I used to fact check Robert Gottlieb’s dance coverage when I was starting out and he was always super nice and patient on the phone even when I (gulp) suggested changes for readability. Back then I had no clue the giant I was correcting about pirouettes.

.Jason Horowitz takes his hooptie to Umbria: "Probably a cardinal will get murdered." TOWN&COUNTRY townandcountrymag.com/leisure/travel…

“What happened here, darling?” asks Bolza, who wears a brimmed hat adorned with quills, about a toppled plant in the barn studio. “The pot is too small, darling,” says Nencia, who also wears a brimmed hat adorned with quills. Hanging at Umbria’s stunning Reschio for TOWN&COUNTRY

Today, as Rome gives its last pitch to host the Expo World’s Fair, it has 2 major obstacles blocking a fantastic, maybe fantastical, future: A spending spree from its Saudi rival and Rome itself. Degradation is not exactly the stuff of campaign brochures nytimes.com/2023/06/19/wor…

They had names. They had families. Timely and heartbreaking reporting by Christina Goldbaum & Zia ur-Rehman about the Pakistani village that saw its sons drown in the Mediterranean off Greece last week. nytimes.com/2023/06/21/wor…

Yes. But also… nytimes.com/2023/06/19/wor… nytimes.com/2023/06/21/wor… nytimes.com/2023/06/16/wor… nytimes.com/2023/06/21/wor…

It’s a good paper.

Going back on here to say how bummed I am that Sinead O’Connor died. My first concert, at Jones Beach (with my mom!), and man oh man is Mandinka a beautiful song.

“So many people are showing us support,” said the Ukrainian teenager, who wept as young Catholics hugged her and a priest stopped to wipe away her tears. “The pope — I don’t think so.” nytimes.com/2023/08/05/wor…

Giorgia Meloni tells Italy she is dumping her longtime partner after the gaffe-prone news commentator is caught floating threesomes and foursomes in hot mic moments to women who were not the prime minister of Italy. nytimes.com/2023/10/20/wor…

Silvio Berlusconi spent some of his last years ordering mail-order art off late night television and many of the paintings are now stashed in an enormous hangar that critics have characterized as a sort of Raiders of the Lousy Art warehouse. nytimes.com/2023/10/27/wor…

As Giorgia Meloni moved from the political margins of her youth to the center of Italian life, the right-wing Hobbit subculture has followed her up to Italy’s temples of high art. From the new Tolkien exhibit, complete with “Tolkienian” Obama misquotes!nytimes.com/2023/11/17/wor…

Annamo bene…. “Today’s A.I. technology cannot destroy humanity.” nytimes.com/2023/11/18/tec…

Happy Cinepanettone day from Cortina! “Behind him, a digital screen beamed the film’s original poster, featuring ski bunnies tumbling together in a snowball. Then it suddenly changed to footage of an environmental prize awarded to F. Murray Abraham.” nytimes.com/2023/12/30/wor…

My latest, perhaps the most difficult story I’ve ever had to report and write:

Seagulls don’t fail me now!

Clap along if you feel like a dome without a roof

The Cardinal Who Didn’t Come in From the Cold. Becciu overcomes FOMO, promises not to crash conclave. Swiss Guard stand down. nytimes.com/2025/04/29/wor…

Seagulls don’t fail me now!