Just for a moment yesterday, I imagined myself as a student at Le Cordon Bleu. Then I saw the otherwise jovial chef almost lose it when one of his assistants inadvertently threw out the jus for the roast chicken he’d been working on for the two hours previous. In that moment, I decided that I [...]
Mesdames, Messieurs, it’s time to dust off your vinyl skirts, polish those leather pants, and buff your latex corsets to a fine shine. The 9th annual Nuit Démonia 2008 takes place on December 11 at Le Loco. This “international rendez-vous of latex, leather and vinyl fetishists in Paris” is the biggest fetish event of the year in France, [...]
Who would have though that the French would be obsessed with comic books? Certainly not me, until I moved here and noticed that in any town of any noticeable size, there was at least one bookstore entirely dedicated to bandes dessinées, or BDs as they are called for short. Aside from noticing the crowds in the [...]
A long, long time ago the playing of music was based on the revolutions of a disc, but the children of the digital revolution have brought this cycle to an end. The world of music has always been a helter-skelter of cyclical fashions, but the changes today are so radical that we are still [...]
Just off the Champs-Élysées there is a special food festival going on with little huts selling gifts and yummy food like crepes, waffles, hot chocolate, hot wine, nougat, chocolates… basically everything you could ever want for the holidays. There is a train, a carousel, Santa on a sleigh, real snowmen, and Christmas trees. [...]
To relax frost-bitten limbs and de-stress from the overwhelm of dreary winter days how about treating yourself to a Lush Bath Bomb. You’ll be able to smell your way right up to their door. This UK import has opened their second shop rue Faubourg Saint Antoine in the 12th arrondissement this month. Lush is world renowned for their [...]
Here are Jean Charles de Castelbajac’s recent designs inspired by nearly everyone’s favorite childhood toy products at Lego. The clothes are modeled after Lego playsets and the hats are actual assembled Lego bricks. I really love the house hat! (Now you know what to get me for Christmas. I’m kidding. Sort of.)
Like every year, the ferris wheel is back. It’s located at the bottom of the Champs Elysées (actually in the Tuileries gardens on the Place de la Concorde side) and you can see it from miles away… This year, due to the color feast I was telling you about a few days ago, it also changes [...]
My local butcher’s demented sense of humor is best at holiday time. Last year he gave his taxidermied boar a jaunty santa cap. This year another unfortunate beast was turned into a display platter.
On September 1st, a new 5 euro coin came out. There must not be that many in circulation, because I never saw one until today when I received one after a transaction at the post office. As you can see, it’s shiny and silver and looks a little bit like a carnival token. Who knew [...]
