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Coeur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which Émile Zola called a "stone host placed on the open wound of the city," celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying of its first stone. To celebrate her ...
The Grand Palais, a striking Belle Epoque monument built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, has reopened with a bang this summer after a big restoration.(The glass-topped nave set the stage for ...
The Grand Palais represents the peak of Paris’s navel-of-the-world confidence during the belle époque – so much so that the vast beaux-arts glass-and-steel republican palace, built for the ...
Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague,' about the making of Jean-Luc Godard 'Breathless,' is more diverting French New Wave tribute than cinema history.
Kepler Interactive From its establishing shot of the Eiffel Tower bent in on itself, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wants you to know it is very French, if a little twisted. The turn-based RPG revels ...
Elsewhere in Paris at the Musée Carnavalet, a show titled Agnes Varda’s Paris, from here to there, which runs through August, examines the dialogue between the filmmaker-screenwriter and the ...
May 16-June 8; Seattle Public Theater, 7312 W. Green Lake Drive N., Seattle; $10-$100; 206-524-1300, seattlepublictheater.org ...
And finally, be sure to check out The Belle Époque: A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond by French historian Dominique Kalifa if you want to learn more about the real-life Belle Époque outside ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 undoubtedly transcends everything that makes it up—the story, the visuals, its biomes, the incredible soundtrack, its voice acting with voices like those of Charlie ...
The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris Jennifer Dasal. Bloomsbury, $32.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-63973-130-5 ...
Half an hour played in Paris and things are a little testy. France's discipline is rank. They've had two men in the bin. Peato Mauvaka somehow escapes a full red for a diving headbutt on Ben White ...
The Belle Epoque rolled in, and Paris’ elite retreated to a gilded cage of frivolity and ... a 450-seater, thrives on a first-come, first-served basis. Both operate from noon to midnight, ...