Posted in paris on Jan 31st, 2011
The sound of Iron & Wine set the trend when the low pitches and the sensitivity began to be on the rise again. The group became famous for their whispered, incredibly emotional, as mysterious as simple songs. Their leader is Sam Beam, who permeated the group’s sound with his sweet voice and poetic texts, producing [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 26th, 2011
Providing all kinds of services in exchange for sex is something that has become very fashionable in France to a point that people started advertising in newspapers and to the extent that the government itself had to intervene questioning how legal this practice is. What do you think? I think that everyone can do what [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 18th, 2011
When, in 1963, Julio Cortazar published Hopscotch, he was inaugurating the Latin American literary surrealism with a book that was somehow “the experience of a lifetime and the attempt to put it into writing”. However, Cortazar’s life was apparently quieter than reported in this beautiful literature work, in which the linear order of reading is [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 3rd, 2011
Patricia Lee Smith, better known as Patti Smith, is without a doubt one of the most important female figures and icons in music. This women by now 63 years old still has the same energy as when she was young. Sie is an American who grew up in the punk movement of New York and [...]
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Posted in paris on Dec 30th, 2010
The Jeu de Paume in Paris pays tribute to the photographer André Kertész with a great retrospective – the first one in Europe. Opened on September 28, the gallery exhibits original material and reproductions of one of the most important photographers of the 21st century, created along his long and profitable artistic career. With an [...]
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Posted in paris on Dec 23rd, 2010
On September 21st an exhibition that features over 180 works of the legendary Claude Monet opened at the Grand Palais in Paris. You can enjoy it until January 24, 2011. With more than 700,000 visitors expected at the Grand Palais, this magnificent exhibition is certainly an example of the Blockbuster dimensions necessary for the survival [...]
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Posted in paris on Dec 21st, 2010
Christmas is here, and while for some it is a time of magical joy and compassion, for other it is merely a commercial moment, to buy, sell and receive the capitalist treasures they desire. There is a lot of pressure to find the perfect gift for your special someone. Why not consider getting stocks, the [...]
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Posted in paris on Dec 14th, 2010
The Chemical Brothers is one of the biggest, most popular groups of electronic music in the world, with legions of fans, thanks to songs like “Golden Path”, “Hey Boy, Hey Girl” and “The Salmon Dance.” Why have they been so successful? Because the duo not only uses synthesizers and interesting beats, but has also [...]
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Posted in paris on Dec 2nd, 2010
The world of video games, portable consoles and next generation entertainment featuring realistic three-dimensional graphics and remote controls that allow you to do gymnastics, is a world that is full of men. Actually seeing a woman in front of a computer game or a video console often seems to us like a very curious and [...]
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Posted in paris on Nov 23rd, 2010
Beatriz Preciado, who was born in Burgos in 1970, is a famous philosopher and gender theorist, influenced by the ideas of Michel Foucault. She earned her doctorate at Princeton University, and where to this day she continues to work as a researcher. In the years following her PhD, also won the title of Master in [...]
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