The Local4d
'Charming but ungovernable' - What does it really mean to be French?
As the French Prime Minister attempts to launch a national discussion about French identity, The Local looks at how you define Frenchness, and whether it's even possible.
UPI10d
Famous birthdays for Feb. 2: Tom Blyth, Zosia Mamet
They include: Advertisement -- Pope Benedict XIII in 1649 -- French statesman Charles de Talleyrand in 1754 -- Writer James Joyce in 1882 -- Charles Correll, Andy of radio's "Amos and Andy ...
The Economist20d
Henri Bergson was once the world’s most famous philosopher
In his heyday—in the 15 years or so before the first world war—Bergson was the most famous man in the world, Emily Herring, a writer ... ideas it expressed. The French thinker, well-versed ...
32 Times A Famous Author Made A Cameo In A Movie
One of the most talked about 2024 movies adapted from a novel was the romantic drama It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively.
Creating Carmen: opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Silsden Town Hall
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen, by award-winning playwright Clare Norburn and ...
CNN on MSN11d
His great-grandfather was a famous artist. This craftsman is blazing his own path
Alex Matisse grew up in a family of acclaimed artists, but not until he took an after-school pottery class did he discover ...
Kennedy family tree: All about JFK’s kids, grandkids and more
JFK, the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He ...
spot9d
Is the Michelin Guide Coming to Manila? Here's What We've Heard
Printed with its signature red cover, these guide books included road maps, gas stations, and other pertinent automobile info ...
The Irish Times28d
Dublin Literary Award 2025: Seven Irish authors on longlist for €100,000 prize
Seven Irish authors have made the (very ... winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction, is the most famous of the others, which include Audition by Pip Adam, The Details by Ia Genberg ...
Democrat and Chronicle22d
The secret of the Dunkin' French cruller: All sugar and all air
The other day, I stopped at a Dunkin’ drive-through in Geneseo and ordered, among other items, a French cruller ... And snarky headline writers will have pretty much exhausted every dollars ...
LA's coolest restaurant just turned 106, and the martinis are as cold as ever
You’re sitting at Jack Nicholson’s table,” my server, dressed in a sharp red jacket, told me on a recent visit to legendary Los Angeles restaurant The Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood. According to ...
Star-News29d
Celebrities in Wilmington: 19 famous people who were born or have lived in the Port City
When it comes to famous people who are from or who have lived ... including Wilmington native Lenny Simpson, before winning the French Open singles title in 1956, the U.S. national championship ...