On a Train from Paris to Rome
One of these days we'll get around to making a real video for "On a Train from Paris to Rome" -- music by Jordan Zell, lyrics by Gary Lee Kraut -- but in the meantime you can watch and listen to a practice performance of the song by Jordan Zell and Yuri Stolov at the Putin Bar in Jerusalem in November 2009.
Junior Year Abroad: English as a Second Language
During junior year abroad, Kim Sotman abandons Paris for London for the weekend to reaccustom her ear to English, though it's far cry from the English she knows.
Introducing Va-nu-pieds, the barefoot photographer
France Revisited is proud to introduce readers to Va-nu-pieds, a French photographer whose work will be appearing periodically on this site.
Destination Brittany, final part (5): The return home
Destination Brittany, travels with Henri, part 5: In which Henri and I kiss our host good-bye, visit Dinan and speed back to Paris.
Leslie Caron kicks off the release of her memoir “Thank Heaven”
To those with memories of Hollywood’s Golden Age, watching Leslie Caron in An American in Paris (1951) opposite Gene Kelly was enough to turn...
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.
Destination Brittany, part 4 of 5: tu, vous, and ma promenade
Destination Brittany, travels with Henri, part 4 of 5: Just before the party in Dinard on Saturday evening another guest arrived at the neighbor’s house where Henri and I were staying. He was a young actor from Paris and he, too, knocked at the door empty-handed except for his overnight bag.
Home is where the vine is
Lindsey Wallace, an American student on junior year abroad, reflects on the meaning of home.
Alternative viewing: France in HDR photography
Joe Wilkins tries out techniques in HDR photography in Paris, at Chambord and at Vincennes.