Let’s face it, the French know how to throw a party with class. While modern carnivals often conjure images of bright neon lights, greasy friend…
Patti Smith is a modern rock legend. However like many musicians, Smith’s creativity doesn’t begin and end with the strumming of a guitar–it travels to…
France has a long history of accepting immigrants from all corners of the earth. Today, the country is full of thriving immigrant communities playing a…
The Paris Cinema Festival is not held in Cannes; a good reception here does not equal an Oscar nomination and the beach is far, far…
As any Parisian will tell you, the start of summer is not marked by the solstice or a spell of hot weather, rather the season…
Every July, the sports world focuses its eyes on France to witness the longest, toughest, most renowned bicycle race in the world, the Tour de…
Paris is a jazz-lovers city, perhaps more so than any other. Turn on the radio and you’ll be sure to hear a quartet or two,…
Paris is all about museums. The Louvre, Musee d’Orsay, Musee Rodin, Centre Pompidou, the list goes on and on. It seems as if every Paris…
As discussed in an earlier post, the life and death of Marie Antoinette is something that captures the imagination. The story of the frivolous queen…
For the 35th year in a row the FIAC International Art Fair will take over two of Paris’ most grand exhibit spaces, the Grand Palais…
