July 13, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | What's New Potpourri
GREENING NOTRE DAME The new landscape design, by Bas Smets, for the environs of Notre Dame calls for more greenery, a cooling system for the parvis and an underground archaeological museum in a former parking lot. (The Guardian) THE SPIRIT … Read More
July 13, 2022 | By Emma Hussain | Week events
Through July 31 Summer arts festival Dance, music, theater and many other art forms come together for the Festival Paris l’Été 2020. Various locations, Paris July 22-23 & August 26-27 Outdoor films Ciné Tarmac returns with four nights of film screenings … Read More
July 6, 2022 | By Emma Hussain | Week events
July 9-August 21 Paris beaches For the summer months, the banks of the river and canals are transformed into miniature beaches for Paris Plages. Various locations, Paris Through July 13 Eclectic music festival Days Off presents acts ranging from Jarvis … Read More
July 6, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions
“There was no stopping her from painting,” says Amanda Gabori, daughter of painting powerhouse Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (Sally Gabori for short), currently the subject of a solo exhibition at Paris’s Fondation Cartier. Normally, there would be nothing surprising about an … Read More
July 6, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Restaurants
Wadja is a feel-good bistro par excellence. I have been going to this small restaurant – whose unusual name can apparently be traced back to the misspelled name of a Polish couple who once owned it – on and off … Read More
July 6, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Film
What’s the point of remaking an old film? Not much that I can see in such cases as Gus Van Sant’s word-for-word and shot-for-shot 1998 copy of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. That is not a problem, however, in the stylish new … Read More