While governments around the world are trying their best to exclude immigrants and even eject them from their borders once they have arrived, some individuals are taking the opposite tack and going out of their way to help them integrate … Read More
A group of independent Left Bank well-being professionals have banded together to create a kind of personalized mini-spa, the Studio des Grands Augustins, where physiotherapy or Pilates classes can be followed by a two-hour massage, for example, or a “barre … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris WHAT TO DO WHEN TERRORISTS ATTACK Paris firemen of yore in a gym.After the terrorist attacks last November 13, which some of my friends witnessed up close, I wondered how one should react in … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris PARIS FIREMEN: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL For those of you who can’t face the thought of going to a gym, try a workout with the firemen (and women) of Paris. Training sessions of one … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris VENETIAN BALL GOES UNDERGROUND Party organizers We Are the Oracle have come up with an extraordinary idea for a Venetian ball to be held in an underground canal in Paris on January 22, 23, … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris RIGHT BANK: TRAFFIC BEGONE! It’s a step in the right direction. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to ban motor-vehicle traffic from a stretch of the Right Bank as of August 2016 and turn it … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris SPIRITUAL & PHYSICAL SUSTENANCE Paris has plenty of yoga centers, but few in the 20th arrondissement, and even fewer with their own organic vegetarian cooking school and regular meditation sessions in a peaceful studio … Read More
TAKE A STRANGE MAN HOME TONIGHT If you are walking down the street anywhere in the world and are approached by a slight, handsome man wearing a red shirt and a strange contraption fitted with three cameras pointing at you, … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris SILENT MOVIES La Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, keeper of the archives of Pathé, the film production company founded in 1896, has opened a new cinema in the 13th arrondissement showing only silent films, accompanied by … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris VALENTINE SPLURGE A suite at the Royal Monceau-Raffles. The recently renovated Royal Monceau-Raffles Hotel (37, avenue Hoche 75008 Paris; 01 42 99 88 77) has not just one, but two Michelin-starred restaurants. For Valentine’s … Read More
