Around Paris

• Metro station Concorde: learn more about the mysterious tiled letters, what text they come from, and the history of this station's appearance.
  
• Forum des Images: If there's one thing Paris does well, it's movie theaters.  This recently renewed and redesigned theater is at the heart of Les Halles, and screens old and unusual films, often revolving around a theme.  It's sort of like an exhibition gallery of movies.  Current theme: New York.
  
• More on flea markets in and around the city.
  
• Taxi services and reservation numbers.
  

• "In the lap of luxury, Paris squirms": how the economic crisis affects haute couture.
  
• Beginning April 1, 2009, all museums in Paris are free for those under 25.  Can't express how awesome this is, or how nice it would have been last semester.
  
• A view of Obama from France.
  
• "The wrong sort of silence": One blogger discusses the social challenges that come with bisous and the formality of French language.
  

• Open-air markets, their days, and their locations, organized by arrondissement.
  
• "No Reservations": private gourmet dinners hosted at one man's home in Paris, a story on NPR.
• Aux Chiens Lunatiques: "An occasional supper club in a 17th century apartment in the Latin Quarter"--more private gourmet dinners hosted by incredible chefs.
  
• Hidden Kitchen: Yet another private dinner spot.  "Our cuisine is best described as refined new American. We create original dishes that utilize French techniques while incorporating aspects of Americana and ingredients not typically found on tasting menus in France."
• Restaurant recommendations in Paris by David Lebovitz.