PROMOTING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS The Center for the Study of International Communications is seeking donations to the Art Buchwald Scholarship Fund, which encourages freedom of the press throughout the world by enabling students from developing countries to study journalism … Read More
SOLDES! Time to take your credit card out for some post-holiday exercise: the biannual government-mandated five-week retail sales period begins in Paris today and lasts through Feb. 9. Discounts will deepen as time goes on, but you may have trouble … Read More
ON THE ROAD IN A TIME WARP If you happen to spot a rare Citroën DS (a.k.a “la déesse,” or “goddess”) floating regally down a Paris street on Sunday morning, followed by what looks like a glorified four-wheeled motorcycle (a … Read More
SAVE THE MUSEE DE MONTMARTRE The Musée de Montmartre (12, rue Cortot, 75018 Paris; tel.: 01 49 25 89 37), located in a house once inhabited by artist Suzanne Valladon and her son Maurice Utrillo (and visited by many other … Read More
Daniel Auteuil proved his acting skills once again in the film Je l’Aimais. On the movie front, 2009 has been a good year. Martin Provost’s biopic Séraphine won many of the French Oscars (the Césars), including best film and … … Read More
TEMPLE OF DEAD REOPENS Paris’s Catacombs, badly damaged by vandals in September, finally reopened last weekend, just in time for a Christmas visit to this underground ossuary, filled with carefully piled skulls and bones gathered from overflowing Parisian cemeteries since … Read More
PALACE OF FUN The 2005 version of Jours de Fêtes at the Grand Palais. Photo © Didier Plowy /Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication Paris’s Grand Palais will be turned into a palace of fun for the Jours … Read More
CLICHED KISSES FROM PARIS You’ll want to shout “get a hotel” while watching the new video “Kisses from Paris,” directed by Yvan Attal (the actor/director who is married to Charlotte Gainsbourg). Produced by the Ile de France’s regional tourism board, … Read More
WHITE NIGHT This year’s Nuit Blanche (Oct. 3), an all-night contemporary art experience held in various locations around Paris, promises to resolve some of the problems and annoyances of previous ones. Installations will be placed in parks, allowing space for … Read More
MEDIA MANIPULATION? Former French Prime Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s new novel, La Princesse et le Président (Fallois-XO), about the love affair between a former French prime minister and a princess strongly resembling Lady Di, as the French still call her, … Read More
