An arty new ‘zine with spiffy production values has just launched, called Mademoiselle London. With text in French and in English, the 32-page debut brims with emotions every young expat feels. The prose and poems are on the navel-gazing side, but the illustrations are inspired observations of multi-culti life set against the Old World background.
Within days of Time magazine’s publication of Don Morrison’s article on the decline of France as an international cultural power, French media “lit up like the Eiffel Tower in full sparkle.” Major French figures like Didier Jacob, Maurice Druon, Teresa Cremisi, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, and François Busnel weighed in. The blogosphere went wild. Even foreigners got [...]
I was happy to learn on Friday that the crime author Lalie Walker was acquitted of all charges in the trial that pitted her against the owners of the Marché Saint Pierre. The management at the fabric store had accused her of harming the image of the shop, simply because she had set one of her stories, [...]
My friend and superb restaurant critic Alec Lobrano has updated his bestselling book Hungry for Paris. Hungry for Paris was first published in 2008 to rave reviews and has become an indispensable source for avid foodies combing the city for the best restaurants.In the 2010 edition Alec has removed some restaurants that are no longer [...]
Alan Riding: And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. Were artists “saving” French culture by working under the German occupation? Were they betraying France if they performed before German soldiers or made movies with Nazi approval? Was it the intellectual’s duty to take up arms against the occupier? Then, after Paris was liberated, [...]
Even when you’ve got your day-to-day bearings in Paris and feeling finally like your head is staying above water, there’s still plenty to learn. Whether it’s knowing the significance of the street names in your quartier, keeping all those King Louis straight, or understanding better why French society operates the way it does, reading a bit of history [...]
This fashion show took place Friday in the Jean-Jacques Henner museum in the 17th arrondissement. It was organized to launch the book by Thierry Coudert, Café Society: Socialites, Patrons, and Artists 1920-1960. The term refers to a period between the 1920′s and the mid 50′s during which aristocrats and heirs of all backgrounds would spend their [...]
For those of you who want an insider’s perspective on Parisians as a species of their own (because they are) that will have you nodding your head and laughing page by page– from their virtues to their flaws, their interests to their world-renowned style – you don’t have to look much further than Caroline Rochet, [...]
Like most Parisians, I have a love affair with the metro. It’s not love/hate, as the relationship is for some. I just love it. I love the humming sound of the closing-doors warning, the corny Wall Street English ads and crappy poems posted on the walls of the cars—I even love its smell. It makes [...]
It’s here! Shakespeare and Company’s newly relaunched literary magazine, dubbed by founder George Whitman “The Poor Man’s Paris Review,” has just arrived at the shop. I picked up my copy last night and it is gorgeous– chic and sexy and all the things you’d want a newly-relaunched literary magazine to be. They’re on sale at the [...]
