France Elevates Poet Aimé Césaire to Status of “Great Man” at Pantheon
April 6, 2011 – Little noticed and scantily attended on a warm and sunny spring day, France showed its gratitude to one of its...
Sex and the Luxury Hotel
When traveling alone, the hot hotel employee fantasy is nothing for to be ashamed of. Still, most travelers manage to control the urge to sequester a chambermaid or baggage boy for hotel sex.
Van Dyck portraits at the Jacquemart-André
I’ve always confused Van Dyck with Titian and Velasquez and El Greco. I'm a bit clearer about Van Dyck after visiting the exhibition at...
Sometimes, when nature calls…
Sometimes, when the weather’s nice and I feel nature calling, I’ll take the RER out of the city, not too far, a half-hour ride west from the center of Paris. Actually, it isn't nature calling but a friend of mine who lives out there.
You know you live in Paris when a striker …
... texts you at 10pm
Him: Good news, I’m on strike tomorrow.
You: Good news for whom?
Him: Us. I can come by in the afternoon.
You: But I’m not on strike.
Travel and Travel Writing Beyond the Clichés, the Lecture
Award-winning travel writer and editor Gary Lee Kraut lecture on the subject of “Travel and Travel Writing Beyond the Clichés: In Search of the Perfect Travel Moment in France” at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library on Feb. 8, 2013.
Montmartre By Day, Egypt By Night
We’ve seen a lot of images from Egypt of late as cameramen and photographers have sought the best angles to show crowds, revolt, politics,...
Love and Latkes
Melinda Mayor, "the Menschette of Montmartre,” has a gentile husband who says “oy” and who cooks better than she does and two children with whom she’d like to share her Jewish heritage, leading her on the search for the perfect potato latke in Paris.
A disturbing thing happened on my street
One day you’re walking down your street on your way home, taking in a view that you’ve seen a thousand, no, ten thousand times,...