Rome

In the Vatican-owned building where Ratzinger lived, the new McDonald's is open 7 days a week. The rent is the equivalent of 6,500 Big Macs, per month. The company claims that their restaurants are designed with respect to the historical...

During his recent visit to Rome the Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon gets personal  telling the story of his own experience as a refugee during the Korean conflict and urging Western countries to see the potential in the...

Talking about the Guggenheim, its designer, and the conceptual innovation that this architecture has produced is almost a pleonasm. Yet there is one aspect which, though certainly not unprecedented, is underestimated: its shape is a close relative of a the stairway leading to the...

It's time to bid farewell to the Eternal City, to slip into a hibernation for winter. But what I have witnessed and experienced in Rome will never be forgotten and, through the stories that I will be able to tell, that high will stay...

Geographically different, New York and Rome actually have a lot in common. The beauty, the monuments, the division of fans for particular teams  and some neighborhoods: in Rome there is Monti, In Rome you have Monti, in New York you...

You know when you feel the desire that everything stops for a moment, when you need to catch the breath? Anyone living in a big city needs a corner of peace, to get away from the hustle, and gather thoughts....

Living in Rome, I am intrigued by the resilience of the Italian people and by the influences they accumulated throughout history. One monday morning, at the Quadraro, I found the influential resilience in a mural (Leggi in Italiano)

An almost cruel representation of a series of characters one more egotistical, spoiled, arrogant, and vulgar than the other. The film is an intense sensorial experience that involves touch, sight and hearing. The view of two American professors on Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty which just...

As I currently absorb the rays of sun, empirical Rome has so graciously given me today, most of my former fellow inhabitants from Mulberry to 85th and Madison, are shivering on yet another unforgiving, icy day of winter. I feel a slight...

Mentre assorbo i raggi di sole che Roma oggi mi ha gentilmente donato, la maggior parte dei miei ex concittadini, da Mulberry a 85th street e Madison, batte i denti in un altro spietato, gelido giorno d'inverno.  Mi sento mordere da un leggero senso di colpa. Come se...