Articles tagged with "events"
Jazz For Parents and Kids
By Parisgirl | May 9th, 2008 |
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Jazz starts early this May with Finland in Paris - Finnish jazz performers set the stage for Place Saint Sulpice’s breezy tones. Throughout the warm weather months, Place St.... [Read this entry]
May 1st: Lilies of the Valley for Labor Day
By Parisgirl | May 1st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2008
Today is a holiday for everyone except those in the restaurant business. This year May 1st turns out to be a double-header -... [Read this entry]
August in Paris: Camp out and Rock en Seine!
By Parisgirl | April 21st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
2-Day Festival Passes have just gone on sale this week (75 Euros). If you’re already in Paris, and you’re one of the first 500 to book through FNAC... [Read this entry]
Learn to Speak French
By Parisgirl | March 14th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
“Why bother learning to speak French? It’s a dying language.”
This was the test question my examiner asked of me for my finals after studying French language and culture... [Read this entry]
French Cooking: Choucroute
By Parisgirl | March 13th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Choucroute Platter served at the Brussels Cafe, 71 Blvd. Exelmans, 75016
When it comes to ‘comfort food’, nothing does it better than ‘choucroute’ (pronounced ’shoo-croot’) or Alsatian saurkraut on... [Read this entry]
April in Paris: Marathon and Foire de Paris!
By Parisgirl | March 9th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
April in Paris takes on a whole new dimension when you consider that the month will start off with the annual Paris marathon on April 6th this year (2008). ... [Read this entry]
Bringing in the Chinese New Year in Paris’s 13th arrondissement
By Parisgirl | February 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2008
It may be the Year of the Rat, but in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, dragons were in abundance. The New Year began Thursday (Feb... [Read this entry]
Paris en Couleurs
By Parisgirl | February 7th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Robert Capa’s photo of the ‘New Look’ (greatly enlarged as an exhibition advertisment in front of Hotel de Ville)
The photo exhibition at Hotel de Ville (Paris’s City Hall) is... [Read this entry]
February - the month for blooming romance in Paris
By Parisgirl | February 4th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
“The Bewitching Hour - Sunset at Versailles”
Where patriotic red, white and blue blurrs romantic: Blue, White, and rose.
Photo by Lori Bertolini ©2007
Was there ever a more romantic... [Read this entry]
Birdsongs: Olivier Messiaen
By Parisgirl | January 29th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
When I was still a student in Paris, a friend sent me on a quest. He wanted me to get the autograph of a composer named Olivier Messiaen.
He... [Read this entry]
