Mon Voisine Cuisine, the “kitchen Uber,” is a new Web-based service with an original idea: order home-cooked food from menus offered by one of your neighbors on the site, pay online and pop over to the cook’s place to pick … Read More
The People’s Cinema This could only happen in a suburb of Paris with a Communist mayor (former mayor Jean-Pierre Brard): In need of more cinema screens for local residents, the city of Montreuil effectively shut out two large film distributors … 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
Luxury Leathers Perrin, a French leather-goods company that has been producing luxury gloves and handbags since 1893, has just opened a Paris flagship store in the high-fashion, high-octane Golden Triangle, at 3 rue d’Alger, a stone’s throw from the iconic … 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 Art Notes HOMAGE TO ANOTHER MCCARTNEY “Martha My Dear, London, 1968.” © 1968 Paul McCartney/Photographer: Linda McCartney Linda McCartney may be best known for forming the post-Beatles band Wings with her husband, Paul McCartney, but before she hitched … 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
The culture budget is always one of the first to be cut in troubled economic times. To demonstrate the error of this way of thinking, French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti, who gave her annual New Year’s address to the press … Read More
Fans of Daniel Rose, the supremely likable American chef/owner of the Paris restaurant Spring, will be happy to hear that he has published his first cookbook, available in French and English editions, illustrated with his own charmingly naïve and witty … Read More
