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Paris rat-catchers tackle rodents. Officials in Paris have launched a citywide campaign to eliminate the 8 million rats living below the City of Lights' surface. Ew, nothing cool or cute about that (except maybe a BBC photo editor's choice of putting a Ratatouille still as the article's accompanying image).

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Saint-Germain's Sweetest Spots

Every so often a book is published that makes you ask yourself: how much weight did the author put on researching it? Jamie Cahill, author of the recently published Pâtisseries of Paris, has compiled the city's best pastry shops, bakeries, ice cream shops, chocolatiers, and salons de thé. Many of them happen to be concentrated in Saint-Germain, which has a sort of cruel irony to it, as this former intellectual nerve center of Paris has undergone a transformation in the last 10 years to become the center of a very expensive, very chic fashion scene, putting the Rive Gauche in YSL. But it's time you learned the sublime tension of consuming millefeuilles while not gaining mille poids. Cahill's publicist, by the way, reassures us that even after four years of this research, plus a professional pâtissier's course, plus two children, Cahill has managed to stay a size 2. "But that's another story," we are told. So, Jamie? What's the story? We'd love to know. More »

12:55 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Lauren Elkin
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Top Picks: Paris Cafes with Free Wi-Fi

As we mentioned last summer, Paris provides free Wi-Fi access from more than 260 public parks, gardens, and monuments. A beautiful idea, but those of us with real work to do need a table and a beer. Helping us out are a number of cafés and bistros that serve free Wi-Fi along with their liquid offerings. And profiling these joints is a nifty little website that rounds up more than 140 hotspots in Paris and plots them on an easy-to-use map. Cafés Wifi selects their monthly favorites — those cafés that provide a free, fast, and always working connection, along with pleasant working atmosphere — and reports on the price, the clientele, and the number of electrical outlets. It's a freelancer's wet dream. This very article, including the photo, was posted from #4, la Fée Verte. More »

4:53 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Meg Zimbeck
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French Sex Lessons

Springtime in Paris, blah blah blah. Despite their proclivity for swing clubs, kinky saunas, and other libertine pleasures, it turns out the citizens of the supposedly most romantic city on earth aren't all born Romeos and sex kittens. Love coaches, bondage, spanking, and sex toy lessons at the city's chicest sex shops: here's a list of useful addresses where Parisians go to keep up their reputations as the sluttiest people on the planet. More »

3:33 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Kristin Hohenadel
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Hungry for Paris "Le Grand Véfour. Maxim's. La Table de Joël Robuchon. None of these venerated restaurants are on Alexander Lobrano's list of the 102 best in Paris. And that's one of the reasons I love his new paperback Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants. Lobrano, the European correspondent for Gourmet magazine, has lived here and written about food for 22 years, so he's qualified to call those behemoths overrated. Which establishments do hit the mark?"

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Paris Concerts a la Carte: Summer Bonus Edition

Between now and mid-July, there are more than 40 great indie pop/rock concerts coming to town. That's good news for music lovers who are living or traveling in Paris this summer. To help you map out your evenings (and buy tickets in advance) we've tagged the 40 best shows on this Google calendar. After the jump, we present videos for our favorite 25, and name the Top Ten concerts of the summer. (photo) More »

11:19 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Meg Zimbeck
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Eat This NYC: Paris Still Has the World's Best Restaurants

There's a reason why New Yorkers are still spending their sad little dollars in Paris: the food here is better. Backing us up on that one is Restaurant Magazine, with their just-released update of the World's 50 Best Restaurants. The City of (Culinary De)Light captured more of the 2008 top spots (8) than any other town. As for NYC: only five of their restaurants made the cut, and four feature imported French chefs. While nay-sayers have long decried France as losing its culinary edge, les trois couleurs took home more rankings (11) than any other country, including Spain (7) and the UK (6). The World's 50 Best list was formulated by a jury of 651 well-respected food professionals. Restaurant's selection of Paris addresses, with accompanying description from the magazine, is waiting after the jump. More »

11:00 AM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Meg Zimbeck
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Snogging in Paris

Popular legend has it that the couple in the famous Robert Doisneau photograph (you know, the one everyone had up in their dorm rooms in college) didn't' even know each other. He's just back from the war and they're really glad the Allies won. That's the story, anyway, but it's not true. (It was actually taken in 1950, when the two were lovers.) But that doesn't mean Paris isn't a really great place for kissing someone you just met. If you don't have a regular snogging partner, that doesn't mean you should go un-snogged! Not when there are plenty of single (and not-so-single) dragueurs out there in the thick Parisian night just waiting to make out with a stranger in a bar. Why shouldn't it be you? More »

2:43 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Lauren Elkin
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Latest by Lauren Elkin: that would be "patience." d'oh! more »

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Clotilde Dusoulier's Montmartre Favorites


Clotilde Dusoulier from Chocolate & Zucchini has developed an enthusiastic following in the five years since she started her Paris-based food blog about her adventures in the kitchen. Her first cookbook, Chocolate & Zucchini, was published last year. And out this week is Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris, a very personal guide to restaurants, markets, food and wine stores, as well as tips on how to understand the Parisian shopkeeper or waiter. Clotilde shared with us some of her favorite places to go when she's not in the mood to cook. All in Montmartre, they include four spots from the book and two additional neighborhood watering holes she selected just for Gridskipper.

4:25 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Kristin Hohenadel
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All-Natural Beauty in Paris

France is the largest cosmetics-producing country in the world. The market for organic cosmetics is estimated at around €150 million, and just about everybody is trying to get in on the action. You can find organic and all-natural cosmetics from around the world scattered all over town. We've told you where to go for organic salon treatments, but for all your at-home beauty needs, why not make it easy on yourself and check out the following list of top addresses for beauty buys that are 100% naturel.

12:10 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Kristin Hohenadel
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