Wallpapering dumpsters? That's what the artist Finley (her last name, and the only one she uses) does. She does it in New York City, whe...

One of the cultural shocks of modern Rome is how Romans get into lines... or don't. Each time we return to Italy (even if we're gone...

Romans love their sunshine, and the city--the newer parts, especially--is appropriately laced with terraces and balconies, all with floors o...

Rome has a few street-sweeping machines, the kind with rotating brushes that tidy up near the curbs. But because automobiles normally take u...

We were disappointed--one might say devastated if it didn't seem hyperbolic--to learn that Rome had been named the second dirtiest big ...

We were surprised to learn in this morning's La Repubblica that the American anagram NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) is in use in Italy, wh...