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March 4, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

STREET PARTY The area around the Canal Saint Martin, known for its community spirit, has been blossoming with new boutiques, restaurants and cafés for the past 10 years. On Friday, Sept. 12, the shopkeepers on the Rue de la Grange … Read More

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March 4, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

VIVE LE MINITEL! Believe it or not, the clunky Minitel, the forerunner of the Internet introduced by France Telecom 26 years ago, lives on. A million of the networked boxes, now used mainly as telephone directories, are still in use, … Read More

Expression

March 4, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

“Tu es tout en foufelle aujourd’hui!” That’s Ch’ti (or Picard, a language spoken in Northern France) for “You look great today!” To hear it pronounced, click on the video below starring two former Parisians, photographer Maxime Dufour and Pascal Biencourt, … Read More

SUNDAY SONGS

March 4, 2009 | By Paris Update | What's New Art & Culture

SUNDAY SONGS Alexandre (Castagnetti) and Clément (Marchand), two scruffy, good-natured thirty-something French musicians, have won the hearts of the French with their Chansons du Dimanche, bouncy, humorous songs composed and recorded on Saturday – often while the pair sits cross-legged … Read More

Donne-moi la Main

March 3, 2009 | By Paris Update | Film

Donne-moi la Main, the first feature-length movie by Pascal-Alex Vincent, stars a pair of identical twin brothers, Alexandre and Victor Carril, who live in Paris’s Marais. On the evening I saw it, at the MK2 Beaubourg cinema, just on the … Read More

C’est Magnifique !

March 2, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

Without wishing to minimize the very real plight of those immigrants to France who are denied papers and (all too often) living quarters, I did note a wonderful side to the French approach recently while passing a group of homeless … Read More

C’est Magnifique !

March 2, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

Without wishing to minimize the very real plight of those immigrants to France who are denied papers and (all too often) living quarters, I did note a wonderful side to the French approach recently while passing a group of homeless … Read More

Jean Marais: L’Eternel Retour

February 24, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

Jean Marais (1913-1998) is justly famous for his cinematic career and for his creative and personal partnership with Jean Cocteau (the two remained together from 1937 until Cocteau’s death in 1963). Far less is known, however, about his… Favorite

MBC

February 24, 2009 | By Paris Update | Archive

Everybody starts their articles these days with a nod to the crisis, so here’s mine. One of the first victims of real-economy meltdown in Britain was Woolworths (affectionately known to Brits as “Woollies”). All 807 stores in … Favorite