The Soul of a City The sites, bites, and characters that make Palermo one of the most under-appreciated cities in the world
Silent on the Strait An uneasy calm on the Strait of Sicily, one of the world’s deadliest border crossings. A Time.com/Roads & Kingdoms report.
Meeting (the other) Joe Paterno A ludicrous search for answers about Penn State, in the Sicilian city of Paternò
One Last Night Roads & Kingdoms’ last evening in Sicily, featuring fretting Germans, nocturnal bambini, feuding Sicilians and what seems to be a Hobbit selling hashish.
Red Sauce Diaries: When More is More Few cultures know how to gild the lily quite like the Sicilians. Three island-wide examples of delicious excess
Corleone Country: Fire in the Belly Corleone, still trading on the fictions of the Godfather series, was nonetheless home to a very real, very murderous mafia. Plus: just two hotels, one of them quite shitty. R&K’s Sicily trip continues.
When You’re Here, You’re Famiglia Two Americans, a dozen Sicilians and a four-hour al fresco dinner in the coastal village of Ribera.