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20 Produits Pharmaceutiques
14:19 - 18.11.2008
1. Nurophen (ibuprofen)
2. Nuxe (natural but slick skincare)
3. Biafine (wonder multi-use cream)
4. Bion (powerful vitamins)
5. Doliprane (fever medicine)
6. Caudalie (grape-based skincare)
7. Phyto (plant-based hair products)
8. La Roche-Posay (sensitive skin products)
9. Vichy (thermal spring water products)
10. Compeed (bandages)
11. Avène (sensitive skin products)
12. Manix (condoms)
13. Klorane (plant based hair and skin products)
14. Nicopatch (nicotine patches)
15. Mustela (baby skin care)
16. Biotherm (skin care)
17. Darphin (aromatherapy based skin care)
18. Ducray (skin care)
19. T.leClerc (cosmetics)
20. Oenobiol (supplements) -
Joël Robuchon to Launch His New Book - Seats Available
14:04 - 18.11.2008
Joël Robuchon will launch his new cookery book in English entitled ?The Complete Robuchon? at WH Smith on Thursday, 11th December at 7:30 p.m. The book signing will be preceded by a question and answer session with one of France?s most famous chefs and a signed copy of his cookery book has quite a cachet.
The French version ?Le Tout Robuchon? will also be available. If you would like to attend, please note that
only guests who have reserved their copies by the 1st of December will be guaranteed a place and copies of the book.Please RSVP by responding to Hannah Robin hannahrobin (at) whsmith.fr.
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BD review: Paul à la pêche by Michel Rabagliati
14:55 - 18.11.2008
Adrian K. Sanders writing for I V Y paris
Across the sea, in the smaller, more nasal and religious version of Paris called Montreal is a bustling BD scene. The famous English language publisher Drawn and Quarterly, home to BD greats Seth, Adrian Tomine and Julie Doucet is here but it should never be forgotten that the French language BD is thriving as well.
One publisher in particular brings us the world of Paul, the creation of long time graphic designer Michel Rabagliati. Les Editions de La Pastèque have published nearly all of Rabagliati's "Paul" stories in beautiful volumes (that are color coded!). Paul, the reflective and ponderous auto-biographical hero is a likeable everyman and Rabagliati handles him with deft humor and a resounding sense of humbleness.
Paul à la pêche sees Paul and his wife Lucie go on vacation with their two friends who are raising their own children to a lakeside fishing camp. Seeing his friends and their children has Paul mixed up in all sorts of existential crises. Lucie and Paul are trying to have their first baby, and Paul looks back on his own upbringing, the importance of his family, and the future that might be in store for him as on display by his friend's children.
The theme is familiar, but the honest and open approach to taking the big step is done with a real human touch. The added bonus of seeing just how kooky Canadiens really are keeps things light and fun - seeing various visual iterations of the gros mot "tabernac" is definitely worth a chuckle.
Rabagliati lives up to his heritage as a graphic designer - the page layouts are gorgeous, and the pacing of the narrative makes the story a joy to read. From the quiet moments between Lucie and Paul to the boisterous world of the sport fishermen, Rabagliati's command of composition never falters. In particular, Paul's memory of a nightmarish fishing trip as a boy is fantastic (seen at left).
It's interesting to compare BD coming from Montreal with the typical French stuff. Much like the dialect differences, the real joy in Canadian BD is reading something that feels very familiar but as you explore deeper, is decidedly different and equally wonderful.
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Soirée d?ouverture du TEMA HIP-HOP
14:54 - 17.11.2008
TEMA Hip Hop kicks off Friday, November 21st at the Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d'Or - Barbara.
The lineup is looking pretty good. The range and types of talent being put on display (Female Rappers!) is definitely refreshing and the fact that it's free just makes it that much better.
OXMO PUCCINO INVITES:
LANA TEDY BLOW
ONCLE BEN EDI
ENIGMATIKShow starts at 8 pm.
Free entry upon invitation with limited space available.Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d'Or - Barbara
1 rue Fleury 75018 Paris
Métro : Barbès-Rochechouart
Bus : 30 - 31 - 54 - 56 - 65
RER : Gare du Nord
01 53 09 30 70
contact [AT] fgo-barbara [DOT] fr -
November Picks: Sigur Ros, Hot Chip, Joan as Policewoman, Noah and the Whale, Eli Paperboy Reed
14:07 - 14.11.2008
Jayson Harsin writing for I V Y paris
It may be getting colder in late November, but Paris is burning (musically too). Allow the cheesy weather metaphors a reprieve for yet another sentence.
On November 15, Paris gets Iced. Iceland's Sigur Ros (featured left) has in recent years been the posterboy for post-rock. Weird, falsetto voices (in Icelandic) and lush interplanetary soundscapes mesmerize with electronic shimmys and drones, as well as high feedback guitar strumming. They give you the sense of orbiting the earth, becoming a human satellite, when you listen.
This year SR released their fifth full-length album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (translation for the couple of readers nonfluent in Icelandic: With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly), which is slightly less wall-of-sound than past albums, containing short, airy pop songs like "Gobbldigook," and clearly distinguishable instruments. The more "tethered" selections of this album may merit the venue choice at the Zenith instead of the nearest IMAX theater. Zenith, 19h30 complet/full (check Craig's List, les Inrocks forum, or try scalpers for some spots).
Next check out the November 16 night of the Festival Les Inrocks at La Cigale. The lineup features Hot Chip, Cut Copy, Late of the Pier, Metronomy, and Kennedy. UK's Hot Chip is perhaps the buzzin'est act of the bunch. Their brand of electropop, catchier than techno thumps and loops, but contagiously danceable, won NME's best album of the year 2006, and their fourth album won album of the month for January 2008 by the influential Mixmag. Witness the video evidence:
On November 19 Brooklyn's Joan as Policewoman rolls into the Maroquinerie with sirens blaring. ?Beauty is the new punk rock,? her myspace page somewhat pretentiously announces. Beauty may be relative, convulsive, ineffable, and/or a revolutionary ideal in a time Joan finds saturated with apathy and distrust, but her music is at least an honest chasing after that elusive ideal. The guitar work sometimes recalls the early Cure (such as ?The Forest?) at others a nostalgic horn-backed lounge soul, while vocals even recall the silk-throated Madeleine Peyroux or Feist. A pastiche that has yet to arise in the indie world, Joan?s music exudes a fleeting innocence, usually found by dusting off scratchy vinyl.
Witness exhibit number 2:November 20's Inrocks Indie Club at La Maroquinerie features Noah and the Whale, who is tearing up the CMJ chart in the U.S. What is it those college kids dig in Noah? A catchy indie folk-pop, that features quirky vocals, never to have been corrupted by a voice lesson. Some songs are twangier than others, with a bit of violin in the mix. See for yourself.
On November 27 arguably the greatest new soul sensation returns to the Maroquinerie. Was here in the summer and blew a small Maroquinerie audience away in the middle of les vacances. Perfectly pickled soul vocals moved effortlessly between slow Sam Cooke-d croons and James Brownesey yelps, giving him the unchallenged title of best new indie artist of the retro soul genre (but hey, he could simply take Best New Indie Artist, period). He belted out songs that made the more casual soul fan blink, "Is this a Sam, uh, Cooke cover? Or stammer, "Was that Wilson P-P-Pickett?"
Alas, no, he treated the audience to few covers, but the fact that the Amy Winehouse-led soul revival even wonders about it suggests the Paperboy is the Shit.
This ain't no Blues Brothers cover band. And this ain't another Vanilla Ice. And the live performance is as lively as it should be: a demi-Black Baptist Sunday sermon. No minstrelsy. Just true love. This guy has been studying the soul tradition for years, singing along, letting the spirits stake out a claim in his head and heart.
Honorable Mentions: Wolf Parade, Nov 25, Le Trabendo (beautiful song writing, and equally beautiful, baleful vocals); Mercury Rev, 25 Nov. L'Elysee Montmartre (kings of '90s American indie pop, psychadelic distortion).
Point Ephémère is a fantastic stopping-off point for all your artistic curiosities (music, visual arts and dance). Located on Canal Saint Martin the centre also serves as a bar, concert venue and passable french restaurant. The venue is run by Usines Ephémère, a non-profit organization who transform industrial wastelands into art centres to support emerging artists.
Cosmoson
The annual Festival Emergences will take place
this year the 26th thru 29th of September. An international festival
dedicated to electronic cultures and emerging artistic forms,
Emergences brings together French players in the digital creation scene
- cultural centres, artistic collectives, universities, research
laboratories, multimedia and video production companies.
I had a lot more time for Communism before I came to live in France.......but that's another story. I might be tempted to the Fete de 
Paris' erotic bookstore is just the thing if you feel like some titillation. It's all here: essays, novels, bande dessinée (French comic strips) and nude and erotic photography, both gay and straight.