Toujours Maurice
Lyla Blake Ward, who previously wrote for France Revisited about her experiences in Paris in 1952, recalls the pleasure of seeing Maurice Chevalier perform twice then of meeting him in person in an indelible third encounter.
You know you live in Paris when… : The B52s
... you're on the metro platform after seeing your new therapist and find yourself in your own private Idaho trying to pick up the pieces as you wonder how your life would have been different had you...
Sarah’s Key, an interview with film director Gilles Paquet Brenner
Young French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner reflects on his latest film, Sarah’s Key, in an interview by Daniele Thomas Easton on the occasion of the...
Egypt and the Opera
Feb. 14, 2011. With the winds of change blowing across North Africa and the Middle East it’s only natural to notice a slight breeze...
Zorro, Le Musical
Paris, February 2010—I get a thrill whenever I walk into the Folies Bergères, past its Art Deco façade and into its kitsch lobby that...
Mano Solo has died. If you don’t know his work check it out.
Mano Solo, one of the most remarkable, independent voices of contemporary French music since the release of his first album in 1993, has died at the age of 46. He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
Hurricanes, economics and war
Just got back to Paris from Berlin where I was dumbfounded to find that BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, German radio, and the American papers...