SAVE COLETTE’S HOME A number of French celebrities, including actors Mathieu Amalric and Carole Bouquet, and singer Juliette, will participate in a benefit performance of readings, film excerpts and music at the Théâtre du Châtelet (tel.: 01 40 28 28 … Read More
Paris Celebrates the Art of Drawing “A Palace and a Row of Houses behind a Town Wall” (c. 1560/70?), by Giovanni Antonio Dosio (?). © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main The Fondation Custodia, itself the keeper of a treasure trove … Read More
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Django MeetsNew Orleans in Paris Evan Christopher, New Orleans-based leader of Django à la Créole. Evan Christopher, a New Orleans-based clarinetist and band leader, is bringing his Django à la Créole project to Paris’s Duc des Lombards club, Favorite
Suburban Jazz Hot Marc Ribot, one of the featured artists at the 2005 Banlieues Bleues festival. The French have a longstanding love affair with jazz, and Paris still has a number of fine jazz clubs featuring big international names and … Read More
Foie gras terrine and eel teriyaki with sansho spices, done up to look like an exquisite cake. Photo © Darren Palmer When you enter this small restaurant, the first indication that it’s Japanese comes from the unmistakable accent of the … Read More
PARIS COUTURE WEEK Designer Jean Paul Gaultier withArielle Dombasle after presenting his haute couture collection in Paris. Click here for more couture photos. Photo: Elizabeth Pantaleo Favorite
Aux Lyonnais has a traditional bistro ambiance. The big news on the food front today (there are more important things happening in the world) is that El Bulli, five times rated the world’s best restaurant, will be closed in 2012 … Read More
Piggyback ride on Paris’s Rue Bonaparte during the Great Flood of 1910. © World’s Graphic Press / Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris / Roger-Viollet Why does the Great Flood of 1910 loom so large in the imagination of … Read More
Everything on the heaping seafood platter is fresh from the brine. If you have a craving for fresh seafood, L’Ecailler du Bistrot is a sure bet. Everything they serve comes straight from the French coast. Gwenaelle Cadoret, who runs the … Read More
