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About peninrome

Tess Amodeo-Vickery lives and writes in Rome, Italy, where she is the European Fashion Editor for Runway Passport (www.runwaypassport.com). Recently, Tess wrote and edited documentary shooting treatments for National Geographic Television and Discovery Channel US. She has written for The Nashua Telegraph, The Milford Cabinet, Examiner.com, and was recently featured in InRomeNow.com. Her undergraduate thesis, When In Rome, earned her University Honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Tess is the front woman for Roman jazz ensemble, Bixilander Swing Orchestra, and shares a birthday with Coco Chanel. Email for freelance coverage in Italy and greater Europe.

Who is TEss? Bilingual interview in Il Fatto Bresciano

I recently had the pleasure of being on the other end of an interview when I sat down with Christian Pinna of Il Fatto Bresciano to talk about my music, my approach to songwriting and the album I’m currently working … Continue reading →

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My new music video “When I Think About You”

Music & lyrics by TEss (Tess Amodeo-Vickery) Directed by Federico Iris Osmo Tinelli Song-writing and article-writing aren’t so far off… write?

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Feature for JPeople Magazine

Posted on November 9, 2012

I was fortunate to be called out of my “writing coma” by JPeople Magazine – a Berlin-based art & culture magazine for lovers of the urban underground – to pen my personal experiences and memoirs of Roman counterculture. Check out … Continue reading →

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A Little Love(?) from Wesleying

Posted on March 2, 2012

Was googling my name earlier today (see interview question #8) and came across this shout-out from the sassy scriptors at popular college blog, Wesleying. Thanks, guys? 

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Dear Ezra: Wall Street Was No Match for a Liberal Arts Degree

Posted on February 22, 2012

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This Homegrown Youth Movement is Occupying Italy

Posted on February 22, 2012

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Velvet Revolution: inside the arts protests at Rome’s Teatro Valle

Posted on February 22, 2012

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Why I Loved Irene

Posted on August 29, 2011

I stood this morning at sunrise with my feet in the ocean at Chatham’s Lighthouse Beach. The water was unusually tepid for New England. A breeze like a pleasantly damp blanket blew as I scanned the empty beach where my … Continue reading →

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Crossing an Artist in Ostuni

Posted on August 5, 2011

“Do you know that I found her? She was there waiting for me. To give me a sign,” artist Crocifisso “Croci” Sisinni tells me as he points to a small stone angel mounted in his shop. It looks like a … Continue reading →

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2000s: The Lost Decade of Fashion

Posted on July 28, 2011

The other night, over negroni sbagliati (traditional Milanese cocktails) with fashion photographer Michele De Andreis in Rome’s gritty artist quarter of Pigneto, our conversation drifted from stylist friend, Manos Samartzis’s upcoming magazine launch. I began lamenting the early 2000s – … Continue reading →

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