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Travel Tip: Paris Bakeries Open in Summer 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
If you've spent months fantasizing about getting your hands on a sublime, crusty Paris baguette, be forewarned when visiting this month: many of the city's bakeries, including the cream of the crop, c...
Paris for Bibliophiles: The City's Best Bookshops 22 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
Kindle and Amazon may be sending shockwaves through the bookshop industry and threatening to close down purveyors of the printed word, but in France, which still counts thousands of bookshops-- more p...
Around the Corner: Paris in September 16 Aug 2013 | 07:43 am
September in Paris is more pleasant than reputed. Clear skies and crisp air are actually more common in September than in July or August, when muggy thunderstorm conditions tend to reign, so lounging ...
Tasting Paris: Exploring Gourmet Food Shops 14 Aug 2013 | 07:31 am
Where can you find, under a single roof, whole bars of luxury-grade chocolate from Valrhona or truffles from Michel Cluizel, a good bottle of truffle oil, a few chanterelle mushrooms, and a box or two...
Practical Paris: Useful French Travel Vocabulary 9 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
I once overhead a group of English-speaking tourists talking about how Paris has changed under the pressures of globalization, becoming a friendlier place for those who aren't versed in the Gallic ton...
Chasing The Light in Paris: Best Impressionist Museums 7 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
The term "impressionism" might today conjure up pleasant associations among art amateurs-- the hypnotic, surreal use of light, bold, stylized brushstrokes and beautiful, inoffensive natural scenes-- b...
A Ghost Town Paris...in China? 5 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
A shirtless man with a bit of a paunch leans out from his fifth or sixth-floor balcony, gazing at the nearby Eiffel Tower from a typically eighteenth-century building in Paris. Newlyweds are shot abov...
Paris for Nightowls: Best Cocktails in Town 4 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
Cocktails are easy enough to find in Paris, but unlike New York, where "mixology" is now as banal a term as "beer garden" in hipster enclaves like Brooklyn, the truly creative cocktail remains somewha...
In Pictures: The Eiffel Tower, Past and Present 29 Jul 2013 | 07:25 am
It's too easy to forget that the monstrous iron tower that's become the symbol par excellence of Paris was once reviled by many as an eyesore on the late 19th century skyline, and was supposed to be t...
Nightlife Notes: Best Spots for Latin Dancing in Paris 28 Jul 2013 | 06:38 pm
As our contributor Colette Davidson notes this week, a palpable Latin craze has taken over Paris in recent years. Brazilian caipihrinhas are all but supplanting kir royales as the cocktail of choice i...
