Early Friday morning, actor Asia Argento, who has become vocal within the #MeToo movement after detailing her own experience being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein in 1997, tweeted extensively about her her time working with the film director Catherine Breillat.[ . . . ]
Source: Asia Argento Calls Catherine Breillat a ‘Sadistic and Downright Evil’ Director
Wine, for when you want to party but still feel classy about it. Like all edible alcohol, wine comes from fermentation, and for millennia artisans have honed their craft at turning humble grapes into the drink of the gods. So suffice it to say growing good grapes is crucial to making good wine.
That’s why French wine growers have such a beef with moths. These thirsty bootleg butterfly bugs love swooping down and eating grapes right off the vine. They have the nerve to get between us and our wine! But fear not, a recent wine industry study revealed that in the War For Wine we have an animal kingdom ally in the fight against moths, an animal we’re already used to associating with superheroics. It turns out bats are the best natural defense wine can get.
It’s really just the food cycle wine growers should be thankful for. Of the 22 local Bordeaux bat species, researchers observed that 19 of them specifically love to feast on moths that target wine grapes. Droppings analysis confirmed that it was these harmful moths being preyed on. Other insects were spared.
With this knowledge, wine growers could use these bats to their advantage. They could act like organic pesticides, clearing the fields of insects while not introducing harmful chemicals into the ecosystem. It would take some effort though. The bats instinctively hunt in wilder regions, so they would have to be somehow funneled towards these domesticated vineyards [ . . . ]
Read morea at GREEK.com: The Best Defense for French Wine Growers? Bats! – Geek.com
The theater of Croix-Rousse in Lyon poses both feet in the legend of the American Great West with “Calamity / Billy”. Claron McFadden and Bertrand Belin form a terribly attractive duo. At the helm of this musical tale, Jean Lacornerie and Gérard Lecointe plunge into the scabrous universe of these two emblematic figures. After Lyon, the show will tour all over France.
A mother and a kid: Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid, two founding figures of the American myth. Two bad guys who are dear to us, desperados and so human. From her, we know the letters to her daughter, clumsy, loving … And apocryphal. From the terrible child, there remain documents, police reports, testimonies of which Michael Ondaatje drew a poetic work. It is for them, and around these writings, to tell their tragic destinies that meet some great figures of the music of today.
Monsieur Pas De Merde is a huge fan of both the Liminanas and Bertrand Belin, so this recent clip was a real find. Listen and tell me what you think!
[google translation] The World Championship Cheese contest was held March 6-8, in the United States, in the state of Wisconsin. A competition that is appreciated by cheese lovers as much as by dairy professionals, this competition has dedicated the best products in the world. Obviously, the French producers did not miss to be at the rendezvous. They even won a few rewarding medals. But it must be admitted: they have also failed … Yes, yes, almost. By letting another nation of eaters stinking dripping tricks win a category that normally should not escape us, that of camembert [ . . . ]
Read more of this SHAMEFUL story at: Shame The best Camembert in the world is … Quebecois! – Vsd
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