Holiday travel means airport-hopping, and aside from shops, that means trouble.
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Water
What you take for granted and let go may be what you most need to treasure.
Ufomammut and Ielsai
A Milan band and a Milan-based musician and label chief make 2010 stand out.
2011 tips
If you want Rome food adventures, seek out the road-less-traveled.
Alcove
For perspective, talk to the Little Match Girl about the holidays.
Luka and the Fire of Life
Wizardly charm from Salman Rushdie in this erudite book for his son.
Rome, California?
If the Getty gets its way, a Turner painting of Rome may be headed to Malibu.
Sweet victory
Taking on a Piazza Navona vendor over the promise of a donut is a handful.
Bambola
Fantasy worlds can help articulate the transition to sexual adulthood.
Butchered
Hair matters. So put your mom duties aside and take care of yours — or else.
Big lug
Give Italy a snow-snap and it zealously hurls itself into the abyss.
Emotional iconography
Remembrance of things past can get jumbled, but not the truth of hard times.