Ahh…French women.
I’m a little bit obsessed with them. We share the same sidewalks and yet seem to occupy two different planets. I feel foreign around them, like a cross-dresser in their midst.
And yet I find myself slowly migrating and starting to mimic their strange behavior. Just look what I did to my face!
It occurred […]

“Mr Sarkozy… please, in a few words, describe one of the qualities that you admire in your competition.”
“Mme Royal has an extraordinary tenacity.”
“Mme Royal… please, in a few words, describe one of the qualities that you admire in your competition.”
“Mr Sarkozy has an answer to everything.”
Can I just say “Meow?”
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Whoever said April was the cruelest month just hasn’t been in Paris for the past 30 days. Not a peep of complaint about the absolutely fabulous weather we’ve been enjoying. But that doesn’t preclude plenty of concern about the possibility of a very hot summer this year. According to news reports not only is this […]

Pop superstar Anastacia (”I’m Outta Love,” “Left Outside Alone”) was at Black Calvados with her new hubby (and bodyguard) Wayne Newton. The two were married last weekend in Mexico, and stopped in Paris for some amour before heading off to ___(nice island)___ for honeymoon part II. (yikes, she revealed the location to me but apparently […]

Yesterday I had the wonderful privilege of attending a tasting at Culinary Culture Club 116, a unique private loft that specializes in Japanese food events and presentations. My friend Patrice Snoeck, a prominent Paris event and party planner, invited me to taste some samples for a big event his company, And So What, is producing […]

“Little Jaffna“, around metros Gare du Nord, La Chapelle, and Louis Blanc, looks a bit down at heel but you’ll find shops selling handmade saris (Saree Palace, 182 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis), cheap and cheerful supermarkets, jewelry shops, Indian music stores, travel agencies (with good deals on flights to India at about 500 euros), and […]

Last week in Paris, the Mairie took the unheard-of step of LETTING PEOPLE SIT ON THE GRASS. All over the city, those fussy signs saying Pelouse Interdite or even Pelouse en Repos (Resting Lawn) have been taken down and replaced with joyful Pelouse Ouverte signs covered with pictures of daisies.
Of course pelouse has several different […]

Did you happen to see the dashing men driving around in the pimped out Rolls Royce convertible this week? For a second I thought the gay pride parade had started a few months early, but then I realized it was Jean Paul Gaultier up to his promotional antics.
Gaultier is launching a new men’s perfume called […]

Accent aigu or accent grave? So hard to know, sometimes. And so many French words are so very close. In fact, the word for “close” is près. The word for “fields” is prés. It is confusing. They sound almost the same. But two very different words. Any French student worth his dictée score can tell […]

I knew I didn’t belong in this neighborhood…

I’d fit in better in the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, or the ninth, or perhaps even in the 1st, the 8th, the 15th, the 16th, and the 17th: these ten out of the twenty Parisian arrondissements preferred Sarko to Ségo on Sunday.  And in the […]