Villamedici

Maybe it was the setting. The Villa Medici, above Rome's Piazza del Popolo, is a wonderful building, sometimes open for art and music. This year, last week, they showed films in the courtyard. The theme was the dark side of Hollywood, and on Tueday that meant Mulholland Dr.. You're wondering, ho...

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Did you notice? There’s been a little flurry of excitement about bovine belching and bottom burps. Over at The Other Place we do no more than record this for the greater good. Here, however, it gives me an excuse for a rant.

It’s all to do with global warming, of course. Global warming...

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Logo of Learning Edge A while ago Colleen the consummate communicator “invited” me (and some other pals) to follow her lead and write about our Learning Edge (whatever that is). She got the notion from a guy called Adam Kayce: “His thought is that growth is contingent on continuous learning, and it’s up to each of u...

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Burned over stretch of riverbank, still smoking, with debris all over the ground.

Someone must have dropped a cigarette down by the river a couple of days ago. Or maybe they were cooking up their dope and things got careless. Either way, the place was a smoking wreck yesterday morning. I’d love to inventory the crap the plants hide. No, actually, I wouldn’t. Sometimes I dream o...

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I’m sure the good burghers of Rome, NY, are perfectly happy with this report in the [Utica Observer-Dispatch]http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070712/NEWS/70712015

In other news, council members voted to designate a section of East Rome as the "Little Italy District."
Streets...

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