In the photo above, Levitte (left), celebrates his country's World Cup semifinal victory with Azouz Begag, Minister for Equal Opportunities in the French government, and Richard Barbeyron, French Consul General (Chicago) at the Alliance Francaise Wednesday.
The Cup final against Italy (also called "The Blues" or "Gli Azzurri" in Italian) will be Zidane's last game before retiring.
If you're looking for a place to watch the final, you can get all partisan by watching at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., in the Third Ward or at the Alliance Francaise. The ICC will open at noon and dish up a pizza buffet for the game, which starts at 12:55 p.m. and will be shown on a huge projection screen.
Germany, which lost to Italy, 2-0, Tuesday, faces Portugal in the third place game on Saturday.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
