Valentines Day in Paris
What could be more romantic than Valentines Day in Paris. Air France is offering an irresistible Valentines day weekend package to Paris: Round-trip airfare, three nights in a three-star hotel,a Paris Panorama tour and Continental breakfast starting at $879 per person from most U.S. cities. Come and explore the amour capitol of the world with your loved one.
http://www.airfrance-holidays.com/site_afh/pub_detail.asp?id=17665&iRating=0&iFrom=2/1/2009&WT.svl=17665
Dita Von Teese at Crazy Horse
The legendary modern burlesque queen Dita von Teese is doing all her Gypsy Rose Lee moves with a special engagement at the Crazy Horse. Watch her seductively shed her special made designer clothes and accessories by Dior, Elie Saab, Mr. Pearl, and Stephen Jones. Christian Louboutin custom makes all of Dita's sexy shoes.
Le Crazy Horse
12 ave George V, 8th
Metro: George V
Reservations: 01 47 23 32 32
www.lecrazyhorseparis.com
Robert Frank
American born photographer Robert Frank is famous for capturing vivid black and white street photographs while living in New York in the 1950's. He also shot a series in Paris and the Jeu de Paume is presenting a show with a selection of the Paris photos chosen by Frank and Ute Eskildsen including the complete ensemble of photographs from his well known book The Americans. Frank's films "Pull My Daisy"(1959)and True Story (2004) are also being shown.
Jeu de Paume
1 place de la Concorde
Closed Monday
http://www.jeudepaume.org/?page=article&idArt=849&lieu=7
Salon de l'Agriculture
Alright die-hard foodies- Salon de Agriculture is one of the best food shows you will ever attend. Taste your way through over 1,000 exhibitors and 700 producers from France who give away free samples of foie gras ,wine, cheese, and meats. There are also 4,500 farm animals on display with an aquarium, doghouse, pony village, and last but not least a pig village. (Is that where Porky lives?).If you miss Green Acres farm life there's a full scale working farm.
Salon de l'Agriculture
February 21 - March 1
Porte de Versailles
Metro: Potre de Versailles
Open 9AM-7PM, till 11PM Friday February 27
Admission:12 euros
http://www.salon-agriculture.com/no_cache/en/home/
I am pleased as punch to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Tours, which are 3-hour walking tours I will personally be leading. The Eye Prefer Paris Tour includes many of the places I have written about such as small museums & galleries, restaurants, cafes & food markets, secret addresses, fashion & home boutiques, parks, and much more.
I look forward to meeting you on my tours and it will be my pleasure and delight to show you my insiders Paris.
Check it out at www.eyepreferparistours.com
OMG.
It looks like Dita has lost her retro allure and iconic authenticity and has opted to compete with all the emaciated girls in Hollywood (and a few notables from England). She's skinny as a stick, and a pulled angular face like that does not a man attract. Sad. Sigh.
Posted by: Cheryl | February 02, 2009 at 06:15 PM