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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italians have very strict rules when it comes to making carbonara. The classic combination of Italian pasta, pork and cheese are mixed with egg yolks and pepper preferably just moments before serving to create the perfect dish. Which is why, when jars of a pale creamy sauce

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Hitting the streets is a great way to catch a city’s real pulse — drifting through indie stores, ducking into coffee shops or grabbing a barstool somewhere lively. As global listing guide Time Out puts it, a city’s streets are where you’ll find “local life at its most authentic.”

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — For more than two centuries, the Antico Caffè Greco has been part of the cultural landscape of Rome. Authors and artists, movie stars and princesses — even cowboys — have all made the pilgrimage to Via dei Condotti, at the foot of the Spanish Steps, to soak

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — The Spring-Summer 2026 collections, shown across the main fashion capitals of New York, London, Milan and Paris during September and October, marked a season of significant change as a number of high-profile designers made their debuts at big brands. While many of those designs are not yet available for

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a buzzy, record-breaking night. Early on, the headlining artwork by Gustav Klimt, “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer,”

By Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN (CNN) — Flight delays and the recent government shutdown are pushing more travelers onto US highways this Thanksgiving, raising the risk of wrecks on what is already one of the most dangerous travel periods of the year, data shows. The crash rate on the Sunday after Thanksgiving is 65% higher compared

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction in New York this week. The surrealist painting, being sold on November 20 by a private collector, is generating a frenzy of excitement, with experts predicting it could become the most

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — On Sunday, Jennifer Lawrence arrived at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles, part movie star, part walking advert. Her white silk dress, draped across her chest in an off-the-shoulder style with a cascading leg split, was designed by Jonathan Anderson for Dior — the French luxury label for which

By Rachel Tashjian, Leah Dolan, CNN New York (CNN) — What’s the best dressed painting of all time? It’s a question the Metropolitan Museum of Art hopes to answer with its next Costume Institute exhibition, which it revealed on Monday morning will be “Costume Art.” Opening May 10, the showcase will pair almost 200 artworks

By Richard Collett, CNN (CNN) — For decades, Somalia’s name has been shorthand for conflict, piracy and danger. Since the country’s civil war began in the 1990s, the country has had relatively few Western visitors. Yet, against the odds, the East African nation is now seeing a quiet rise in foreign tourists. About 10,000 tourists