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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go dancing, listen to some music and have a glass or two. In early 20th century Harlem, New York, these cards would have been your ticket to a good time. They advertise what was known as “Harlem rent parties”, a social phenomenon [...]
I‘m not the kind of person you’re going to catch waiting in a museum queue that goes round the block to get my fix of history and culture. So here’s Nessy’s pick of museums off the beaten path in Paris… 1. Musée des Arts Forains (The Fairground Art Museum) Images by Julie Lefort Little-known even [...]
Blind dates are bad enough but when your own parents take to the streets and advertise your eternal loneliness on public noticeboards, that’s when things probably start to get really bleak. In a sort of online dating nightmare come to life, every weekend in Shanghai at the north end of People’s Park, up to a [...]
You might think this sounds a little odd but sheep pageantry is in fact not all that different to the dog and cat shows we put on in the western world. In Senegal, sheep and rams are like pets. In 8 households out of 10 in Senegal, there are live-in sheep and rams because it’s [...]
Last year Vahram Muratyan came out with his wonderful book of graphic illustrations comparing Paris and New York side by side. I have a copy lying around somewhere in my mess. But to my delight, I’ve just come across an animated video version of his work. It’s a little fast and should be about half [...]
This weekend I spent Friday night with le boyfriend doing what any normal girl likes to do: scoping out derelict buildings. We were having a drink on the Seine in the 13th arrondissement when he remembered there was an enormous old building in the neighborhood infamously occupied by squatters. Off we went. And there it [...]
This weekend the French are celebrating Bastille day. It’s a really big deal, sort of like American Independence day and we celebrate being Frenchies and all that patriotic stuff. So I thought being half French myself, I’d do a little patriotic post on why it’s awesome to be French… 1. We were infamously led into [...]
La Danse Apache, a highly dramatic dance, was the ‘tango’ of Parisian street culture and was essentially made to look like a physical attack. The dance is said to re-enact a violent “discussion” between a pimp and a prostitute. Immortalized and sensationalized later by Hollywood and Broadway as shown in this film noir made in 1935, it includes [...]
Don’t worry if the plane crashes, it has 9 lives! Okay, bad joke. Here is a closer look at the Hello Kitty aircrafts you didn’t ask for. In celebration of Taipei’s EVA Airline’s 20th anniversary, the company has teamed up with Hello Kitty to add not one, not two but three HelloKitty Airbuses to its fleet [...]
The French have always been doing it but in the 1970s it became especially trendy to throw a ‘cheese & wine’ party… And then, like most things that were cool during the seventies, it became very uncool and pretty cheesy (pun semi-intended), just like the smiles on these people’s faces in the retro food advertisement [...]
Do you know where the oldest classified wine region is in Europe? (Don’t worry, I
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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These are perilous times for loyal fans of Paris burger joints such as the holy church of Blend,
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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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It all started when I saw a beetroot salad Caprese and thought how much it reminded me of my
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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What is more enchanting than an artist’s studio? When these painters, sculptors and creators
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I would imagine it’s pretty frustrating for food photographers these days with everyone
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The boulangerie, boucherie, the epicerie, the caviste, the chocolatier, la coiffure; everyday
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