The best of what’s left of the French Crown Jewels – most of which were sold off by the Third Republic in the late 19th century to mark the end of empire – can be seen in the Louvre, but … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris PERFORMING AT THE PARISPHILHARMONIC IN FIVE EASY LESSONS If I can do it, anyone can. Paris’s new Philharmonic, in an effort to bring the joy of making music to those who have missed the … Read More
Poetic Pottery One of my favorite Parisian ceramists, Emmanuelle Wittmann, is holding an exhibition called “Terres Hivernales” in her studio (13, rue des Récollets, 75010 Paris; tel.: 06 11 30 84 75) through Dec. 22. Her simple, poetic yet earthy … Read More
Scents on Show Fragonard, the Grasse-based perfumer, has opened its third Musée du Parfum (3-5 square de l’Opéra Louis Jouvet, 75009) in Paris, near the Opéra Garnier. Even though these museums are attached to a commercial enterprise (each has its … Read More
Ever wonder what a dancer’s life is like? Claire Patronik, who had studied dance in Paris beginning as a child in hopes of becoming a ballerina but finally gave it up, did. To find out, she looked up some of … Read More
Oysters will never again be sold three for a penny as they were in 19th-century London, but now they can be had in Paris for one euro each, thanks to a new service called Arnaud et Hector, which brings its … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris VENETIAN BALL GOES UNDERGROUND Party organizers We Are the Oracle have come up with an extraordinary idea for a Venetian ball to be held in an underground canal in Paris on January 22, 23, … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris RIGHT BANK: TRAFFIC BEGONE! It’s a step in the right direction. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to ban motor-vehicle traffic from a stretch of the Right Bank as of August 2016 and turn it … Read More
Mon Voisine Cuisine, the “kitchen Uber,” is a new Web-based service with an original idea: order home-cooked food from menus offered by one of your neighbors on the site, pay online and pop over to the cook’s place to pick … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris SPIRITUAL & PHYSICAL SUSTENANCE Paris has plenty of yoga centers, but few in the 20th arrondissement, and even fewer with their own organic vegetarian cooking school and regular meditation sessions in a peaceful studio … Read More
