San Lorenzo is known for its wall art, and justly so, and most of it is where one would expect--on the exterior walls of the neighborhood...

While walking in Rome, don't neglect the garages--the places where Romans get their cars and scooters repaired, or washed. Unlike many b...

Diablo. Diablo, face and name, are all over the in-the-city Tuscolana neighborhood, around Piazza Re di Roma, where we're living on this...

Rome's A.S. Roma football club has been looking to build a new stadium for years. One effort collapsed when it became clear that the loc...

There's a hard side to Rome, and a soft side.  The hard side is crazy traffic, failed mass transit, and a politics built on division and...

In a recent post about an afternoon spent in Val Melaina and Serpentara , I included the above photograph, of a piece of graffiti by...