Comments on: Does Paris Nightlife Suck?

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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:00:07 +0000

[...] of rebuttal to the flurry of articles that had recently appeared in the French and American press declaring that Paris was dead after dark. So I spent the first six weeks of 2010 getting reacquainted with some of my favorite old haunts [...]

By: radiogirl

radiogirl — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:14:22 +0000

I do a podcast with Simon Badinter (whose parents are Robert and Élisabeth Badinter), and we talked about this article and mentioned your blog in one of our episodes. You can listen to our conversation here. He talks about his experiences at clubs in Paris and mentions some places and people you might know about.

By: patrick lehman

patrick lehman — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:59:12 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. Paris should happily perfect what it already is. Nightlife (or the lack thereof) is an organic outgrowth of the culture itself. If there were vast unserved groups who wanted a raucous den of depravity, they would have found a place for it.

Inversely, when New York cleaned up Times Square, they seemed to think all those crack whores and dealers would go back to college or something. THEY DIDN”T. As long as there’s a need for a blowjob, and a hit of crack, it will be served. Parisians seem to like it as it is.

By: Monique Y. Wells

Monique Y. Wells — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:03:16 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree that “Paris is, for many, the zenith of civility and sophistication”—as well as with Martin’s sentiment above. I guess that some people can’t see the proverbial forest…

By: Martin Blink

Martin Blink — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:12:16 +0000

Nicely put. A generation lost to raves and texting does not deserve our pity.