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In August, it pays to be under 30 in Rome, but in September and October, anyone can take advantage of the city's newest special offer: late-night hours at select museums. Fridays The Vatican Museums will stay open until 11 p.m., with the last entrance at 9:30 p.m. You'll have to reserve a ticket online in advance; €14 ($19.70), plus a €4 ($5.60) online reservation fee. Saturdays Go museum-hopping: Ara Pacis Museum is architect Richard Meier's controversial modern glass home for a marble altar consecrated in 9 B.C.; the Capitoline Museums display a staggering collection of Roman statues and medieval and Renaissance art; and the Centrale Montemartini is a former power plant whose machinery sets off ancient statuary more recently acquired by the Capitoline Museums. Tickets for Ara Pacis are €6.50 ($9) and a combined ticket for the Capitoline Museums and Centrale Montemartini—valid for seven days—is €8.50 ($12). Sundays Cap off the weekend with a moonlit stroll through the Colosseum and the Forum, €9 ($13) total. If you plan to visit all these attractions, it's worth purchasing the Roma Pass. It costs €23 ($33) and gets you free admission to the first two attractions visited, plus discounts at subsequent attractions and select events, and unlimited rides on public transportation for three consecutive days. Maximize the value of the card by visiting two expensive attractions first. Get more details and purchase the card at romapass.it.

More than 20 Vermont artisan foodmakers—among them seven cheesemakers—will open their doors to the public this Saturday. The open studio day is part of a weekend-long celebration of cheese. Vermont has the largest number of artisan cheesemakers per capita (it's a small state, but still…). In order to showcase this handiwork, the first ever Vermont Cheesemakers Festival is scheduled for Sunday at Shelburne Farms, about six miles south of Burlington. The festival can already be called a success; tickets were available to the first 1,000 takers (at $20 a pop), and they're now all sold out. No matter—if you're hungry to taste artisan food, the state delivers. In addition to the cheesemakers participating in the Open Studios on Saturday, there are also wineries (like Boyden Valley), breweries (like Magic Hat), and other foodmakers (like Ben & Jerry's) that will be open for small tastes and tours. Intrigued, but busy this weekend? The good folks at the Vermont Cheese Council have published a Vermont Cheese Trail map with almost 40 farms and creameries stretching across the state. Visitors can meet the cheesemakers, see the farm animals, and learn how the cheese is made—year-round.

Tomorrow (Thursday), Bose puts on sale its new QuietComfort 15 noise-canceling headphones, which aim to be the "gold standard" of such devices. The price is $300. The new device replaces one of the company's previous high-end models, the QuietComfort 2. It adds an external microphone to each ear cup, providing additional information to help cancel out more noise. It also improves upon the device's processing power as well as the design of the leather-and-foam ear cushions. I tested the QC15s this morning under the supervision of Bose staff people. Stereos blasted a recording of a jet plane mid-flight. A sound pressure level meter measured a 90 decibel reading, well above an approximately 50 decibel reading for the ordinary noise level in a city store. I found that the QC15 headphones dramatically reduced the sound of the jet plane noise, noticeably more so than with the previous version of Bose headphones, the QC2. Audio quality and headset comfort are what distinguish Bose's products from comparable high-end products. In a test of the QC15, sound reproduction of a song was note perfect, and the earcups rested gently around the ears rather than push down on the ears itself. The headphones are iPhone-compatible out of the box and are powered by triple-A batteries tucked discreetly into one of the earcups. [Bose] ELSEWHERE Gizmodo's review