The teacher
In school, Michela De Pasquale was too smart to study. Now, she's studying and training horses.
Ghosts of the southern wild
Living in the American South means seeing the Confederacy as a living, breathing, and dangerous symbol.
Turner’s Venice
The British master saw many London sunsets, but those in Venice stuck with him for a lifetime.
Curse me till I’m dead
Mississippi's Highway 49 presents a vision of U.S. prisons that's very different from most musical folklore.
Silver (screen) linings
A Bologna group helps migrant filmmakers tell their stories to honor an old move-loving friend.
Done got old baby
The death of Mississippi bluesman Robert "Wolfman" Belfour feels like the end of a Delta era.
The calming unknown
Returning to the Mississippi Delta from a faraway land can present real and present challenges.
Pope and presidents
Among recent popes, John Paul II got to know U.S. presidents best, but the relationships differed.
Re-used, with love
A group of Bologna women is busy recycling clothes and household items so that nothing goes to waste.
No love lost
Pillars of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were anything but bosom buddies.
Flavia’s passion
How a professional dancer from Bologna landed in New York and built a life that's true to who she is.