Paris has been besieged by a massive army of hungry rodents, according to recent published reports. Roughly 6 million pesky rats are scurrying around the city, forcing the shutdown of several tourist
This morning, as I did a bit of grocery shopping at my favorite food market here in Providence, Rhode Island USA, we shoppers were treated to a surprise visit from Santa Claus, much to the delight of the many children on hand. This particular Santa certainly looked the part, with a broad face and a little round belly, that shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
Oddly, this Supermarket Santa spoke with a proper British accent, sounding very much like “King George IV” from The Crown (as played by British actor Jared Harris.) I suggest, if one decides to play Santa as a Brit, please give Father Christmas a working-class London cockney accent or ship-building Liverpool accent. Today (more than ever) we don’t want American children confusing the magnanimous magic of Santa Claus with the execrable machinations of autocracy. Give me a Santa who celebrates charity as well as democracy, and talks like a regular limey – or even better, like one of the Bowery Boys.
We dreamed, we heard: Seu Jorge will perform in Paris in 2017 as part of his stage tribute to David Bowie. Always on tour in North America, the singer-guitarist-pop sambiste crosses the Atlantic in 2017 in order to present the program loaded in emotion. He will play May 31, 2017 at the Olympia.
Since early November, Seu Jorge , 46, runs the North American continent – the United States and Canada – to present, alone on stage, her repertoire of Portuguese adaptations of classic David Bowie, disappeared on January 10, 2016. A book he released in 2004 in the offbeat comedy “the Life aquatic” by Wes Anderson, a film very loosely based on the adventures of commander Cousteau … During filming, he had sung in the conditons of live. Continue reading “Seu Jorge tour Tribute to David Bowie will pass through Paris in May”→