Quick. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the French? Snob; arrogant; cheese; snails; good food; style; fashion; mus...
New York Times | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green
They're clunky, heavy and ugly, but they have become modish -- and they are not this season's platform shoes. A year after the introduction of the st...
Beth Arnold | Posted 06.06.2008 | Entertainment
Yves Saint Laurent fabulously reinvented the way women dressed for a modern world; the most stylish women around the world wore his sophisticated couture dreams.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.23.2008 | Living
May is Bike Month NYC, according to Transportation Alternatives, so it's a good time to report on a trip up and down the Seine with my wife Alice usin...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.15.2008 | Media
In Paris last month my wife Alice and I chanced to walk past the Paris Historical Library and discovered housed in its basement through July an exhibi...
Joan Z. Shore | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
Suddenly, being articulate, polite, and well-educated is snobbery. Dressing formally in a tie and jacket is pretentious. What are we looking for? A world leader or a bowling buddy?
Beth Arnold | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Thousands of people lined the streets in Paris along the Olympic torch route, protesting China's lack of human rights and bringing attention predominantly to the Tibetan cause.
Beth Arnold | Posted 03.23.2008 | Living
Easter and the beginning of Spring always feel hopeful to me. The new growth of a year buds its baby green, and I feel reborn.
Elizabeth Bard | Posted 03.04.2008 | Living
In France, the Salon d'Agriculture is a huge event -- imagine fashion week, but with fuzzier chicks.
Kate Betts | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living
Is the anti-Hillary movement in the fashion front row just a case of piling on? Or is it French male chauvinism?
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
We participate in the process of renewal to hopefully rebuild some of what Bush destroyed in terms of our goodwill abroad. We "expats" live with the results of those years everyday.
AP | Adam Schreck | Posted 01.09.2008 | Business
British Airways plans to launch a new airline in June that will offer direct service between New York and the European mainland, catering mainly to bu...
Conor Friedersdorf | Posted 11.28.2007 | Media
What news coverage of the Paris riots needs is citizen journalists who live within the troubled suburbs and are willing to share their insight into the mindset and tactics of the rioters.
The Guardian (U.K.) | Posted 11.26.2007 | Home
Dozens of youths descended on Villiers-le-Bel on Sunday evening, torching the police station, looting shops and setting cars and dustbins on fire. The...
ABC Action News | Posted 10.22.2007 | Entertainment
James Lipton, the host of U.S. talk show, Inside the Actors' Studio, once worked as a pimp in Paris, France. The revered TV presenter, who has sat do...
Hello Magazine | Posted 09.18.2007 | Entertainment
It isn't easy to hog the limelight at a star-studded Dior party in the world's fashion capital, but stunning Sharon Stone did just that when she atten...
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Dominic West, the underappreciated lead of the HBO show "The Wire", gave...
There's a lesson for us all in the recent story of a couple who had been married for 80 years.They wisely...
Watch as Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster...
This speech was given today at the D.A.R. Constitutional Hall Ladies...
Carine Fabius | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living