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The Little Prince Comes to Broadway

When Antoine de Saint-Exupéry written The little Prince while living in New York during World War II, he never imagined that a musical adaptation of the philosophical “children’s book” would open on Broadway about 80 years ago – and this after the hit run in Paris, Dubai, and Sydney. A unique theater for the whole family, the show includes dance, aerial acrobatics, and high-tech video mapping. Choreographer and director Anne Tournié gets her chops working on movies like the Vegas extrav...

March for the climate: young people stay mobilized – Frenchly Morning US

This Friday, March 25, several hundred thousand students will march around the world to denounce climate inaction. Your slogan? #PeopleNotProfit: People and the planet must come before profit. This will be the 188th school strike by environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who will march in Stockholm. It was from her first mobilization in front of the Swedish parliament in 2018 that she was born fridays for future (FFF), the international movement of student climate strikers. As its name ...

Paris here and there – Maison du Val, a second house better

SIf the pandemic panic in the secondary market real estate to house a 6.6% increase in transactions and a 12.1% increase in the amount (Safer, 2021), not everyone wants to spend their weekends in Running or facing leakage issues.

With this good idea in mind that the Maisons de campagne imagine their two establishments forty-five minutes from pair. The advantage of the second house without the drawback. The bowl of chlorophyll, board games, balloons, movies available, but no food,...

After UNICEF, a new humanitarian logo appeared on Barça’s shirts

FC Barcelona has reached an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees so that he can appear on the jerseys of his clubs instead of UNICEF.

Soon there will be a new “advertiser” on t-shirts like no other FC Barcelona. This Thursday, the Blaugrana club reached an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which should soon appear on the jerseys of all its players, whether women’s and men’s first teams and academies, for four seasons.

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Pret A Manger wants to force a French bakery in London to change its name

“I thought it was funny at first. But when I read the letter, it was pretty scary”Fouad Sabre says, “This is a 15-page letter asking us to change our company name, logo and provide the domain name of our website for free”. s story bread to eat Almost reminiscent of the Parisian restaurant Regiøn, Borough market under threat Legal action a year ago if he doesn’t change his name. This new David and Goliath tale pits a French bakery in southeast London against British fast-food chain Pret A Man...

From Minnesota to Algeria, in the footsteps of Camus

We would have met him in Paris, the port of the house where he would spend three months each summer and where he had a base. But it was from Connecticut, where she taught, that Alice Kaplan traced the genesis of Atlas Househis first novel, which will appear this month in the new Marseille-based publishing house, The noise of the world. “It’s a novel that’s really at home in France and in French because the whole situation speaks French,” he explains. “Right now, he has no home in the Unit...

Barachou’s Cream Puffs: A Second Address in Manhattan – Frenchly

During the pandemic, she was advised to put the key under the door, but Rebecca Tison had other ambitions. She though she admits to having been in” a thread to close your baby Barachou, the cream puff brand he founded on the Upper West Side a few months before the health crisis, he persevered. And she was right. This Thursday, March 24, she will open her second West Village address: a small 8th Avenue location with a kitchen and seating.

Barachou is above all a personal adventure. Rebecc...

Toto Wolff’s new pick against Verstappen and Red Bull

Toto Wolff, Team Director at Mercedes, joked in an interview with Bild that he would rather be alone than have to choose between Max Verstappen, Christian Horner or Helmut Marko, Red Bull strongmen.

Start new Formula 1 season relations between Mercedes and Red Bull did not warm up. After the first race in Bahrain and Charles Leclerc won with his FerrariToto Wolf, director of the German team, did not hesitate to bring down a small pike on his opponent.

In an interview published on Wednesd...

Storm of Democracy

Has American democracy really been in danger since, on January 6, 2021, Donald Trump supporters tried to cancel Joe Biden’s election? Some don’t want to believe it. Others, on the right, are abbreviated. This attack on the Capitol, which is still unclear and the idlas insurgents, reminds me of a forgotten pattern in French history. On December 2, 1851, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, elected president in 1848 under the terms of the United States-inspired constitution (with the contribution of ...

pro-Ukrainian demonstrators are trying to block Abramovich’s yacht! – winter news

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Roman Abramovich has come under fire after Russia invaded Ukraine. The oligarch who owns Chelsea has been sanctioned by the British government because of his ties to Vladimir Putin. Forced to sell the English club Roman Abramovich also sees a threat to his assets and property. Thus, the latter decided to moor his yacht in Turkey to avoid European measures.

🇹🇷🇺🇦 | A group of Ukrainian youths, members of the navigation club, tried to prevent the trip of Russia...