Editorial
Reporting, criticism and conversation from the editors of Amerigo Magazine, an independent publication covering culture, America and the world.
America · History
In the late 1800s, Sicilian immigrants joined Cubans and Spaniards in Tampa's cigar district. They rolled tobacco, organized unions and built a mutual aid society whose red-brick clubhouse still stands.
America · Miami
A delivery driver who came back hoping to get a woman's number was shot and pistol-whipped in Kendall early Monday, authorities say. The 33-year-old suspect now faces an attempted murder charge and a stack of drug trafficking counts.
World · Vatican
Doctors at Rome's Gemelli Hospital removed the lower lobe of the pope's right lung on Tuesday and confirmed adenocarcinoma. A day later, the Vatican says he is walking, eating and recovering normally.
Film · Obituary
The actor turned his breakout role into years of disability advocacy and later put down roots in Brownsville, Texas. Police say the circumstances of his death are still under investigation.
America · Columbus Day
Before October 12, 1492, humanity lived as two worlds that didn't know the other existed. A weaver's son from Genoa sailed into the unknown and brought them together.
Music · Charts
The Beatles' expanded reissue went back into the U.S. Top 10 for the first time since 1966. In Britain it came close to No. 1.
Music · Italian American Heritage
Her grandparents left a mountain village in Abruzzo for a Pennsylvania steel town. Their granddaughter turned Catholic imagery and Italian swagger into the biggest career in pop, and picked a fight with the pope along the way.
America · Miami
Miami-Dade has spent tens of millions on a nearly six-mile path through the west side of the county, and finally hired a designer this summer. Neighbors are still waiting for a single continuous mile they can walk.
Music · Italian American Heritage
The barber’s son from an Ohio steel town boxed as “Kid Crochet,” dealt cards in a back-room casino and sang as “Dino Martini” before becoming the coolest man in America. Unlike Sinatra, he never stopped singing in Italian.
World · Vatican
The 71-year-old pope announced the news himself from St. Peter’s Square, saying the nodule was caught early and that he had decided to have it removed. The Vatican expects about a week of recovery.
Music · Italian American Heritage
Born in a Hoboken tenement to a Sicilian boxer and a Ligurian political boss, Sinatra turned down the chance to become “Frankie Satin” and became the most famous Italian American of the century, with all the pride and baggage that came with it.
Film · Television
At New York Comic Con, the actor all but confirmed he’ll lead the next season of HBO’s crime anthology, playing a New York detective in a Jamaica Bay mystery from “Night Country” showrunner Issa López.
America · Italian American Heritage
America’s biggest podcaster got his Irish surname from one grandfather. The other three were Italian. Here’s the heritage behind the name, and why it so rarely comes up.
America · Remembrance
He reinvented the tight end, won championships as a player, assistant and head coach, and turned the 1985 Bears into a national obsession. Mike Ditka has died at 86.
Culture · Opinion
Hammers to the cheekbones, AI face scores and steroid regimens are promising lonely young men a shortcut to love. The research points somewhere far less dramatic: kindness, curiosity and the way you treat people.
America · Economy
A record number of residents moved out of Miami-Dade last year, even as hedge funds build towers, luxury condos sell faster and hotel rates soar. The city’s economy is being remade from the top down, and the middle is getting squeezed out.
America · Miami
Federal prosecutors say two men grabbed a man on Bird Road, demanded millions over a “15-year debt” and raised the price when his family called police. The FBI says the trail ran through a Hialeah Gardens Walmart and the pizzeria next door.
America · Midterms 2026
With President Trump’s approval near a second-term low and Democrats posting their best generic-ballot numbers of the cycle, the House looks likely to flip and the Senate is suddenly in play. In Florida, Republicans still hold the lead.
Culture · Media
Two years after he helped decide the “podcast election,” Rogan still tops every chart. But his criticism of the president barely registers, his rivals have multiplied, and his biggest bookings now look like late-night TV.
Ideas · Satire
Four years, one Corvette, an alarming amount of ice cream and not a single pair of eyes we could verify. We followed the aviators wherever they led.
Music · Italian American Heritage
Raised in New Orleans’ “Little Palermo,” Louis Prima wrote “Sing, Sing, Sing,” sang in Italian when it wasn’t safe to, and invented the Las Vegas lounge act. Then he became a Disney orangutan.
America · South Miami
Demolition of the mostly vacant Shops at Sunset Place has slipped to early 2027. But a new $149 million infrastructure district and a plan for 1,513 homes point to a very different Sunset Drive.
America · Italian American Heritage
The son of a Ligurian farmer lent to the immigrants other banks ignored, rescued his depositors’ money from the 1906 fire, and built the biggest bank in the world. Then he died with almost nothing.
Film · Box Office
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s oil-tycoon satire split critics down the middle, and audiences mostly stayed home. It’s a costly goodbye for Warner Bros. as an independent studio.
America · Miami
Police say a Port St. Lucie man in a costume raid jacket frightened Brazilian expatriates casting ballots at Miami Dade College. He says he wanted to see their reactions. Miami-Dade’s elections chief says ICE will not be at the polls in November.
America · Public Health
With Tampa Bay at the center and new cases popping up from Miami-Dade to Fort Lauderdale, South Florida health officials are urging residents to drain standing water and cover up before the rainy season ends.
Film · Documentary
Shot in secret over three years, the nearly three-hour A24 documentary from Fielder and Lance Oppenheim follows the Theranos founder through her final weeks of freedom, and into something much stranger.
America · Heritage Month
The son of an Italian bandmaster and a Jewish mother from Trieste, he translated for frightened immigrants at Ellis Island, then spent three terms remaking New York as one of the most beloved mayors in American history.
America · Heritage Month
A mob’s murder of 11 Italian immigrants became one of the darkest chapters in Italian American history — and its diplomatic fallout helped give the country a holiday Italian Americans would claim as their own.
America · Heritage
In 1942, while their sons fought for the United States, some 600,000 Italian immigrants were branded enemy aliens — placed under curfew, forced from their homes and, in some cases, locked away. For decades, almost no one talked about it.
Culture · Technology
OpenAI CEO pressed during Vanity Fair interview as questions intensify over artificial intelligence, mental health and user safety
America · Heritage
She arrived in New York in 1889 with six sisters, little English and no welcome. By her death, Frances Xavier Cabrini had built dozens of schools, orphanages and hospitals across the Americas — and become the first U.S. citizen named a saint.
America · History
He did not discover the New World, and he never asked to have it named after him. But a Florentine merchant’s insistence that the lands across the Atlantic were something entirely new changed how Europe understood the planet.
Culture
A24’s Primetime wants audiences to reconsider Chris Hansen and the television phenomenon that made him famous.
Culture
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping cybersecurity, giving defenders powerful new tools while raising fears that hackers could automate parts of attacks that once required significant time and expertise.
Music · Music
After more than six decades of raspy vocals, stadium performances and songs that became fixtures of popular music, Sir Rod Stewart is preparing to say goodbye to life on the road. But the legendary British singer insists he is not finished with music.
World · Religion
The first American pope, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, drew one of the largest crowds of his papacy to the Champs-Élysées for an open-air Mass—in one of Europe’s most secular countries.
America · Surveillance
The license-plate-camera company says it doesn’t object to public photography of its staff. But police calls over people recording its workers have handed critics a pointed question about who gets privacy in public.
America · Crime
Prosecutors say Flynn murdered his wife and staged a break-in after carrying on a secret affair. His defense says investigators built a circumstantial case around his infidelity.
America · Housing
New apartments and a softer condominium market are giving some residents more negotiating power, but housing costs remain badly misaligned with local incomes.
World
WASHINGTON — The United States military is taking additional steps to prepare for the possibility of action involving Cuba, according to new reporting, as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign of economic and political pressure against the…
Culture
CHICAGO — For decades, the machinery behind a McDonald’s restaurant was relatively easy to recognize: grills, fryers, cash registers and drive-through headsets.
America · Crime
Braden Peters, the online personality known as Clavicular, is facing criminal charges in Massachusetts over allegations that he raped and drugged a teenager during an encounter on Cape Cod last year, bringing new scrutiny to an internet figure who gained…
America · Profile
How a South African kid with a head full of sci-fi dreams rewired the planet, pissed off half the internet, and cashed in bigger than anyone in human history.
America · The Day in America
In the grand American tradition of never doing anything halfway, Wednesday, June 10, 2026, delivered a perfect storm of geopolitical fireworks, pocketbook panic, border politics, billionaire drama, and basketball bedlam.
Music · New Music
For Toni Todaro, “Libertad” is more than the title of a new single pack. It is a declaration of arrival.
Interviews · The Amerigo Interview
Blood On Blonde in conversation with Amerigo Magazine. Listen to the full interview.
Music · Release
Canadian superstar Drake is gearing up for one of his most anticipated releases in years. His ninth studio album, Iceman, is scheduled to arrive on May 15, 2026, via OVO Sound and Republic Records.
Music · American Classics
In the pantheon of American rock music, few acts loom as large as the Eagles. Formed in Los Angeles in 1971, the band—originally consisting of Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner—did more than just sell records.
Ideas · History
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) stands as one of history’s most extraordinary figures—a military genius, visionary statesman, and transformative leader whose impact continues to resonate more than two centuries after his death.
America · The Day in America
Yesterday, May 4, 2026, offered a quintessentially American tableau: fantasy-fueled escapism clashing with the harsh realities of foreign entanglements, domestic security scares, reproductive rights battles, and economic disruption.
Culture · Food
For the vast majority of human history—roughly 99% of it—people ate what nature provided, when it provided it.
Culture · Roots
The blues is quintessentially American—an African American creation born from the pain of slavery, sharecropping, and the Mississippi Delta, with roots in field hollers, spirituals, work songs, and West African rhythms.
Music · The Business
The numbers look good on paper. Global recorded music revenues climbed again in 2025, hitting around $31-39 billion depending on the source, with streaming still driving the bulk and paid subscriptions adding tens of millions of users.
