Paris Update What’s New in Paris COWORKING CAFE Customers hard at work at L’AntiCafé. Following Craft, a handsome café designed as a place for freelancers to work, a new Wi-Fi-equipped office-haven-away-from-home with a different concept has opened: L’AntiCafé (79, rue … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris Parachutists arriving during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Photo: Daniel Camus/RMN-Grand Palais/Musée de l’Armée. The Musée de l’Armée in Paris is holding a fascinating exhibition, “Indochine: Des Territoires et des Hommes, 1856-1956” (through … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris “Le Pierrot Lunaire,” by Gustave Vichy. Photo: Nathalie Prebende There is always something creepily fascinating about automatons, and visitors to the exhibition “Histoire d’Automates” at the Théâtre des Sablons (62-70, avenue du Roule 92200 … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris KITTY-CAT CAFE & CHIC ARCADE Customers can pet and eat at the same time at Le Café des Chats. Do you get bored sitting around in cafes? If so, two new spots in Paris … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris TOURING PARIS WITH AN IPHONE Rue Mallet-Stevens in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, from the app Guide Paris Archi. © L’Architecte 1927/BHVP/ADAGP 2008 The Pavillon de l’Arsenal has launched a free application for iPhone, Guide Paris … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris BACK IN WITH THE OLD What do tourists love most about Paris (aside from the Eiffel Tower)? Its charming old-fashioned bistros and shops. Unfortunately, these old-timey treasures are disappearing one by one. A new … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris NOSTALGIA RECYCLED The Habitat stores might still seem to be the height of modernity, but the chain, founded by designer Terence Conran in 1964, is already half a century old. Those who are nostalgic … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris FOR PARISIANS ONLY The City of Paris has launched a new app (for iPhone and Android) and Web site called DansMaRue to enable Paris residents to report problems in the street, such as graffiti, … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris WINE ON THE WATER Why go to the wine shop when the wine shop can come to you, at least if you live on a Parisian canal. The converted barge Caroline, a.k.a. the Cave … Read More
Paris Update What’s New in Paris ART DECO CINEMA REBORNOne of the sadder sights in Paris for many years was the Louxor “Palace of Cinema,” which began showing silent films in 1921, sitting abandoned at the crossroads of the Boulevard … Read More
