ROME - While my co-workers slogged away, proofing articles on Italy’s corruption, I slid out of my chair and took sanctuary in the multi-sensory cinema experience of the Time Elevator in

NEW YORK - In just a short walk around Broadway, you will immediately notice a large number of spaces for rent. These are mostly restaurants.

ROME - Newsreels of Hitler’s speeches are frightening, while those of Mussolini, with his jutting jaw and pouting mouth, are

ROME - “To have a penis is to be chained to a madman” wrote Sophocles more than 2500 years ago. He was right then and he is still right today.

FLORENCE- Gucci has taken a bold step forward in renouncing fur for their Spring-Summer 2018 collection. Bizzarri has spoken about fur being “out of fas

ROME - Discovering good narration on ancient women is like finding a female with which Zeus wasn’t enamoured: extremely rare, and when finally sought, perpetually coated in tropes.

ROME - My phone died on the way to 6° Senso, I forgot the name of the road and embarked in an aimless meandering through the streets between the Spanish steps and Piazza del Popolo.

ROME - At university I drank gin and tonic, discerning only the drinkable from the undrinkable.

 ROME -- Kevin Murray is an Australian painter who has lived and worked in Rome for most of his life.

COSENZA - On Friday, the Premio de la Cultura Mediterranea celebrated the eleventh year of its inception with an awards ceremony filled with fanfare; it

ROME - The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Fellow’s Programme operates in a manner counter to the employment laws of some member states, a well placed FAO source contends.

ROME– A press conference was held Tuesday in advance of the partial opening of the fourth and fifth levels of the Colosseum after more than 40 years of closure.

ROME - The annual monologue show of the English Theatre of Rome was delightfully more creative than the title suggests.

ROME – The National Gallery of Modern Art emerges into view from the gardens of Villa Borghese, a stunning building of classical grandeur.

ROME - The Palladium Theatre, once a historical cinema, still reverberates with the elegant charm of the silent era.

NAPLES- This week has not been a good one for Italian public education.

 ROME- We met by Trajan’s column, bathed in the golden light of the mellow September sun, for our afternoon wander through the ancient history of the Eternal City.

ROME- The timeless grace and elegance of one of the most beloved actresses of all time, Audrey Hepburn, are featured in the official poster of the 12th Rome Film Fest, produced by the Fondazione Ci

ROME -This weekend, Roman movie theatres “Giulio Cesare” and “Barberini” will be screening "Piazza Vittorio," a charming documentary that ran out of

VENICE- Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water wins the Golden Lion for best film, while Italian directors and actors fail to feature in the Venice Film Festival awards.

 NAPLES -- The Italian Insider print issue for September went on sale in 300 news stands in the city of Naples and its surrounds Saturday including newsagents in the islands of Capri and Ischia as

 ROME- As the 147th anniversary of the Porta Pia Breach of 1870 approaches, which marked the end of the papal state and its incorporation into the newly formed Italian nation, Rome prepares to cele