France Culture

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• Food, France & "rigorous sensual intellectuality"

  
  Crunchy Con — Authority: 697
  This afternoon, I took my Honda in for an oil change, and sat in the waiting room at the garage reading the food writer John Thornes essay collection, "Pot on the Fire." When my car was ready, I stood at the counter making chit-chat with the Honda guy about Thanksgiving. We got to talking about food, and it turns ...
  1 day ago

• Book Review: My Life in France by Julia Child

  
  Amy Letinsky — Authority: 112
  My Life in France  has been on my to-read list since I saw the Julia and Julia film, which I loved.  Nora Ephron is the uncontested master (mistress?) of the romantic comedy.  And what made this particular comedy so romantic was the relationship between Julia Child and her husband Paul.  I love to read about ...
  3 days ago

• Nicolas Sarkozy provokes French left by honouring Albert Camus

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Anti-intellectual leader accused of point-scoring • Authors admirers wary of posthumous recognition French intellectuals have heaped scorn on a proposal by Nicolas Sarkozy to bestow the countrys greatest posthumous honour upon the writer Albert Camus, accusing the rightwing president of trying to cash in on ...
  6 days ago

• Korean model Daul Kim found dead, suicide suspected

  
  Lucire: Insider — Authority: 132
  Daul Kim, the South Korean model, was found dead at her Paris apartment on Thursday morning, according to sources.    Initial reports suspect that the model has died by her own hand. [Update, 12.24 GMT: the Associated Press reports that Kim was found hanged in her apartment.]    Kim, who had appeared on ...
  1 week ago

• La Main of the Match

  
  Irish Left Review — Authority: 431
  Sometimes a team needs a leader, to take a game into their hands and turn it around. For France, Henry was that man. A disorganised and unmotivated French side were harried and fraught by an under-valued Irish team, but extra time put the win up for grabs – and it was the French who reached [...]
  1 week ago

• See the Medieval Cathedral of Amiens – by night!

  
  Europe a la Carte Blog — Authority: 130
  The Picardy city of Amiens may not be off the beaten track, and La Cathédrale Notre-Dame is not exactly a hidden gem. For the many thousands of tourists that visit the Somme battlefields, Amiens is always included on their itinerary, and the Cathedral can be seen for miles around. But the Cathedral in colour is one ...
  1 week ago

• See the Medieval Cathedral of Amiens – by night!

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 158
  The Picardy city of Amiens may not be off the beaten track, and La Cathédrale Notre-Dame is not exactly a hidden gem. For the many thousands of tourists that visit the Somme battlefields, Amiens is always included on their itinerary, and the Cathedral can be seen for miles around. But the Cathedral in colour is one ...
  1 week ago

• Get Running At France’s Human Hamster Hotel

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 553
  Theme rooms for the furry friendlyFrench workers tired of the rat race have been offered the chance to live like a hamster for the night instead. For only 99 euros a night (£88), people in Nantes can cage themselves in the specially-designed hotel.  (video after jump…)Visitors can run in a giant wheel and eat ...
  1 week ago

• THE SIMS 3 WORLD ADVENTURES

  
  Free Download — Authority: 180
  The Sims return yet again in this third full evolution of the long-running and always-expanding sim series. Players can take their Sims on new journeys to famous real-world inspired destinations around the globe and seek out new adventures. While exploring the landmarks of an exotic city, there is no telling what the ...
  1 week ago

• French novelist hits back after MP says she must show greater reserve

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Goncourt prize winner Marie MDiaye says politicians call for her to tone down criticism of Sarkozy is grotesque The winner of this years Goncourt prize has spoken out against an MPs "grotesque" calls for her to tone down her criticisms of the French government. In an interview with Libération, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Merkel and Sarkozy in first joint Armistice memorial

  
  Eideard — Authority: 445
  Remembrance Day brings France and Germany together.
  2 weeks ago

• Spanish Culture Minister: No “3-Strikes” for File-Sharers

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 161
  Says the govt “is not considering punitive measures for the end user of Internet,” and will focus instead on web sites that illegally host copyrighted material and those that profit from them. The Spanish govt has now officially rejected any plans to disconnect illegal file-sharers from the Internet a la a ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Our Time Just Isn’t Enough

  
  ninme — Authority: 478
  The Times – Intellectual propertyWhy isn’t Britain as brazen as France in celebrating its greatest thinkers? No other country has quite this same cadre of men and women who can be introduced as “intellectuals” without making everyone else struggle to contain a smirk. In Britain, “intellectual” is ...
  3 weeks ago

• UNESCO news: Poland is national partner for Denkmal 2010

  
  Special News — Authority: 110
  Denkmal is the name of the European Trade Fair for Conservation, Restoration and Old Building Renovation. According to UNESCO , the patron for Denkmal , it is an “outstanding platform  for the international exchange of experience in heritage conservation, it is a successful symbiosis of exhibition and  special ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sunday News

  
  Mixtapes for Hookers — Authority: 132
  [Because I spent most of the week reading about prostitution in Rhode Island, this news update is abbreviated.] The Village Voice called wrestling organization Ring of Honor the Best Place To See Straight Men Get All Homoerotic.  Wrestling fans responded, obviously, by calling for the death of people from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Asterix and the golden jubilee

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  As the perennially plucky Gaul turns 50, Michelle Pauli travels to France to meet his co-creator and the translator who helped him conquer an English readership Asterix fever is hitting the French capital this week. As the doughty little Gaul and his man-mountain of a friend Obelix mark their 50th birthday, the whole ...
  4 weeks ago

• Astérix conquers Paris with new exhibit

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  For half a century they have been fending off Roman attacks from their village, armed only with fearlessness, flying menhirs and a cauldron of magic potion. But now Astérix and his band of indomitable Gauls are invading Lutetia – modern-day Paris – and determined to make their presence felt. Fifty years after ...
  4 weeks ago

• Asterix the underdog

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  France may not be what it once was. But on the eve of his 50th birthday, Asterix reminds us of national traits we can be proud of This month marks the 50th birthday of Frances most popular comic book. Back in October 1959, writer René Goscinny and illustrator Albert Uderzo had their first comic strip published in ...
  4 weeks ago

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