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Free Summer Nights Concert Series 3 Jul 2013 | 03:05 am
One of my favorite things on the Cote d’Azur is the free ‘Summer Nights’ Concert Series, the Soirees Estivales. This all-summer-long music festival takes place in all the little villages both near and...
No Trains, No Planes… 11 Jun 2013 | 04:48 pm
Getting around could be a little challenging this week! First an Air Traffic Controllers strike will be messing up your flight plans, as they try to cancel most domestic flights and delay countless ot...
Woody Allen Casting Call in Nice and Cannes 3 Jun 2013 | 04:56 pm
This just in: Woody Allen’s next film will shoot this summer on the Cote d’Azur! Code named WASP2013, the film is holding a casting call for up to 500 extras this Thursday and Friday in Nice and Ca...
How YOU can see Films at the Cannes Film Festival 18 May 2013 | 03:45 pm
They deliberately don’t publicize it, but there are lots of ways to see films at the Cannes Film Festival, even without a badge. …You just need to have the inside scoop on where to go and how to do ...
Cannes Film Festival Opening Night: DIY version! 15 May 2013 | 06:18 pm
Baz Luhrmann’s completely over-the-top vision of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ’The Great Gatsby’ opens the Cannes Film Festival tonight, while opening simultaneously all over France, offering a unique way t...
Nice while it lasted: 1€ bus tickets go the way of the Dodo 7 May 2013 | 07:59 pm
The famous 1€ Nice bus/tram ticket, formerly one of the best deals on the Cote d’Azur, has just jumped, …no, leaped …no, pole-vaulted to 1.50€, joined by the Day Pass spiking from 4€ to 5€, and the Ai...
Nice Jazz Fest Line Up Announced 20 Mar 2013 | 05:18 pm
This just in: The 2013 Nice Jazz Festival will open with Earth, Wind and Fire, close with George Benson, and groove to Chick Corea, Maceo Parker, Ben Harper, and Manu Katché in between. But in an atte...
New Name for the Coulée Verte: and the winner is… 17 Mar 2013 | 04:23 pm
The English translation of Coulée Verte is the rather unappetizing ‘Green Flow’, or even worse, ‘Green Drip’, so it’s great news that Nice’s new giant public garden is to be renamed. After opening u...
Tramway Line 2 Takes Another Detour… 13 Mar 2013 | 03:03 pm
It’s been a rocky road for the much-anticipated East-West Tramway Line 2 between the Airport and the Port. First it was to be on the Prom, then underground, …finishing at Riquier, …no, at the Port, no...
Love it or Hate it, brace yourself for Nice Carnival 15 Feb 2013 | 06:38 am
Take the true/false Carnival Quiz: Nice Carnival is… a) The 3rd largest Carnival celebration in the world. TRUE, after Brazil and Venice b) The perversion of a nearly 2000-year-old Catholic ...
