neapolitan
The Dark and Eccentric World of Neapolitan Pop
With a story that veers from the Mafia to Silvio Berlusconi, this is how a genre born from Italy's poorest suburbs became the most controversial sound in the country.
Falling in Love with an Ice Cream Man Is About More than a Big Cone
He asked me to go home with him to play Pop Pop, a game much like the food sex scene in 9½ Weeks but using only scoops of pink bubble-gum ice cream to eat, blow up, and pop on each other’s goose-pimpled skin while rolling around in the mud.
Italy Wants the UN to Recognize Its Pizza as a "Cultural Heritage"
The Italian government is submitting Neapolitan pizza to this year’s UNESCO cultural heritage list, attempting to distinguish it once and for all from Domino’s’ Frankenpizza creations.
Stream Hot Flash Heat Wave's LP 'Neapolitan'
The San Francisco quartet deliver an indie-pop LP that diarizes their lives and luxuriates in scuzzed up guitars, cheeky hooks, and a ménage à trois or two.
Very Serious Italians Want All Pizza Makers to Be Licensed
An Italian association is imploring European governments to force aspiring pizza-makers to take hundreds of hours of courses and earn a license first.
Pizza's Lengthy History Has Been a Filthy Lie
Pizza purists have long accredited Naples with being the birthplace of pizza (and ground zero for its finest form), but new research argues that it actually originated elsewhere.
