By Drew Grant 7/27/12 11:02am

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Madonna's decorations land her in trouble in le Paris (YouTube)

Madonna in Paris: Swastikas, Sluts, and the Making of a Fuhrer (Video)

Yesterday evening we all tuned in to watch the livestreamed concert of Madonna in Paris. And though we knew what to expect–nudity and swastikas have been part of Madge’s MDNA world tour since the beginning–she had already managed to rub the people of France the wrong way when she put up the Nazi symbol on the face of the new French party leader, Marine Le Pen. On Bastille Day, no less!

The leader of the far-right party has already threatened to sue the pop sensation, which she probably assumed would only help sell tickets.

The plan worked, sort of: turning her “small engagement” at the Olympia Club last night into a mob scene. Read More

By Staff 3/30/07 2:42pm

Mon Dieu! Americans Behind Europe Record-Breaker

Wowza! Apparently they buy buildings in Paris too.

Naturally, it’s a bunch of burly American I-bankers who made the biggest single-asset deal in European history.

Lehman Brothers has purchased Coeur Defense, a series of five buildings, from Goldman Sachs for 2.11 billion euros, or $2.8 billion U.S. dollars. It’s a record for the overseas bunch. Read More

By Moira Hodgson 3/26/07 12:00am

Cucina de Balthazar

As he did with Balthazar, Keith McNally has once again set a stage where the play is about eating and the actors are the diners. This time it’s not a Paris bistro, but a rustic trattoria somewhere in the hills of Italy. Morandi’s low, beamed ceiling is hung with wooden chandeliers topped with small brown Read More

By Staff, Staff 3/05/07 12:00am

The Transom

Going Dutch: Basic Instinct Director Plumbs His Homeland’s Past

“We didn’t sleep one hour—not one hour,” said German actor Sebastian Koch, describing the Oscar-night fêting of his last film, The Lives of Others, a surprise win for Best Foreign-Language Film this year. “We had an invitation at the Governor’s Ball. And then, after, the Germans Read More

By Staff 1/31/07 4:56pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday

  • In the ongoing quest to find the city’s scariest bar, the NY Press heads to the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, where ice-less $3 cocktails and Tupperware Cheez Doodles are a reminder of what Brooklyn was like before Hollywood came. [NYP]
  • Who knew Canadian real estate had become so exceedingly ritzy? In Ontario, Read More