Heidi Ellison
Paris Update Events 02.01.2023
January 7 French movies with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents Couleurs de L’Incendie, directed by Clovis Cornillac. Club de l’Étoile, Paris December 2-January 2 More illuminations A number of light installations by the famous Groupe F and others will light … Read More
Paris Update Events 26.12.2022
December 29 French movies with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents Mascarade, directed by Nicolas Bedos. Luminor Hotel de Ville, Paris December 31 New Year’s Eve merrymaking French music is set to get the crowds dancing on the Champs-Élysées on New Year’s … Read More
Paris Update Events 19.12.2022
December 22 French movies with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents Les Engagés, directed by Emilie Frèche. Luminor Hotel de Ville, Paris Through December 24 African music and film The Africolor cultural festival puts African music in the spotlight. Various venues, Paris … Read More
Musicanimale
The Symphony of Life
Strange sounds fill the exhibition space at the Musée de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris: the roar of a rutting stag, the trill of a song thrush, the clacking of stag jawbones being used as percussion instruments – and that’s just … Read More
Perception Restaurant
No Salt and Pepper
I have always wondered how the best chefs come up with new recipes. Obviously, their prior experience and inspiration from other chefs play major roles – let’s not even mention those who just follow the trends or outright copy the … Read More
Paris Update Events 14.12.2022
December 15 The streets of Aix Léo Marchutz’s minimalist lithographs of urban scenes, especially the streets of Aix-en-Provence, will be the subject of a conference at the BibliothèqueNationale de France, which owns a collection of the artist’s works. Bibliothèque Nationale … Read More
Maezaly Restaurant
Mom and Pop Deliver the Gourmet Goods
If you live in Paris, with its multitude of great restaurants, why would you go to the suburb of Vincennes for dinner? Because that’s where Maezaly is located. Nicolas and Amandine, the son and daughter-in-law of my friend Mary, have … Read More
A Flâneur’s Guide: Paris, the Right Bank
A Wandering Raconteur's Paris
A Flâneur’s Guide: Paris, the Right Bank, by “richardb,” is the follow-up to the author’s similarly titled guide to the Left Bank. It crosses the Seine to offer another witty, offbeat, entertaining and frequently off-the-beaten-track view of Paris. Once again … Read More
Paris Update Events 07.12.2022
December 9 French movies with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents Pétaouchnok, directed by Edouard Deluc. Club de l’Étoile, Paris December 10 Open-air art Ateliers du Père Lachaise Associés presents Galerie Ouverte: artists from Paris’s 2oth arrondissement will exhibit their work on … Read More
From Garamont to Garamond(s): A Typographic Adventure
Calling All Type Nerds
An exhibition called “From Garamont to Garamond(s): A Typographic Adventure” may inspire deep yawns in most people, but I was excited to discover that there was such a show at Paris’s beautiful Bibliothèque Mazarine. One of my “déformations professionelles,” as … Read More