Progress....in Tuscolano!

Every edition of La Repubblica , Italy's rough equivalent of the New York Times , contains something--an article or a letter to the edit...

Best Restaurant in Rome - Mithos La Taverna dell'Allegria

Interior - looking towards one set of room; there are more tables in back of the camera view, but you can see the narrowness of the restaura...

PRESENTE: A Close Look at a Tuscolano Poster

While spending a pleasant evening in the quartiere of Tuscolano, one of our old haunts, we--Dianne, actually--noticed a poster.  On the surf...

Apartment Gardening, in Rome

Rome is overwhelmingly a city of apartments, rather than houses, but that doesn't stop the gardeners, who benefit from a long growing se...

Massacre in Tuscolano: Rome's Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead)

RST welcomes Paul Baxa as guest blogger.  Baxa is Assistant Professor of History at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, and the author ...

Garage Art: the Pinup in Rome

Grease monkeys like their pinups.  Back where the work is done, where the oil is changed and the tires rotated, there's usually a poster...