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...middle of Manhattan. Britain's Great Train Robbery was pulled on Aug. 8, 1963, and Trotsky was murdered on Aug. 20, 1940. The month is famous for violent acts. In August 1914 Germany got World War I going by declaring war on everybody, and in August 1792 a Parisian mob stormed the Tuileries Palace. (That was before everybody started leaving Paris in August.) In August 1907 the first motorized taxicab made its appearance on the streets of New York; more violence still. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed on Aug. 27, 1928, without which there would be no world peace...
...Food Chocolate and Zucchini www.chocolateandzucchini.com The blogger here is English-speaking Parisian Clotilde Dusoulier, who professes to love every food-related act, from shopping for ingredients to garnishing a plate to consuming the results, and recounts all of it with unpretentious aplomb. Recipes are indexed. Extras include a Bloxicon page, where you can brush up on French culinary terms from cassoulet to ganache, and a helpful Conversions cheat sheet. Honorable mention: The Accidental Hedonist, written with flair by one Kate Hopkins. Newsy, political and practical all at once (she offers 14 pointers "for better enjoyment of your cheese...
...Palais screen was streaked with guilty consciences. And as Sith ends with its plot conflicts in midair, leading up and back to the original 1977 Star Wars film, so many of the Cannes entries ended opaquely. Instead of a satisfied "Aha!", audiences were left muttering, "Huh?" In Hidden, a Parisian TV host (Daniel Auteuil), his elegant wife (Juliette Binoche) and attractive son are menaced when ominous videotapes and threatening messages drop through their mail slot. Auteuil's lingering unease over a vindictive act he committed as a boy leads him to suspect his old victim had a hand...
...restore your sense of wonder Vietnam's relentless modernization means there are increasingly fewer opportunities to step back into the country's past. But the splendid Café Tung is an exception. With its retro skai-covered sofas and Jacques Brel posters, it looks more like a 1960s Parisian cellar than a coffee shop in the present-day Central Highlands town of Dalat. Not that there are any complaints from the clientele, who comprise a fair slice of Dalat's artists and intellectuals (the town is Vietnam's pre-eminent bohemian enclave). From early morning, they gather to read...
...Vietnam's relentless modernization means there are increasingly fewer opportunities to step back into the country's past. But the splendid Café Tung, tel: (84-63) 821 390, is an exception. With its retro skai-covered sofas and Jacques Brel posters, it looks more like a 1960s Parisian cellar than a coffee shop in the present-day Central Highlands town of Dalat. Not that there are any complaints from the clientele, who comprise a fair slice of Dalat's artists and intellectuals (the town is Vietnam's pre-eminent bohemian enclave). From early morning, they gather to read...