Category: Culture

“At the Cigale, the room vibrates at the same time as the music”

INTERVIEW – The pop-rock hall with its special acoustics, in the heart of Pigalle, celebrates its 30th anniversary. Jean-Louis Ménanteau, its director since 2011,

 

LE FIGARO – Why is La Cigale so special?

Jean-Louis MENANTEAU – It was a center of culture in Paris before the venue became a theater [it is a former erotico-kung-fu cinema]. Jacques Renault [the co-founder of the hall in 1987] wanted to make it a pop-rock room that allows amplified music to occur under decent conditions . In 1987, it was really no obvious, there were many places where the sound was not at all. It was also the period Jacques Lang, post-1981, very favorable to pop-rock sound.

Tell us about the acoustics of the room …

It is a set of elements that give the room its rich sound that can be hard-hitting without being aggressive. The architects  [ . . . ]

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This Whole Foods map of French cheese is a crime against dairy

The French cheese lovers of Twitter are having a little fun at the expense of Whole Foods after photos popped up online showing what appears to be a crime against the world’s best cheese.

Labeled “Cheeses From France,” the displays — allegedly seen in Detroit and Washington D.C. stores — features a stylized map of the country that incorrectly pinpoints the origins of cheeses famously named for the places they’re produced.

Oh la la!

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Mireille Darc: the most beautiful roles of the great grasshopper

Mireille Darc, who just left us at the age of 79, was able to invent in the 60s a new kind of woman liberated with mutinous charm under the leadership of Georges Lautner and Michel Audiard. In the second part of her career, influenced by Delon, she encamped darker roles as in Ice Breasts .

A film gave him her nickname. In 1965, Mireille Darc became the great grasshopper forever. An actress apart from the crazy chic that sticks perfectly to her time. Men, and not just anyone, would transform her into a symbol of the liberated woman who would take power in the 1970s.

After a few appearances in the early 1960s, Mireille Darc became famous with the comedy Pouic-Pouic by Jean Girault. She is Patricia Monestier, the half-ingenious, half-sophisticated daughter of a businessman who [ . . . ]

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