Tag: music and entertainment
How to Join the French Foreign Legion (in Music and Song)
The French Foreign Legion holds a unique place within France’s national and military heritage due to both the reality and the fantasy of the corps. The reality itself is always clouded in an air of mystery about these men, with their white kepis and their world full of accents.
The Mona Lisa of the Champs-Elysées (How Le Cat Killed Curiosity)
Paris seeks herd immunity against curiosity by installing 20 monumentally insipid bronzes of Philippe Geluck's Le Chat on the Champs-Elysees.
Interview: Sofia Falkovitch, France’s First Female Jewish Cantor
Watch the video interview in this article to understand the dual nature of Sofia Falkovitch and her work, at once alien and fully connected. Video interview filmed at the Copernic Synagogue in Paris.
Festivals in France, the 2017 Summer Selection
Hundreds of festivals, large and small, come to life each summer in France, bringing music, theater, dance and fireworks to village squares, historical monuments, town centers and their surroundings. To help with the planning and to whet your appetite for the summer festival season, Corinne LaBalme has selected for France Revisited some of the best and brightest events of the season.
Theater in Paris: Dom Juan, Les Misérables, Le Cid
Now that you’ve mastered exchanges with waiters, bar talk, conversation at dinner parties and viewing French movies without subtitles, are you ready to take the leap to French theater? Consider Corneille's Le Cid, Molière's Dom Juan and Hugo's Les Misérables at Vingtième Théâtre in Paris’s 20th arrondissement from January 14 to March 6, 2016.
Paris Takes Center Stage on International Jazz Day
Paris has been selected to serve as the 2015 Global Host City for the fourth annual International Jazz Day organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and celebrated around the world on April 30, with Herbie Hancock serving as Goodwill Ambassador.
Droles de Mecs: High-Energy Gymnastic Hip-Hop Humor
You don’t need to understand French to enjoy the hip-hop gymnastics of Droles de Mecs, a high-energy, feel-good acrobatic dance show playing in Paris...
Paris Basement Theater: Fills Monkey, Drummer Humor
Fills Monkey, a "humorythmic" drum show, is simple, wordless, entertaining basement theater. Article includes information about restaurants in the Montorgueil Quarter and about the Comedie Francaise exhibit at the Petit Palais.
City Hall Says Paris Nightlife Can’t Be Dead, We Just Launched It
Parisians of the partying kind have long lamented the decline of the city’s nightlife. Those over 45 date the good ole days to the 1980s, those over 30 manage to cite a couple of highlights of the 90s, and those in their 20s simply criticize Paris for not being New York or Madrid.