April In Paris. Oui. That’s What I’m Talking About

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The weather in the Northeast has been spectacular. Imagine a beautiful day like that as you stroll around the heart of historic, romantic Paris with your partner? Or explore museums, hit the clubs or kick back at a cool lounge with your bestie numéro un?

Why imagine? Download this month’s issue and (re)discover the City of Light like you’ve never seen it before. Our team has all visited their recently and lived there in the not too distant past. We know and love Gai Paree and you’ll feel that as you read our family of articles on this city we adore.

April In Paris With ManAboutWorld

Maybe you’ll meet this gendarme!

April in Paris conjures up romantic images of you and a special someone strolling along the Seine, warm croissants in hand.

Make it happen with ManAboutWorld’s latest issue with lots of up-to-the-minute coverage of the City of Light. If you subscribe already, download April with the app. If you don’t subscribe, download the issue in the AppStore here.

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Paris Is In The House

The cover looks so much cooler in the magazine.

Paris is in the house!

Our April issue is ready to be downloaded. Here’s a screenshot of the cover but you have to see the animated version in the magazine.

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Paris. Coming Soon.

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We’re putting the finishing touches on our April issue which includes a whole lot of coverage of Paris. Till then, we thought we’d show you this treasure we uncovered at Le Musée-Jardin Paul Landowski. Enjoy.

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Ed on the Radio: Le Gai Paris

Ed in Paris at a book seller's stand along the Seine, Notre Dame in the background

I recently spoke about Pairs on Proud FM radio . Here’s my report.

Ed Salvato – Paris

PARIS NIGHTLIFE GETS A LITTLE SPYCE

Visiting Paris in July or August is a love-it or hate-it experience. Either you completely dig the fact that most Parisians have “foutu le camp,” or you prefer to wait till September for “la grande rentrée” when the weather is still fine but school’s started up again and la belle France is back at work. Some of us fall into both camps. In July and August, it’s much easier to get reservations at restaurants. First-run movies are not usually sold out. And the subway is just a little easier to get through. Whenever you visit, there’s a fun little knot of gay bars to tour that are popular with visitors and locals (who like visitors) at the intersection of rue des Archives and rue Sainte-Croix de la Brettonerie in the super gay-pouplar Marais section in Paris’ 4eme arrondissement.The usual suspects are the Open-Cafe at the intersection with its outdoor tables (and decent restaurant) andLe Cox Bar a few doors further south at 15, rue des Archives which attracts a more mature bear- and leather-friendly crowd. Add to this tasty mix, the new Spyce Bar at 23, rue Sainte-Croix de la Brettonerie. It’s a bar/club which is quite small but packed particularly on weekends. The crowd hasn’t seemed to sort itself out yet, but expect to find a mix of men and women (many straight women). The music is high energy.

Mona Lisa: The Case of the Missing Masterpiece

By Dennis Hensley

One of the most surprising factoids that I learned when I toured the Louvre Museum in Paris a few years back is that Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa had been stolen back in 1911. As heists go, that’s quite a prestigious booty but then what do you do with it once you’ve nabbed it? It’s not like you can display it in your hoMe…unless you tell visitors it’s a fake and where’s the fun in that?

Maybe you could sell it to some egomaniacal super-villain to hang in his lair but anyone else you approach would probably report you, which is exactly what happened to the real thief, a Louvre employee named Vincenzo Perrugia, when he tried to return the painting to Italy and sell it to a gallery in Florence.

The theft of the Mona Lisa plays a role in two separate events at this month’s Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, a three-week smorgasbord of everything cool, cultural and retro-French (the event’s theme is Paris 1910-20.) On April 9 at 11:00 AM in the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater, Astral Artists will present the family-friendly multimedia show Who Stole the Mona Lisa? featuring musicians, storytellers and an animation set to Stravinsky’s Firebird.

Meanwhile, across town, the prestigious Arden Theater is presenting a new play created especially for the festival called Wanamaker’s Pursuit. Set in 1911, the year the Mona Lisa was stolen, the play tells the story of an American department store owner’s son who travels to Paris to buy dresses and has his horizons broadened by Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and designer Paul Poiret. The show runs through May 22. Learn more about both events at http://www.pifa.org (Supported by PIFA). Follow FIFA at http://www.twitter.com/PIFAPhilly

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