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🌟🌟🌟🌟☆   4 Stars It's really hard for me to properly rate this as it was such a personal pleasure to my wife and I....

  🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 Stars I am engaged in the major literary project called "200 Views of Rome" consisting of 200 rev...

🌟🌟🌟🌟☆ 4 Stars Oh, I love this little corner. Across from the Ditta Poggi art store. The Prosciutteria is up that lit...

🌟🌟🌟☆☆   3 Stars Is this still there? It wasn't very busy. I had a panini here once. It was passable. Wait, let me ge...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟   5 Stars Oh! A Church! In Rome? What's this doing here? But though my head may spin in trying to re...

🌟🌟🌟☆☆ 3 Stars Also called "Friends". This is kind of a typical mediocre Roman restaurant with a casual, somewhat ...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 Stars Here we have another in an amazingly long line of churches in Rome that I must recommend with the faint ...

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 Stars Very nice French church near a good coffee shop.  HA! I really enjoy that understatement. So, actually, ...

5 Stars It may be hard to leave a review for The Palazzo Barberini Cafe on TripAdvisor or anywhere else on the Internet because, sadly...

3 Stars An old Library Italians use that they will let you peep at. Interesting interior that's fun to see, like a mediocre...

4 Stars Dime a dozen Roman Church (Mainly Renaissance, I believe). This means it would be hardly worth the 15 minutes trouble i...

5 Stars Well, what's the point, and it could hardly need another review, another person suggesting you see it, my favorite Cl...

In the course of four or five years of blogging the question has come up as to what is appropriate for me to write about here. So I a...

  Bob Dylan flew in to have cocktails with me just this last Thursday. Regardless of all his fame and money and such, it's ver...

You might think that as the B illionaire Chief Executive of clerkmanifesto I would be above the small maneuverings of politics. Wha...

  Ohhh. Fun!  It's not all work work work around here at the library. Sometimes there's fun! A man came to the front desk...

As you will see this joke is meant for the oral tradition. So it would be best if you read it to yourself, listening to it and ignorin...

Yesterday in this space I started out by telling you about how readers around here come and go. And then I was going to tell you about...

It is a historical fact that I have been forced to face in the course of writing this blog that many readers come and go. Through som...

There is an Internet motif I think of as "The dream and the reality". It is generally presented as two pictures. The first ...