Parisians Show Knee: Paris Fashion Police No Longer Forbid Men’s Shorts
PARIS FASHION FLASH: It’s been a long time coming but the Paris fashion police have finally received the circular concerning shorts, now making it acceptable for local men to show their knees on the street.
Dear Notre-Dame: A Letter for Pentecost Time
Dear Notre-Dame. On the occasion of Pentecost, rest assured that I am not mocking you—certainly not in the way that someone has recently ridiculed poor Corneille up on the hill near the scant relics of your beloved St. Geneviève.
The Cranky Editor: Life Beyond the Facebook Quarter of Paris
Preparing France Revisited’s Cranky Issue has made me one happy editor.
My call for cantankerous texts from residents and travelers willing to demonstrate that all...
The Cranky Pedestrian: The Barefoot Photographer Rants Against Bicycle Cadavers
A call for contributors to turn a cranky eye on their surroundings brought forth a photographic rant from Va-nu-pieds, France Revisited’s fetish photographer, who’s fed up with the sight of bicycle cadavers on the sidewalks of Paris.
The Cranky Parent: Maman, Bébé and Unsolicited Advice
Children in Paris: Bringing up bébé has its dark side in the City of Light when maman can’t go wheeling through the supermarket without a stranger telling her that she hasn’t dressed her precious one properly for the yogurt aisle, as Melinda Mayor, aka Meshugeneh Mama, recounts with vitriol and humor.
The Cranky Host: A Shuffle Through Montmartre
The guidebooks describe the pleasures of sightseeing in Paris, typically under sunny skies, but ignore the cold, gray, back-aching shuffle through the crowds of the kind that longtime resident Ellen Labelle experienced while visiting Montmartre with friends.
The Cranky Foreign Resident: I Love the French, But Sometimes…
Three years ago Polish contributor Justyna Gawąd, her French husband and their European son moved to the Anjou region of France from Warsaw. Justyna...
Sinfonietta Paris Chamber Orchestra & The Musical Vignette Contest Winner
Sinfonietta Paris Chamber Orchestra is an artistic organization and orchestra dedicated to showcasing and developing a new generation of orchestral musicians and soloists under the direction of Michael Boone.
Vignette: Paris Weather Report
There is no such thing as global warming. It’s a hoax, an invention of socialists looking for an excuse to have government regulate everything and of their scientist lackeys looking for subsidies for their spirit-hating research.