Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Time for some new music, after a week of looking back. There's a new single (album coming up) from Isabelle Boulay , dedicated to the fall. Chanson pour les mois d'hiver isn't Les feuilles mortes (there's a tad more sunlight), but a grown-up, solid song that steers on the right side of mainstream to appeal to me. Clara plume (pictured) is, like Luciole for instance, a slammeuse (a young poet that...
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Mordi, he of the brilliant Blowupdoll blog , made his list of poptastic French albums of the past 10 years. Alizée (no.7) is pictured. 1. Calogero - Pomme C. (2007) The emotive vocals of calogeo enfused with the songwriting of zazie make this album a pop/rock french masterpiece. 2. Carla Bruni - Comme Si De Rien N'etait (2008) i was surprised how much i enjoyed this - it blended all my favourite...
Thoughts on music (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Over the last few days there has been lot of discussion about music in 2009 and, I have to admit, I've been involved in some of it whether that be in person or, as this evening on the likes of MySpace and perpetuating that, right here right now. That fine, in so far as it goes, but why draw a line under 2009 in music when there are still two months to go? I know that the few weeks before Christmas...
Suck It Up (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Actually, my week has been more like _uck it up! When the pressure is on, it's a bad idea to try to keep up with blogs and tweets and the like. Dashing off a few words can be deadly. So, these words will be measured. When I am writing, every novel has a song that I associate with it, and I usually play the song over and over until it melts into every cortical fold and becomes subtext to the novel....
Eater SF (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
While San Francisco restaurants await the Obama administration's stance on the Healthy SF lawsuit, the Appeal notices a hilarious exchange in the LAT between Zazie owner Jennifer Piallat and a customer who was offended by the $1 surcharge: "Though her...
Space Ref (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
A 120-minute global event featuring musical performances, the Poetic Social Mission seeks to raise awareness through artistic illustration of the humanitarian struggles and solutions associated with water.
Althouse (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Zazie, the cutest ever girl in film : Zazi: Najibullah Zazi, one of three men held in U.S. terror probe, indicted for conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, arguing the nation's highest court shouldn't hear the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's challenge of the city's requirement that employers provide health care. Joining...
Eater SF (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
SAN FRANCISCO—At least two local restaurants are actually going against the tide when it comes to the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's legal fight against the...
Politics (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
By Steven T. Jones Zazie insures its workers, wants other restaurants to do the same, and has the best Crab Benedict in town. While the City Attorney’s Office prepares for the final battle in its defense of the Healthy San...
In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
by Raymond Queneau (Original title: Le Vol d'Icare ) Fiction, 1968 (English translation, 1973) Oneworld Classics , trade pb, 164 p. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright In late-nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he’s working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve...
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
Every summer I try to make ratatouille at least once or twice. This unusually vibrant painting by Renoir, depicting onions, peppers, tomatoes and eggplant, should give everyone the urge to go to the nearest farmers' market. Unless you are lucky enough to have your own vegetable garden. Ratatouille can be messed up if the tomatoes are not the highly flavorful summer variety. It's one dish I never make...
TONY Blog (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
Catch this film tonight: May Fools
GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
I hope everyone enjoyed Flag Day on Sunday. I spent the day cooking for a block party on my street and wasn't able to post. Monday I was still too tired and/or busy to post. Posting will probably slow down even more than usual during the summer months. There is much to be done around the house, many people will be on vacation, and the heat tends to enervate everyone. In France they are still talking...
Quomodocumque (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
How can I have forgotten to put his blog on my blogroll? Well, it’s up there now — a great place for thoughtful posts on number theory both contemporary and historical, not to mention engaging diversions on mysterious symbols on slide rules and the important question of whether Grothendieck appears in the movie of Zazie [...]
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