#San Gennaro Festival

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Festival of San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, begins in Little Italy on the second Thursday of September and lasts a week. The main event is eating, as these folks were doing in September, 1958.

Photo: Robert R. McElroy via Getty Images

#vintage New York #1950s #Robert R. McElroy #Festival of San Gennaro #Feast of San Gennaro #Little Italy #street photography #street scene #eating #food festival #Italian-Americans

[oflights]

i am begging the resident drarry new yorkers to write this. pleading on my knees.

i just need a plot!!! and to finish 5000 other things!! the plot can't be "drarry in new york" even though, knowing me, i could probably bang out 10k pointless words of that lol

#asks #anonymous #i honestly thought about setting make this leap in new york #like the restaurant is based off my favorite restaurant in my neighborhood lol #also made summer stroll happen on diagon alley #but that's all very niche ny #i'd want to write a magical street festival like san gennaro #or like you take the D or N too far and you'd think you end up at coney island but actually there's one more magical stop #the eye of sauron building is actually an evil wizard lair #etc

[silentlondon]

Il Cinema Ritrovato: a week in 1922

Il Cinema Ritrovato: a week in 1922

Three little words of Italian you need to learn if you attend Il Cinema Ritrovato: Cento Anni Fa. This must-see strand of the festival, curated by Bologna’s silent cinema supremos Mariann Lewinsky and Karl Wratschko, dials back the programming clock by a century. The name means simply: a hundred years ago. So it was that this week, in between blasts of restorative Italian sunshine and shots of…

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#1922 #Alice Rohrwacher #Bologna #Charles Vanel #Charlie Chaplin #Cineteca di Bologna #Erich von Stroheim #featured #Gennaro Righelli #Il Cinema Ritrovato #John Sweeney #Lotte Reiniger #Louis Delluc #Salome #San Francisco Silent Film Festival #silent film #Stephen Horne #Valetina Magaletti #Viktor Turzanskij

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Louis Faurer, Robert Frank and Mary Frank at San Gennaro Festival, NYC, 1950

[inneroptics]

Louis Faurer - Mary and Robert Frank at San Gennaro Festival 1950

[jesse-eisenberg-interview]

A list of Jesse Eisenberg's writing

I made a list of Jesse Eisenberg's writing.

2009

NOV 30 Manageable Tongue Twisters.

2010

FEB 24 Marxist-Socialists Jokes

2011

JUL 21 A Post Gender Normative Man Tries to Pick Up a Woman at a Bar

DEC 07 ACTOR & PLAYWRIGHT JESSE EISENBERG ON THE THRILL OF THE STAGE

2012

JAN 25 Courage Is Just an Act

FEB 15 Jeremy Lin Has Helped Me Through Some Pretty Tough Times

MAR 12 Jesse Eisenberg on His Lifelong Aversion to Youth Culture

MAY 24 Sushi Nozawa

JUN 06 Masgouf

JUL 09 The Whiskey Blue Bar at the W Hotel

AUG 01 TCBY

AUG 20 Robert Frost Elementary School Cafeteria

OCT 02 Organix vs. the San Gennaro Street Festival

NOV 21 Thanksgiving With Vegans

DEC 11 Body Rituals Among the Lauxesortem

2013

FEB 22 Matthew’s House

MAR 17 Marv Albert Is My Therapist

APR 15 The League, Passed Down

APR 17 I Didn’t Win Any Pulitzer Prizes This Year

APR 25 A Marriage Counselor Tries to Heckle at a Knicks Game

JUN 03 Fuddruckers and an Unreliable New Friend

JUN 24 Separation-Anxiety Sleepaway Camp

AUG 06 A Crawfish Boil and Dad’s New Family

SEP 09 A Bully Does His Research

OCT 02 A Post Gender Normative Woman Tries to Pick Up a Man at a Bar

OCT 07 Final Conversations at Pompeii

NOV 01 The Museum of Natural History and Making Compromises

NOV 12 Alexander Graham Bell’s First Five Phone Calls

DEC 12 The Ashram and Mom

2014

JAN 20 If I Was Fluent in . . .

JUN 10 Carmelo Anthony and I Debrief Our Friends After a Pickup Game at the Y.M.C.A.

2015

MAY 25 Men and Dancing

SEP 01 My Nephew Has Some Questions

SEP 09 My Spam Plays Hard to Get

NOV 22 THE GUY WHO HATED NOW YOU SEE ME, A SHORT STORY

NOV 23 An Honest Film Review

2016

JAN 27 What Do You Do When Your Mother Won’t Shut Up at The Ballet?

FEB 04 Act Like You Know

FEB 12 Why I Broke Up with the Little Mermaid

MAY 19 My Cousin Recently Became A Realtor

NOV 04 SELF-DEPRECATING HEROES

DEC 11 LOW TALK IN HIGH PLACES

2017

JAN 23 YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW

JAN 25 My Very Good Friend

FEB 01 发现肉——致中国读者

MAR 04 HAVE YOU DINED WITH US BEFORE?

NOV 14 Mongolia

2018

JAN 15 Sad Stuff on the Street

MAR 20 Thanks, Giving

MAY 14 My N.B.A. Knowledge Comes In Handy

MAY 18 One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Natural Order of the World Depends On It

MAY 31 Jesse Eisenberg on the Relentless Work Ethic of Philip Roth

DEC 05 The Cast Members and Their Crew

2019

JAN 03 MY SISTER PUSHES THE LOBSTER

NOV 21 My Two-Year-Old Requests Just One More Song Before Bed

NOV 23 Jesse Eisenberg: Recommends four contemporary plays

2021

MAR 02 Writer Courtney Zoffness and Jesse Eisenberg on the Radical Compassion of Art

2022

NOV 07 Content Warning

2023

FEB 20 A G.P.S. Route for My Anxiety

#jesse eisenberg #writing

[federer7]

Mary and Robert Frank at San Gennaro Festival, New York, 1950

Photo: Louis Faurer

#louis faurer #1950 #mary frank #robert frank #San Gennaro #new york

[kvetchlandia]

Bob Gruen     Joe Strummer of The Clash at the San Gennaro Festival, Mulberry St, Little Italy, New York City     1978

“The future is unwritten.” Joe Strummer

[thespiritualsolarsystem]

San Gennaro festival, Thai food, ginger tea, and readings w/ @serafinapenneallavodka ❤️‍🔥

#2O23 #✨ #om krim kalikaye namah #September tings//first day of autumn

[meme-streets]

what do you think was going through johnny boy's head during that roof scene, like why do you think he was up there?

oh god, i am so sorry this took so long to answer.

so there's a few things at play there, i think. first of all–i think the rooftops are, for him, an escape. he complains about hating the san gennaro festival because the streets are crowded and it makes it hard to move around, he talks about being "boxed in" when he runs from that card game, and we see him take the rooftops to get to the apartment toward the end of the film. so i think he goes up there as a kind of escape–it's the closest thing he has to physically getting away from little italy and new york city more broadly. he claims he wants to "wake up the neighborhood" and that he's gonna shoot out the lights on the empire state buildings; he's physically striking back at the environment he feels trapped in. (you could also maybe read the shooting the empire state building as raging against god; he's aiming for the highest point he can find.)

i think the fact he's shooting off a gun and throwing homemade bombs around is also, metaphorically and literally, about the release of pressure. the whole film it feels to me like he's deliberately trying to push the tension with michael (and, hell, with anyone else) to its climax; he wants things to boil over and explode. our introduction to him is him blowing up a mailbox. in the script, charlie calls him "flash" (like jumpin' jack, perhaps, given the use of the rolling stones song) and in the film someone (i think michael) uses that nickname at one point. he's definitely associated with explosions, destruction, the build up and release of pressure (which charlie continually tries to delay).

and then, what i think is the most important aspect, which i will put under a readmore with a suicide tw.

johnny boy really strikes me as suicidal. i think on its own there's a subtext there with him being on a high rooftop (the line "he's been up on the roof for half an hour" especially) with a loaded gun (recall that the gun he pulls on michael is unloaded), but this combined with the fact that he's so incredibly self-destructive and seems to sabotage all charlie's attempts to help, which only prolong the situation–johnny boy just wants it over one way or the other. i don't remember exactly where it is in the film, but the bit about oscar's business partner who committed suicide is fairly close to this scene if my memories serves me, and giovanni explicitly compares that character to johnny boy. he seems to have this attitude of "why bother making an effort, i may as well just live it up now because i'll be dead soon anyway." he can't take responsibility because he sees no future for himself and no chance of getting out of his situation. at the very least, even if he doesn't intend to take his own life, he seems like he's just waiting around to die. but, also, only charlie is able to get him down off the roof, and i suspect there may be a subconscious desire there to see if anyone (charlie) will actually be concerned for him. to use perhaps a bit of a hackneyed term, it reads as a cry for help.

#ask #mean streets #suicide tw #despite the read more i will tag just in case

[sayitaliano]

Patron Saints and celebrations

Italians have different ways to celebrate Patron Saints' days, according on the area they live in. All in all, the day in which a city celebrates its Patron Saint, is considered as a festive day: it means schools are closed and some offices/shops may be closed as well (some others may be open only in the morning). The celebration consists of a religious cerimony, usually introduced by a parade through the main roads of the city, where you can also encounter a bunch of various food/toys stands to entertain the population (especially kids). The cerimony has specific thankful rituals for the Saint (for example in my hometown the bishop adds to the Patron Saints Church's main chandelier a bunch of roses, cause our Patron Saint's main miracle involved him having roses suddenly grow in his garden under winter's snow).

I think is more common to see dances, shows (music/theater) and fireworks or other celebrations for Patron Saints days in more touristic places (and especially when these happen in warmer months) or in the Central/Southern area of Italy. Ofc, it doesn't have to be: on Sant'Ambrogio's day, Patron Saint of Milano, the Teatro La Scala holds its first plays of the year. But for example, I read the celebration for San Gennaro last 2 days and for sure involve the population much more than what happens in my hometown's, not to mention the very famous "blood miracle" (the Saint's blood is held in two cruets and if it turns "liquid" it means good luck for the city, while if doesn't liquefy, it's a sign of not so good luck) that the Saint repeats three times every year (one of which on his day - I mean, the bishop and the population wait for the miracle 3 times each year, but it's not sure that it liquefies). In cities that have the luck to be near the sea, there may be a parade on the sea (for example in Taranto), but in the end, every city celebrates its Saint their way, with as many activities as possible (it may involve special free openings of museums as well or other similar events).

#traditions #it #italian #langblr #italiano #italian language #italian langblr #language #languages #italian things #italian stuff #italian culture #tw religion #non sono di napoli non ammazzatemi #ma correggetemi pure

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Feast of San Gennaro is a big festival in Little Italy, seen here in 1952. This year it runs from September 15th to 25th.

Photo: Marvin E. Newman via reallifeiselsewhere blog

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1950s #San Gennaro #Marvin E. Newman #color photography #Feast of San Gennaro #street festival #Festival of San Gennaro #Little Italy #nighttime #crowd #street fair #street photography

[justanothertheofficeblog]

Spent yesterday in NYC. World Trade Center Memorial, San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy and Times Square. Not my favorite place in the world but I loved the company. Thanks @beka-dreamer and @because-imma-lady-assface for a great day.

#the office #the office gif #michael scott #NYC #the office quotes

[ohnoitsthebat]

WIP Tag Game

Tagged by @mauvecardigans, thank you, babe!

Post your WIP file names (no matter how nondescript or off the wall), let people ask about them, and reply with a snippet or description or other related blabbering!

Once upon a time, i had an organized list with titles and summaries, but my gremlin brain doesn't do well with organization, so. I'm just gonna list these as I have them written. Feel free to ask me about them!

Hold The Line (TKK, 90s Lawrusso) . Johnny gets a job as a phone sex operator after high school to make extra cash, since he's no longer living at home and is pretty much cut off from Sid's money. Daniel decides to call in during a particularly lonely time in his life. Chaos (and lots of sex?) ensues.

Too Drunk to Karaoke (CK, Lawrusso). I've been working on this one foreverrrrr, but can't seem to finish it. This was inspired by a convo I had with @grumpybluefairy, about Johnny and Daniel going to a bar to sing karaoke.

Who the Hell Do You Think You Are? (CK, Lawrusso)

Untitled Prompt Request for @grumpybluefairy. A filthy, dirty, smutty fic. She requested a few prompts and phrases. It's CK, Lawrusso (natch), and the prompts she requested are: "Open wide," "you look so pretty like this", and the following words: messy, choke, mouthwash, wet, and slick. A ficlet where Daniel takes Johnny to the San Gennaro Festival in New York. I've gotten about a quarter of it written. This was initially written for the allvalley100 challenge, but it quickly surpassed 100 words, so I figured I'd turn it into a ficlet.

"Hungry Like The Wolf"- a dark Silverusso fic.

Heads Will Roll (CK vampire fic, hunter!Daniel and vampire!Johnny. Might do this one for CK Halloween)

Vanilla, a Lawrusso fic.

And I am also working on my original fiction, on my writing blog.

Lost Girls With A Bloody Smile Hockey Bros

I'm tagging @camptriplepine @ceruleangold @youandthemountains @pohjanneito and @macchiatosdumptruck! (no pressure to do this, though) And anyone else who wants to do this!

#asks #tag games #wip tag games

[tommytranselo]

thinking about the san gennaro festival playing a role in both mean streets and the godfather part 2 and wondering if empire bay would have the same or similar (probably so since new bordeaux has mardi gras)...tbh i don't have anywhere else to go with that other than that it's interesting to think about. also mean streets includes one of the characters complaining about how he hates the festival because of the crowds and i feel like at least one of the guys would share that sentiment (luca probably lol), and also i like the image of henry weaving through this big crowd of celebrating people. or maybe young joe and vito running through the busy streets, catching glimpses of the neighborhood wiseguys.

#mafia 2 #is it worth tagging. idk

[inneroptics]

Louis Faurer - Mary and Robert Frank at San Gennaro Festival 1950