May 16, 2008 
October/November 2007 Table of Contents
Published: March 15, 2010
 
Culture+Travel: Rome: The Rise of His Roman Empire
Culture+Travel: Compass Rome
Culture+Travel: Venice Glass Houses
Culture+Travel: Yo Soy Grafitero
Culture+Travel: One New Wonder
Culture+Travel: When In … London
Culture+Travel: Genius Loci LA
Culture+Travel: Cultural Currents
Culture+Travel: Home From Home India
FEATURES
Chef Carlo Cracco crafts flourless pasta from egg yolks and spikes his risotto with ginger. Your Italian grandma would plotz.
By Anya Von Bremzen. Portrait by Alessandro Rizzi. Food Photographs by Bob Noto
75 Compass: Carlo Cracco’s favorite Milan spots. Plus, where to find Italy’s new-wave cuisine. 
In 1959, the Eternal City made an indelible impression on architect Richard Meier. Lately he’s been returning the favor, leaving his own modernist mark on the ancient skyline.
By Fred Bernstein. Portrait by Dean Kaufman
82 Compass: How to navigate Richard Meier’s Rome. 
Real estate developer Francesco Morawetz came very close to making a
$20 million mistake. Instead he became an unlikely Murano glass magnate, building an establishment that’s part
private club, part second home, and part crystal palace.
By Mark Ellwood.
Photographs by Oliviero Toscani 90 Compass: Venice during the closing weeks of the Biennale. 
In Burgundy’s Côte d’Or, five wine families reign supreme.
By Ted Loos. Photographs by Estelle Hanania
99 Compass: Around Burgundy’s wine region. Plus, sources for the top vintages. 
100
With a film crew in tow, a street
artist hits the road and paints
his way through Latin America.
By James Gaddy
Etched in stone: His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan
expounds on the breathtaking beauty of Petra, the ancient city carved into sandstone. Photographs by Ake E. Lindman
111 Compass: How to get around Petra.
DEPARTMENTS
  
The season’s arts and travel highlights around the world.
What’s new and notable in the borough that hosts BAM’s 25th Next Wave Festival.
What to do while you’re in town for the Frieze Art Fair.
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In Los Angeles, a new Noah’s Ark that visitors of all ages can get aboard. By Michael Webb
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The zenith of Sol LeWitt’s Star series is secreted in a corner of New York’s Whitney Museum. By Adam D. Weinberg
Read the Article 
Since the Story Corps oral-history project launched in 2003, the voices
of America have resonated on the airwaves. Now they leap off the page, too. By
Susan Chumsky
Read the Article 
India’s Amanbagh mixes the ultimate luxury with soulful surroundings.
By Catherine Fairweather 
When it comes to flavorful oysters, it’s all about location, location, location, from coast to coast. By Rowan Jacobsen
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Who needs vineyards when you can blend your own wine from the comfort of your home computer? By Melissa Clark
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With a new pair of architecturally daring museums,
Denver is going high art. By Heather Smith MacIsaac
Read the Article 58 Compass: Mile High City highlights. 
Sydney’s next explosive neighborhood isn’t quite ready for prime time, but give it a moment.
By Katrina Strickland
64 Compass: Redfern (plus Waterloo and Surry Hills) walkabout. Plus, collecting Aboriginal art. 
Thomas Jefferson took the waters at Hot Springs, Virginia; you can, too.
By Heather Smith MacIsaac
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