What's new in Rome this summer: higher fees, new spaces, and a city in transformation.
Tourists arriving in Rome this summer will find that the Eternal City looks – and costs – slightly different from what they may remember. Meanwhile several ambitious long-term projects are also well underway, quietly reshaping how Rome will be experienced in summers still to come.
The Pantheon: a higher price…
Thousands of international students travel to Italy's capital every year to deep dive into the art and language and soak up the history. Study Abroad programs provide an essential supplement to education that equips future leaders in all sectors to address urgent issues shared across cultures. If you are looking to change your perspective, develop skills outside of a classroom setting, and learn…
A remarkable cultural space in Rome is rewriting the relationship between antiquity and contemporary art.
Amid the majestic setting of Trajan’s Forum in the ancient heart of Rome sits FOROF, a venue whose mission is to promote contemporary art in dialogue with the history of its unique space.
FOROF is built around a specific archaeological site rather than a conventional gallery collection, and…
80 years ago, a landmark referendum empowered women in Italy and led to the birth of the Italian Republic.
On 2 June 1946, millions of Italian women entered polling stations across a country still scarred by war and queued to do something their mothers and grandmothers had been denied: cast a vote at national level.
The occasion was the institutional referendum in which the Italian people chose…
Nakaalpas si Bato, 'with a little help from his friends'
Our first time visiting a show like this! Conventions weren’t very popular in Greece when I got into card games. They weren’t popular 6 years after that, when I got into tabletop RPGs. They became slightly popular 5 years after that, when I somewhat got into miniature gaming. Now, there are a few large ones […]
Tribute Games discusses Marvel Cosmic Invasion, TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, character choices, modern beat ’em up design, and what makes retro-inspired action work today.
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Valve's Steam Deck price hike is a warning sign. If a handheld just jumped to $949, what is the Steam Machine going to cost?
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Remembering the odd Slayer album that somehow still hit the Billboard 200
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Italy marks eight decades since voters chose to abolish the monarchy and establish a democratic republic in the ruins of the second world war.
The Festa della Repubblica, celebrated with a national public holiday in Italy every year on 2 June, marks a significant milestone in 2026.
The annual holiday commemorates the institutional referendum of 2 and 3 June 1946 in which Italians were asked, for…
“War is God’s way of teaching geography to Americans,” Mark Twain allegedly once quipped. The current war in Iran has a particularly painful lesson in store.
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Model Federico Battisti @Next Milan
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Grooming Chiara Viola
Photo Editor Mila Forte
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Gas Pipelines, F-35s and the Mattei Plan: Italy Is Playing Its Mediterranean Hand With Unusual Seriousness
From Eni's €24 Billion African Energy Push to F-35s and GCAP, Italy Is Quietly Assembling the Architecture of Regional Dominance.
The question would have seemed faintly absurd ten years ago. Italy: the country of chronic governments, stalled reforms and a Calimero complex so deep it had…
There are controversial games, and then there are games that exist purely to indulge in cruelty. A game that was recently brought to my attention, Plantation Simulator, falls squarely into the latter category, and the more I looked at it, the more I kept asking myself how something like this even made it this far. [...]
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Memorial stickers for fallen Israeli soldiers have appeared on the walls of Rome’s Jewish School.
New memorials in Rome are rare, but one new monument appears on the walls of the Jewish School in Rome. Its construction appears simple: small, rectangular stickers containing a picture and a short text in Hebrew. Look closely and you might be surprised to find that there are no Italian nationals…
Music is the food of love, but what would fuel the final feast of some favorites of the nu world?
Gallery director stresses that the call for expansion proposals is at a very early stage, no location has been chosen, and that the masterpieces currently on display will not be relocated. Rome's Galleria Borghese has moved to reassure critics and clarify the scope of its ambitions following a heated public debate over plans to expand the celebrated museum with a new building near the…
How one location for metalheads is there to both entertain and to teach them an education that was left out of the textbooks.
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After all these decades, Nintendo has finally decided to revisit its sci-fi on-rails shooter, Star Fox. It’s about time, and if you’re a fan of the series, you’re likely super happy right about now. However, where does that leave fans of the genre who either don’t have a Nintendo Switch 2, or developers who gave [...]
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Journalists are fighting back...together
The nu metal godfathers dropped a single out of nowhere, and we have some thoughts.
In spite of all the discourse, I'll keep dancing along with the rhythm.
So why don't you run, run back to school?
Spoiler alert: opinions are mixed.
“A lot of people are going to understand,” Chamel Abdulkarim reportedly told his girlfriend over the phone just moments after burning down the 1.2 million square foot Kimberly Clark distribution center where he worked.
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Square Enix is bringing Midgar to the tabletop with Ascend the Shinra Tower – FINAL FANTASY VII Board Game, a cooperative balance game set to release in January 2027. In this new adaptation, players work together to climb the iconic Shinra Tower, stacking Floor and Wall tiles of varying heights to build upward while maintaining [...]
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Life is a waterfall... and sometimes it's just piss.
This 4/20, get loose and get high if you so choose.
Lunch Breaks, August Holidays and Why the Italian Waiter Won't Bring Your Bill Until You Ask
There is a moment that most Americans experience within their first few days in Italy that no guidebook quite prepares them for. It is usually around 1pm on a Tuesday, when they walk into a restaurant and are shown to a table, handed a menu, and then left entirely alone for twenty minutes while the waiter…