Bergen Beach, Brooklyn; A memorable night in Little Italy with Ernie Rossi and Simona De Rosa; Fiaccolata di San Rocco in Astoria, Queens; Lifting the children's giglio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Bottom) Watching the ladies lift the giglio in East Harlem and The Feast of the Madonna Addolorata in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Close, but no cigar:

Concert Dedicated to the Brigands of Southern Italy and "Cucina Della Nonna" in Williamsburg, Brooklyn deserve honorable mentions. Perhaps if these posts had as much "air-time" as some of the others they may have made our Top Ten list.

Still making the rounds:

01 A Look at the Fourth Annual Procession of Maria S.S. Addolorata in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn * 

02 The Murder of Sicilians in New Orleans

03 Thy Neighbor's Keeper

* For some reason this post went "viral" and got almost 30 thousand page views in one day

Click here to see last year's results