Tuesday, October 17, 2023
36 Hours Around Piazza Navona
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A friend recently asked us for suggestions of what to do around Piazza Navona and Campo de' Fiori. She was clear that she and her compa...
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Life is better with a broomstick: creative solutions to appliance problems in Rome
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Italian ingenuity often has to extend to making appliances work. Here a broom handle is used to keep the oven on. But it wasn't the o...
Monday, September 11, 2023
A statue of Carabinieri leads to the question: What was the role of this national armed force under Fascism?
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La pattuglia nella tempesta. One of the rabbit holes we went down this year started on the day we flew into Rome and wandered into the par...
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Friday, July 21, 2023
Barbie Has No Knees (and Superman has no genitals): Reflecting on the historical significance of the iconic doll through an exhibit at the Vittoriano
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With Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" scheduled to open tonight in theaters, well, everywhere, we are re-posting Bill's 2016 post ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Quarticciolo: A Visit to Rome's Working-Class Periphery
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We knew almost nothing about the quartiere of Quarticciolo when we spent a couple of hours there this Spring, except that it was a working-c...
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