The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
I’m just back from a mythical place in Paris: La Coupole. Located at Boulevard du Montparnasse, this brasserie was created in 1927 and remained one of the hottest places to be seen at until the 60’s. People like Josephine Baker, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and a large number of other artists and celebrities of [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
From the archive: August 26 1974: The child isn't more than 10, a delicate, vivacious face which will outlast beauty, and an inexhaustible energy that keeps her jumping on the bed as if it were a trampoline, until her mother, Josephine Baker, finishes her telephone call
Chez le laquet! (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
I am still in France! I have a garden full of caravanning cousins After a visit to Chateau des Millandes I wish I looked like the gorgeous Josephine Baker. And in a flurry of excitement and large drum rolls this week Facebook found my teenage penpal - thankyou thankyou thankyou! Back sometime soon.
Afrobella (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Two years ago, I was exhausted. I’d stayed up all night writing my very first post and trying to learn how to embed a video on my brand new blog. I figured, what were the odds of anyone feeling like I do about Josephine Baker? I came to find out, they were much better than [...]
http://idiomato.com/rss?status=all (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
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English as a Second Language (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
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Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Piscine Josephine Baker [Flickr/Hippopeter] ·Dubai’s number one boutique [JC Report] ·Paris’ Piscine Josephine Baker is back up-and-running [TPB] ·URBN Hotel brings eco-luxury to China [LI] ·Meanwhile, Pam Anderson is bring eco-friendly hotel to Dubai [Luxist] ·And Victoria Beckham and...
The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The Piscine Josephine Baker, the floating pool on the Seine at the foot of the Bibliothèque Nationale, just reopened for the season through September 4. You can swim, take aquagym classes, or just sunbathe on the vast wooden deck and watch the boats chug by on the river. 10am-10pm Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10am-midnight on [...]
Urban Review STL (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Well not the person, she is long dead. however, a block-long section of Josephine Baker Blvd between Washington and Locust is being removed (map link), presumably for an undisclosed parking plan for Saint Louis University: In June of last year myself and others covered the razing of the historic Livery building at the [...]
boy culture (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Thirty-year-old Mexican telenovela actor Mauricio Ochmann sure isn't ugly, Betty. (Sidebar: He once starred in something called Dame Chocolate, which sounds like Josephine Baker's life story or an unauthorized bio of Willy Wonka.) Ochmann looks like macho candy in TV...
Hip Hop Caucus Blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Josephine Baker looks straight at you with bright eyes and shining smile, fearless and demanding attention. The time is 1935, and the St. Louis native who transfixed France and much of Europe with song and dance stares out from a poster advertising the film "Princess Tam-Tam." Baker starred as a simple African woman presented to Paris society as royalty. Baker's movie is one
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Josephine Baker's movie "Princess Tam-Tam" is one of five recalled on a set of U.S. postage stamps released Wednesday to honor vintage black cinema.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
WASHINGTON - Josephine Baker looks straight at you with bright eyes and shining smile, fearless and demanding attention. The time is 1935, and the St. Louis native who transfixed France and much of Europe with song and dance stares out from a poster advertising the film "Princess Tam-Tam." Baker starred as a simple African woman presented to Paris society as royalty.
D.C.GIRL@THEMOVIES (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
This is just neat news. I love Josephine Baker . Marlene Detrich may have entertained the Allies, but Jo' earned a Legion of Honor medal , spying for them. Hallelujah is right up there with the other black classics I remember seeing when I was a girl, Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather . And honoring the old school soundies? The first ever "music videos"? Even cooler. Black or white, folks just knew...
News & Information (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The US Postal Service (USPS), which last year lost a legal battle after refusing to mail postcards with a topless image of US-born chanteuse Josephine Baker, is honoring the late……Read more
