When I'm in Paris

Paris museums are not all about crowds and famous paintings. You can love the Louvre and leave it too and savor instead, one of the small, more accessible museums that impart a particularly Paris flavor like the private Musee Jacquemart-Andre at 158 Boulevard Hausmann in the fashionable 8th.
The Jacquemart-Andre is a highly personal place, a [...]

Like many other European countries outside of the UK, France has always struggled with it’s own musical identity. In the second half of the 20th century, the music scene in France ended up mimicking the sounds of popular American and British artists. Starting in the 1980’s, France saw an influx of new and distinctive rock [...]

Paris is divided into twenty neighborhoods or arrondissements. Each neigborhood spirals out like a snail shell from the center of the city, with the low digits all close to the center and the higher number forming the outer rim. The Seine divides the city into the right bank and left bank (rive droite [...]