This Saturday (October7) is the 5th annual Nuit Blanche, an all-night cultural festival created by Mayor Delanoë in 2002, and now copied (like Paris Plage) in cities throughout Europe. Like most...
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Note: Also see Rock-en-Seine 2007 here and Rock-en-Seine 2008 here and here. Rock-en-Seine 2006 was pretty damned cool. Aside from the freak weather (ie sunny), the gorgeous setting at the St-Cloud...
Tonight France plays Italy for the Football (aka Soccer) World Cup. To say the town has "Les Bleues" Fever would be an understatement. And there are so many Italians in Paris that no matter...
In case you didn’t see the note in the Calendar, this week is La Semaine Italienne, celebrating 50 years of "sisterhood" between the cities of Paris and Rome. There’s free...
Belleville has more artists than any other district of Paris, and every May they open their ateliers to the public. Many of them are in squatted or temporary buildings, often surrounded by greenery...
Now the Halloween bug has taken France by storm, and nowhere is free from ghoulish decorations and good ol' spooky entertainment. So with so many places competing for your attention, where should you...
Is Paris still romantic? I have to admit I’m a bit biased—having met and married Mr. Hall here—but I’ve seen the signs, and it seems Cupid still haunts the quais and rues of this love-crazed town.
Wednesday, December 1st was the twelfth annual World AIDS Awareness Day, just in case you missed all of the red ribbons. Even here in Paris, we are not free from HIV. While gay men remain the largest...
Oh, what a perfect day…a sunny and warmish October 30th, the leaves are finally taking their dive, the skies are clear, and Mr. Hall and I have actually managed to get out of bed this Saturday before...
The French really, really, want to eat the pumpkin. Because they’re new at this Halloween thing, and have their own cult of culinary craft, I’ll forgive them. Besides, they’ve come a long way since I...