Outdoor movie screenings take place in Parc de la Villette where moviegoers can enjoy the big screen while sitting under the stars. From tomorrow through August 21, movies run everyday except Mondays, beginning at nightfall.  Celebrating its 21st year with the theme “The Street,” popular movies include Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Woody Allen’s Manhattan, Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine, Robert [...]

In a stroke of clever marketing, the Rock en Seine music festival has transformed the Duroc metro station on the #10 line to the Durock station. Vibrant posters with names of the musical groups from this year’s festival including Herman Dune, Arctic Monkeys, My Chemical Romance, The Wombats, Coco Rosie, The Kills, Etienne De Crécy, [...]

Kings of Pastry is a riveting, moving, and sometimes heartbreaking documentary about the competition for one of most honored prizes in France, The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France. Awarded every four years,The Meilleurs Ouvriers de France is a prize awarded to the top pastry chefs and was created over fifty years ago to affirm the importance [...]

Here are some of the musical and not so musical highlights of my Fête de la Musique education: 1. Parisians signing in English. From Bono to Lady Gaga, accents and warbly voices never get old. 2. Little kids dancing. I think I watched a future Chris Farley tap dancer do his thing. 3. Spontaneous parade [...]

Want to play Amélie Poulain? Now you can do it with real style. This summer’s most surprising fetish object is the photo booth—but it’s undergone what Parisians like to call a “re-looking.” There is no need to fear harsh light or dingy curtains in these photos. Photomaton, the largest supplier of booths in France, asked designer [...]

Take this quiz to discover just how deeply you love the country and its people. You wear: a) an “I love Paris” T-shirt b) a sweater tied around your neck c) a permanent scowl You eat: a) Nutella crepes b) kidneys and escargots c) n’importe quoi, provided it’s covered in a butter and washed down with [...]

I’m psyched about “Summer of Girls,” the TV channel Arte’s line-up for Tuesdays this coming season. It’s a barrage of female iconography past and present, from Anne Parillaud as a butt-kicker in Nikita (1990) to Meryl Streep as a country crooner in A Prairie Home Companion (2006). No entertainment powerhouse goes unturned, from Janis Joplin [...]

Quick reminder! The Paris Blog is sponsoring a FREE concert this Thursday by Franco-American singer-songwriter Charlie Sputnik. Click here for Sputnik’s SoundCloud page, and here for the new music video by his group Zoowax. (If the guy can sound this good when tipsy in the back of a taxi, you know the show’s going to [...]

Making its way around the Internet right now is a primer on France, perhaps useful for people planning a first-time visit: THE NATION France is a medium-sized country situated in the continent of Europe. It is an important member of the world community, though not nearly as important as it thinks. It is bordered by [...]

Angeleno by way of Hong Kong and Tokyo–but originally from Caen, Normandy–Charlie Sputnik touches down in Paris Thursday June 2 at the Pop In. It’s a rare occasion to see the multi-hyphenate who produces, DJs, and best of all performs original music. Click here for his SoundCloud page, which has free tracks, both solo and [...]