Back from Paris
I spent the weekend of November 14-17th in Paris. I needed a change of scenery and that is just what I got.
I went to see my first play entirely in French, most of which I understood. Les Hommes Preferent Les Blonds, it didn’t occupy the highest brow on the cultural ladder but I got [...]
Suzanne Vega at the Bikini in Toulouse
Suzanne Vega played at a local club called the Bikini in Toulouse. Jean-Jacques, Natasha, Eva, and I went to see her play. Suzanne Vega played all the hits but she also played many songs from her new album. The new songs were quite good but very different. The new songs are less pop and more [...]
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio awarded 2008 Nobel Prize for literature
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature. Antoine Compagnon, a professor of French Literature at Columbia University, says there are two periods in Le Clezio’s work: it was more experimental in the 1960s and ’70s, and later it featured traveling and exoticism.
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Picasso et les Maîtres, new exhibition in Paris
There is a new exhibition about Picasso and those who influenced him. It is spread across 3 museums, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, the Musée du Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, until February 2nd.
Read about it in English.
Read about it in French.
Graffiti on snails, not in France!
Graffiti on snail shells, I was intrigued. I was looking for news items on Digg, My profile on Digg, try this hack to get more Diggs on your stories, and I ran across this story about graffiti artists in London who paint the shells of snails in different colors and in graffiti-esque patterns. Graffiti on [...]
Balkan Beat Box live in Toulouse
I just realized that I had written about planning to go to the Balkan Beat Box show in Toulouse but I never wrote how it was. I even had pictures in last Sunday’s photo dump from the show but no review. Well we have not gone to see much live music and we love to [...]