Cut and Blow, Wash and Go
Friday, June 25th, 2010A hair-stylist for Rome’s English-speaking community? With the classic elegance of Italian style andh the casual sophistication of California it may be just your thing!
Review: Golden Circus In The City
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Tax amnesty nets Italy €95bn windfall
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Jack Daniel’s family’s Milan home robbed
Monday, December 28th, 2009Rome barber-cum-brothel shut down
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Court: ’sticking out tongue’ a crime
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Dec’09-Jan’10: Road races for runners in Rome/Lazio
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009[ 4 October 2009 09:00 to 8 November 2009 09:00. ] From fun runs to marathons and even ultra-marathons. Road races, cross country running and more around Rome and Lazio this month.
Bend it like Phelps - Fitness tips
Monday, December 14th, 2009Juventus targeted over racist chants
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Alonso to race for Ferrari in 2010
Monday, December 7th, 2009Parisse to miss 6 Nations
Sunday, December 6th, 2009Brothers clinch golf World Cup for Italy
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Tight budget? Try shopping ‘usato’
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Fashion doesn’t always need to be a noose around your wallet’s neck. Find out how to make the most of Rome’s mercatini to save money and use your creativity to make a great outfit, or more. First published in March 2009.
Cut and Blow, Wash and Go
Friday, June 25th, 2010Parco Leonardo: a Monument to Consumerism
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Flair for Home Furnishings
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Last-minute Shopping Ideas for the Festive Season
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009‘Worthy Cause Shop’ this Christmas
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Italian singer takes the web by storm
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Sayaka Alessandra, Youtube’s most subscribed female singer/musician in Italy, was born in Rome but spent her childhood in Bangladesh and India. She returned to Rome in 1994, attended Marymount International School, then St. Stephen’s High School, where she sang in the choir directed by Richard Trythall. In 2008 she graduated from The [...]
Review: Golden Circus In The City
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
2010 had a colourful start when the Golden Circus Festival, now in it’s 26th year, arrived at the Teatro Tendatrisce arena on 23rd December with lights, drum rolls, and trapeze artists exhibiting their skills, followed by animals and clowns.
ARS ARCANA: The secret science of Magic in the Roman World
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Magic. The term stirs contrasting reactions in the minds of men: suspicion, fear, doubt, mockery… It is a controversial term, mostly because its definition leads to subjective interpretation and its connotation has varied across the centuries. First published in February 2008.
Latin Dying Out… Again
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Circero and Caesar’s language has been scrapped from many school curricula in recent decades. Now, it is also disappearing in the Roman Catholic Church, the institution which had kept it alive for many centuries. Does this signal the ancient language’s second death since the fall of the Roman Empire? First published in April 2007.
Rome’s historic libraries
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
If ‘your library is your portrait’, as Victorian journalist Holbrook Jackson once wrote, then Rome’s three great libraries – the Angelica Library, the Casanatense Library, the Collegio Romano’s Crociera – certainly offer an impressive likeness to their setting. First published in March 2008.
Xmas in Rome: Goodwill, or God-Willing?
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Easter is the faith-defining Christian celebration yet Christmas is easily the most popular - both now and in times past. TRF gets in the Christmas spirit with some reflections on its traditional and religious – pagan and Christian – aspects in Rome.
Cover Story:
Caesar’s Little Helpers - Rome Christmas shopping special
Current Issue:
Dec 09/Jan 10 - out now!
Table of Contents:
Worthy Cause Shopping, gift ideas, Rome’s Mithraic temples, Nativity scenes in Rome, cooking in Lazio
Capena on the Via Tiberina
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Grapes, olive oil, sunsets, races, good food, and wine flowing from a lions-head statue… Juliet Haydock takes us on journey to Rome’s picturesque neighbour Capena in the eighties; round its Rocca, traditions, and culture; and right back to Capena today. First published in April 2008.
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Bracciano’s Museo dell’Aeronautica
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Rome’s Romantic hit parade
Sunday, December 27th, 2009Xmas in Rome: Eat, Drink, Party and Pray
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Christmas Markets in Rome and Lazio
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Presepe/Nativity Scenes in Rome and Lazio
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Pizza a Taglio, a Roman speciality
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010If you haven’t tried ‘Pizza a taglio’, you are missing out on one of Rome’s true culinary delights. Far from being mere filler junk food, ‘pizza by the slice’ in Rome is a marvel. First published in February 2006.
Have a Bubbly New Year: Prosecco
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Food, Glorious Food - Gastronomic shopping in Rome
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009Grapevine: Red or White this Christmas?
Monday, December 21st, 2009Grapevine: Fine Wine Fit for Flavians
Monday, December 14th, 2009Grapevine: Jarred’s Top 10 Proseccos
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
‘Pane e Coperto’ - Understanding the Italian Budget
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010What do restaurant visits, beaches, annual passes for public transport, lawyers’ fees and unmarried couples have in common? At first sight, not very much it would seem. But these are all issues intimately linked in the end-of-year debate in the Italian parliament on the 2007 finanziaria, the budget revision. First published in January 2007.
Latin Dying Out… Again
Sunday, January 10th, 2010Point of Law: Starting up a Business in Italy
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Flight of the Belgian Bumblebee: New Year’s Day Tiber dive
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Xmas in Rome: Goodwill, or God-Willing?
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009American Academy appoints new director
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
A Villino in the ‘Pigneto’
Monday, January 18th, 2010Rome is a big city and visitors are often content with a flavour of what tourist guides offer. Sitting at a table in Trastevere or Testaccio, you may feel that that is where the real Rome lies, whereas a quick glance around the tables would reveal the presence of few Romans, if any. First published in October 2008.
