Va-nu-pieds: Springtime in Paris (Printemps)
Va-nu-pieds encounters springtime in Paris during a barefoot walk on the city streets and recalls a line from Sofia Coppola’s “Lost In Translation."
Republicans, Democrats and the Politics of Vision in Paris
A Paris vignette by Gary Lee Kraut that examines the politics of vision (unless it's a vision of politics) in Paris, London and Berlin.
Fear and Loafing in Paris
A message from Sue arrived today through the website: “My husband Phil and I are considering visiting Paris this winter… I’m wondering if I’m...
French cuisine in Philadelphia
Explorations in French cuisine in the City of Brotherly Love. A round-up of French restaurants in Philadelphia.
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.
Paris Writers News Interviews Gary Lee Kraut
April 2011 – I’m normally the one asking the questions, but for an interview now appearing on the literary blog Paris Writers Notes, editor...
What Parisians Want, Exhibit 9
Paris, June 2012 -- Michelangelo it ain't, but this ad poster for taking the Eurostar to London for the Olympics, now showing in the Paris metro system, manages to make fun of the English, refer to great art and show genitalia. What more could a Parisian want?
Scraps of 2014, Inspiration for 2015
Anyone else would likely sweep them into the trash, but for me the scraps of paper scribbled with my handwriting that cover the horizontal...
Prizewinning project “anima” at the French Institute
Jean-François Spricigo, the 2008 winner of the Prix de Photographie by the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, says that he learned photography during night walks with his dog. If so then, anima, the exhibit of his work at the Institut de France, is as personal for him as it is haunting for the viewer.