Well it's St. Peter's Fiesta time here in Gloucester and this year I am participating in a project to document my town's "little Italy" - known as The Fort.

Although most of Gloucester's Italian-American community has moved on, The Fort is still the heart and soul, the place where our families got a foothold in America.

Change is happening across the country and in our tired old fishing town and so Ethnographer Sal Zerilli and his team are preparing to document...

Ahhh, space. I have always looked up and wondered what's going on up there. Even though my horrible math skills steered me clear of Astronomy in school, it never stopped me from reading the latest discoveries.

I kind of see space exploration in a similar vein as the Age of Discovery, but on a much longer time-scale. With my connection to the ocean from my family, its no wonder that I see space as the new, unexplored 'Ocean-Sea'.

So to me it is fitting that Italian scientists,...

Disturbing news article on packs of feral dogs in Sicily. A pack of feral dogs are much more dangerous than say a pack of wolves of coyotes since the fear of humans has not been bread out of them.

In my area, the coyotes are getting more brazen, now that they are used to living so close to humans. However this is not the occasional pet being taken by wild animals. In this situation happening in Sicily, humans are being brutally attacked by domesticated dogs, that have returned to...

Well, not like we really had a chance, but Italy was knocked out of the World Baseball Classic yesterday. While players of Italian descent have been a major part of America's Pastime since at least the 1920's, this national team just couldn't get it together -even with the help of batting coach Mike Piazza.

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Are Italians getting fatter? Well if the stats in this news report can be trusted, maybe a little. Seriously the increases are slight, but they do trend in the wrong direction. Don't worry Italy, you got a long way to go before your streets and malls are filled with mastodons waddling to the next trattoria...

And as for the South, well watch out for what seems like a curse on your cousins, the overweight Italian-Americans: Type II diabetes. Many of us with Southern Italian genes are...