Heidi Ellison
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
Les Marches Restaurant
Where Have All the Truckers Gone?
Continuing in the genre of workers’ restaurants – see our recent review of Bouillon Chartier Gare de l’Est – we ate the other night at a “routier” (truck stop) called Les Marches. Popular with both Parisians and tourists, this restaurant … Read More
Panorama: The Other Side
Mysterious Worlds Revealed
Every year, Le Fresnoy–Studio National des Arts Contemporains, an art school and production center for multimedia and digital arts in Tourcoing (near Lille), invites an outside curator to put together a new edition of the exhibition “Panorama,” this year titled … Read More
Paris Update Events 30.11.2022
December 2 French movies with English subtitles Lost in Frenchlation presents Trois Nuits par Semaine, directed by Florent Gouëlou. L’Entrepot, Paris December 3 Rosa & Bill Natacha Henry will discuss her historical novel The French Painter and the American Showman: The … Read More
Christian Marclay
Bang! Visible Sound
Like many people, I first discovered Christian Marclay through his spellbinding 24-hour video installation “The Clock” (2010), consisting of film clips showing the actual time, which was being shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. After having seen a section … Read More