“L’Affaire Farewell,” a Cold War thriller based on real events, will be the French Spotlight film at the Newport Beach Film Festival. The French Spotlight event will be on Tuesday, April 27 starting at 7:30pm at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California. The screening will be followed by an after -party.
Tickets for the screening are $15, tickets for the after-party are $25, and tickets to attend both are $35. After-party with participating Fashion Island Retailers: Ever, True Religion, 7 For All Mankind, Y-3. Participating Restaurants: Black Market Bakery, Food Perfected.
The April issue of French Elle features plus size model Tara Lynn on the cover and in a twenty-page-long editorial, for the magazine’s first celebration of women who are ronde.
The Lourdes church has since returned to the flock, announcing it would continue to buy wafers made in France – but only after negotiating a price reduction.
Haggling with nuns over the price of communion wafers? C’est vraiment la crise.
At least six different universities are locked in a squabble for the brand, which in the eyes of foreigners — but not the French — has a prestige on a par with Oxford or Harvard.
A 33-year-old boulanger of Senegalese origin wins the 2010 Grand Prize for “meilleure baguette de Paris.“ He’ll be taking over management of his boulangerie in April, and will be the official provider of bread to the Elysée Palace. Add it to your itinerary: Grenier à pain, 38 rue des Abbesses.
Clad in her leopard-skin shrug and dark sunglasses, 69-year-old Ruth Flowers has conquered French clubland from the Cannes Film Festival to the top Paris nightspots with a mix of old-school hits, electrobeat and bling-bling style.
Awards at the World Champion Cheese Contest in Wisconsin 18 March might provide a clue as to why the Swiss hold the world record for eating cheese. First and second place awards went to Swiss cheesemakers.
A fascinating exploration of the historical and cultural development of the French language from the bestselling authors of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong.
Other American habits also go against the French grain, said Wendy Lyn, a Florida-born and now Paris-based guide to all things culinary: sharing of entrees, asking for substitutions and ordering a salad or just one course in a prix fixe meal.
This 1962 animated feature is the reason why Francophilia exists. If you’ve never seen it, do! The music is great, the abstract backdrops are über kitsch, and the Paris scenes look just like those watercolors that half of America owned in the 50s (when most Americans were francophiles). On Amazon.
