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Bernadette Giacomazzo (born Benedetta Rosalia Giuseppina Giacomazzo, 29 November 1977) is an American journalist, photographer and author. She wrote In Living Color: A Cultural History and The Golden Girls: A Cultural History.
Giacomazzo is the oldest of two children, born in Far Rockaway, New York. Her father, Giuseppe Giacomazzo (1936–2009), was part of the Marseilles Mafia. [1] [2] [3] Her mother, Anna Maria Natalucci, is the daughter of chef Paolo Natalucci, who had a number of restaurants in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s. [4]
In 2005, Giacomazzo co-wrote Swimming with Sharks with Melissa Deskovic. [5] In December 2022, Giacomazzo released her first poetry chapbook, Aquarius Rising, on Nightingale & Sparrow Press. [6] In February 2023, Giacomazzo released In Living Color: A Cultural History, which is part of Rowman & Littlefield's "Cultural History of Television" book series. The Library Journal gave it a starred review, [7] calling it a "must-read book on the history of a show that molded Black comedy sketches and brings together different threads of social awareness, race, entrepreneurship, comedy, resilience, and bravery in the face of a world not used to seeing "in living color."" Booklist also gave the book a starred review. [8] and was listed at number four in the outlet's Top 10 Arts Books of 2023. [9] In August 2023, Giacomazzo released The Golden Girls: A Cultural History with Rowman & Littlefield. [10] Publisher's Weekly said that "pop culture fans will rejoice" at "Giacomazzo's careful cultural analysis" of "issues that are still salient today. [11]
A Waldorf salad is a fruit and nut salad generally made of celery, fresh apples, walnuts, and grapes, dressed in mayonnaise, and traditionally served on a bed of lettuce as an appetizer or a light meal. The apples, celery, and grapes can all be green, which harmonizes the color palette of the dish.
David Banks, known by his stage name DJ Disciple, is an American DJ, house music producer and author from Brooklyn, New York. For much of his early career, he worked in London and was influential in the rise of UK garage music. Stateside, he was considered a cornerstone of New York City's house music scene. Disciple co-wrote the book The Beat, the Scene, the Sound: A DJ's Journey through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City with Henry Kronk.
The Little Colonel is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William M. Conselman was adapted from the children's novel of the same name by Annie Fellows Johnston, originally published in 1895. It focuses on the reconciliation of an estranged father and daughter in the years following the American Civil War. The film stars Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Bill Robinson and Hattie McDaniel.
Karen Friedman Hill is an American woman known for her involvement in the American Mafia through her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. The events of their lives were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books.
The Nightingale-Bamford School is an independent all-female university-preparatory school founded in 1920 by Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford. Located in Manhattan on the Upper East Side, Nightingale-Bamford is a member of the New York Interschool consortium.
Henry Martyn Blossom Jr. was an American writer, playwright, novelist, opera librettist, and lyricist. He first gained wide attention for his second novel, Checkers: A Hard Luck Story (1896), which was successfully adapted by Blossom into a 1903 Broadway play, Checkers. It was Blossom's first stage work and his first critical success in the theatre. The play in turn was adapted by others creatives into two silent films, one in 1913 and the other in 1919, and the play was the basis for the 1920 Broadway musical Honey Girl. Checkers was soon followed by Blossom's first critical success as a lyricist, the comic opera The Yankee Consul (1903), on which he collaborated with fellow Saint Louis resident and composer Alfred G. Robyn. This work was also adapted into a silent film in 1921. He later collaborated with Robyn again; writing the book and lyrics for their 1912 musical All for the Ladies.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing company National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland.
Coe Booth is an American fiction writer. Her first novel, Tyrell, was released in 2006. It is written for young adolescents.
Beat the Reaper is a 2009 crime novel, the debut novel of author/physician Josh Bazell.
Nancy Rawles is an American playwright, novelist, and teacher. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Award.
Charles Taliaferro is an American philosopher specializing in theology and philosophy of religion.
Kyo Maclear is a Canadian novelist and children's author.
The white savior is a cinematic trope in which a white central character rescues non-white characters from unfortunate circumstances. This recurs in an array of genres in American cinema, wherein a white protagonist is portrayed as a messianic figure who often gains some insight or introspection in the course of rescuing non-white characters from their plight.
A Sixth Family is a crime family or criminal organization, usually an Italian-American or Italian-Canadian crime group, that has become powerful or notable enough to rise to a level comparable to that of the Five Families of the New York City Italian-American Mafia. A criminal organization deemed a "Sixth Family" may rival the Five Families or, alternatively, may work closely enough with the Five Families that it appears to be a peer or near coequal of the families.
Laura Ruby is an American author of twelve books, including Bone Gap (2015), winner of the 2016 Michael L. Printz Award and finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She is also a professor at Hamline University.
Margaret Ross Griffel is an American musicologist and author.
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All is a young adult novel by Laura Ruby, published October 1, 2019, by Balzer + Bray.
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners is a 2021 picture book by Joanna Ho, published by HarperCollins on January 5, 2021, as her debut work. Ho aimed to show the beauty of East Asian eyes while also showing that everyone is beautiful. A sequel titled Eyes That Speak to the Stars was published in February 2022.
