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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you on a stroll through Montmartre? I love having you vicariously tag along with me in Paris and I’m beginning to feel like you might really have a thing for this city. So I have a hunch you [...]
Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to light the remarkable true history of how Muslims gave sanctuary to French Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris during Second World War. An untold “Oscar Schindler” story, the film is inspired by actual events and in this case, our ‘Schindler’ is Si [...]
After I finish telling you about this, I’m going to write a letter to someone; with a pen, and a piece of paper, and an envelope. Because, when was the last time you received a beautiful letter? This is the question being asked by Lettres d’un Inconnu (Letters from a Stranger), a most charming new [...]
Between the 19th and 20th century, wine barrels would travel via canal boat from the regions of Burgundy all the way to Paris which were then traded at the riverside cellars of Bercy, destined to grace the tables of thirsty Parisians. Today, there is one little houseboat, known as ‘La Cave Vagabonde‘, still making the [...]
You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical accident’, an urban enclave so densely populated by squatters that even the law lost its grip on the seven-acre plot crammed with 300 interconnected towers. It turns out we had one just like it right here in Paris. And unlike Kowloon, which was [...]
I pass the Pont Louis Philippe most days, whizzing by on a scooter along the banks of the Seine. At the foot of the last arch on the right bank, there is a door that has been mystifying me for a while now, because it appears that someone lives there… On the most recent occasion [...]
This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is the underground water reservoir tank of Mountsouris, a hidden treasure in the south of the Paris. Sitting undisturbed beneath the feet of unknowing Parisians, the original entrance is unfortunately closed to the public. The photograph above was taken by urban explorer photographer [...]
Young people in the neighborhood had never known a time when the doors of the old Louxor Movie Palace were ever open. Barricaded behind wooden boards, possibly the oldest surviving movie palace in Paris was abandoned for more than 20 years, gathering dust and standing lifeless and ignored at a busy cross-section in Barbès, a [...]
I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre lined with some of the most delicious architecture in Paris. It’s art deco ironwork, those tall glass windows bathed in light for artists in residence, colorful cul de sacs peeking out from behind corners; here is the Paris [...]
This is how I like my outdoor terraces: deserted, tourist-free and preferably childless (sorry parents but screaming kids are just not part of my vision for an al fresco paradise). But since we’re coming out of what seems like the longest winter yet, at the first hint of sun, you can bet everyone and their [...]
Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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If you’re stuck in the city on one of the warmest days of the year, it doesn’t
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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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In Paris, every first Wednesday of the month at noon, without fail you can hear the eerie wail of
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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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