October 5, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Week events
Through October 8 Chanson française L’Estival features French-language singers. Various locations outside Paris October 8-9 Artisans on show Nearly 70 artisans – including jewelers, ceramists, dressmakers, designers, gilders, cabinetmakers, framers, engravers and bookbinders – open their doors to the public to demonstrate … Read More
October 5, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Exhibitions
I fell in love with the work of Alice Neel (1900-84) when I came across a show of her quirky portraits while gallery-hopping in London several years ago. After that, I never heard a peep about her until the Centre … Read More
October 5, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Restaurants
The aptly named Café Les Deux Gares is located smack between the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l’Est (within walking distance of each other) at the top of a handsome double staircase. This used to be an ordinary … Read More
October 5, 2022 | By Heidi Ellison | Film
The French actor Sophie Marceau, who is approaching the age of 57, has been an absolute star in France and elsewhere for some 42 years, ever since her first adolescent role in Claude Pinoteau’s La Boum (The Party) in 1980. … Read More