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From a tiny booth in the back of St. John in Lateran, the Holy See's pilgrim agency has been quietly asking tourists if they want to tour Rome's oldest basilica with an iPod in hand loaded with an app specially designed to access the place's art, architecture and Christian history.

Vatican lends iPods to pilgrims 2011

From a tiny booth in the back of St. John in Lateran, the Holy See's pilgrim agency has been quietly asking tourists if they want to tour Rome's oldest basilica with an iPod in hand loaded with an app specially designed to access the place's art, architecture and Christian history.

Vatican lends iPods to pilgrims 2011

The place's history is as blurry as a drunk's double vision.

Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Cheers Leader Nancy Ruhling 2011

Get breakfast in bed and look out the window at some of the place's "pets."

The Bling Dynasty 2010

As neighborhoods change these figures often sit between the place's old and new incarnations, becoming the positive "local color" that gives a gentrifying area its coveted character.

Gary Dauphin: Shades of Gentrification Gary Dauphin 2010

The place's history is as blurry as a drunk's double vision.

Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Cheers Leader Nancy Ruhling 2011

Despite the place's storied jazz history I can't find any evidence that there's been a single jazz event there any time recently.

Eli Lehrer: Don't Save the Lincoln Theater Eli Lehrer 2011

Yet its setting right on the water near the Bay Bridge is the seafood place's greatest draw.

Waterbar Ben Worthen 2011

Despite the place's storied jazz history I can't find any evidence that there's been a single jazz event there any time recently.

Eli Lehrer: Don't Save the Lincoln Theater Eli Lehrer 2011

As neighborhoods change these figures often sit between the place's old and new incarnations, becoming the positive "local color" that gives a gentrifying area its coveted character.

Gary Dauphin: Shades of Gentrification Gary Dauphin 2010