IT AIN'T THE OLIVE GARDEN

What's Italian? The Olive Garden? Chef Boy-r-dee? Everyone loves pizza, pasta and The Godfather. Maybe everyone's part Italian, but there's more to it than that, shidrool.

Here's an interview with professor Fred Gardaphé, director of Italian-American Studies at Stoney Brook. His books include Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative; Moustache Pete is Dead!; Leaving Little Italy; and From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities.

Here Gardaphè comments on America's favorite Italian-Americans, The Sopranos.

Dr. Gardaphé's website: http://www.italianstudies.org/iam/

MOBSTER CHRISTMAS

Santa has been hanging with the mob these days, laying low. He gets a little jumpy when there's a sudden noise, or when it's especially quiet.

To hear some mob music from M.I.A., Mango Pickle Down River (featuring Wilcannia Mob) please click button