A woman spritzed a cool mist of water over crowds waiting for the Tour de France to pass through Paris last weekend. Check out the terrific photos by David Holmes at Paris Parfait.

As Paris welcomes the Japan Expo, we’re celebrating all things Japanese in the capital, from food to fashion. The Japan Expo is an international festival of traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, from music, dance, art and crafts to manga, anime and video games. The Young Designers Village showcases the latest in fashion inspired by the Far [...]

From August 6th until September 2nd 2010, two rooms at the hotel will be entirely re-decorated with Barbie furniture and accessories. The “Family Package” includes one Barbie room and one deluxe room for the parents (adjoining rooms) from 1,600 € or one Barbie room and one deluxe suite from 2,500 €. The Barbie room is [...]

Hysterical! Click here for the slideshow of how the Chinese, Japenese, English and Germans see France. Above is how cultivated Americans see the country, and below, the Fox News watchers. Thanks to Just Another American in Paris for finding this. (For non-French speakers, the descriptions below are Stinky Cheese, Strikers, Communists, Dirty People, Rednecks, Old [...]

As President  Sarkozy struggles to outlaw the head-to-toe covering called the burqa for its role in the oppression of  women, the case of the Muslim driver fined 22 euros has taken a new and interesting turn.
French Minister of the Interior Brice Hortefeux has jumped into the fray, saying that the husband of the woman fined for driving [...]

Whether you’re celebrating New Year’s Eve on the Champs Elysees in Paris, or with a small group of friends chez toi, if you’ve planned it right, chances are you’re going to wake up with one heck of a gueule de bois (hangover) come Friday morning. What better way to Frenchify your New Year than with a Bloody Mary? Bet [...]

Apparently Jim Morrison isn’t the only American-bred cultural icon buried in Pere Lachaise. A friend emailed me this photo he took in the cemetery yesterday with the caption, “Pauvre Pepe!”

An enormous and ancient bus station near the Place de la Nation is due to be renovated shortly, but in the meantime the RATP public transport company have decided to open the doors to the public for a giant (garage sale) for one weekend only. Alongside the traditional moth eaten furniture and cracked crockery, you will find [...]

This flyer was stuck on the windshield of every car on the block over the weekend and it’s got me wondering what exactly makes this car wash American? They only take gas guzzlers? Your car gets washed by a couple of cheerleaders? The customer is always right? Without a car, I don’t really know what [...]

Le Labo Shop is a specialized concept store for the scientifically inclined, but this laboratory is more akin to Jonathan Adler than Dr. Frankenstein. The inventions and experiments of French-American scientist David Edwards (who also happens to be Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard), bring science to street-level. The shop’s chicly plexiglassed design belies a warm [...]