Monthly Archives: April 2009

Les Graves Infos is an online news site, which doesn’t add a lot to the news itself, except for its weather forecasts. Each day, Nina presents the weather, and it’s always hot (at least in the studio). Below is yesterday’s … Continue reading →

Scientists have revealed the world’s most photographed landmarks by studying millions of images using a supercomputer. A random Eiffel Tower pic on Flickr: Butterflies and bubbles in Paris. Click for source. Experts at British Cornell University analyzed nearly 35 million … Continue reading →

French TV channel M6 scored well with the national edition of the British show How To Look Good Naked (3.3 million viewers). The show is supposed to help women get rid of their physical complexes by letting them pose nude … Continue reading →

Your Thursday links: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Christine Lagarde thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis First 100 Days Finance Minister shows America the funny side of France [Times] Paris receives a … Continue reading →

The Big Picture: Human landscapes from above Recently, photographer Jason Hawkes has been carrying his Nikon D3 aboard helicopters around the world, hanging out the doorway and capturing landscapes – most somehow affected by humans. In the Boston Globe he … Continue reading →

French artist Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard creates dream worlds, both funny and scary, illustrating the defects or the absurdity of our consumer society. Her models are fish, which she buys at local markets, then washes, scales and empties. The bodies end up … Continue reading →

Your Wednesday clicks: Battle of the derrieres… the day Carla met her match Carla’s agony as intimate photos of her with ex-lover are stolen in raid Valeo investigates claims that Morin bugged meetings about his payoff SocGen chief resigns over … Continue reading →

So much for eternal youth! Most respondents to the Reader’s Digest global survey are just fine with their limited shelf life here on earth. Not even the younger crowd consistently chooses immortality. In fact, more than 50 percent of those … Continue reading →

Lio (born Wanda Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, wiki) was a pop icon in France in the 1980s. Since then she’s mostly known for her appearances in TV shows and the odd attempt to return as a pop star. In both incarnations … Continue reading →

French vintage advertising — before swine flu made the headlines:

Your Tuesday clicks: French restaurants grudgingly agree to cheaper meals French restaurants feel the crunch Scene from La Grande Bouffe (1973) Rachida’s godfather ploy was last straw for Carla Cult leader escapes from French jail in helicopter Art’s Great Whodunit: … Continue reading →

Today is the 65th birthday of the original dandy Jacques Dutronc, who is not only a successful singer and actor himself, but has also a wife and a son working in show business. Have a good one!

The Sarkozys are in Spain, and Nick has finally understood he doesn’t have to stand on his toes to be respected (he’s the one with the baggy trousers, third from left): But that’s all irrelevant of course, because all eyes … Continue reading →

Balou just woke up from hibernation and has enjoyed his first breakfast. Shepherds is the Pyrenees have noticed winter is over. Balou, one of the Slovenian bears in the mountains has devoured his first sheep. The ban the bear campaign … Continue reading →

On Dark Roasted Blend: Food Art and Pimped Food, including this wonderful flying fish: