It was the last official act of the American-owned newspaper that had been published in Paris since 1887. A party. A month ago, the Paris newsroom was all-but shuttered and most of the remaining staff was laid off at what had been known, going back 129 years, as the Paris Herald, the Paris Herald Tribune, […]

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I had been in Paris barely 10 minutes today when I had my pocket picked. Arrived from the south of the country on the fast train into Gare de Lyon, made my way downstairs to the Metro’s 1 line, got into a jammed car just as the doors were about to close … and then […]

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For many American print journalists, it was a dream job destination. For many American travelers, it was the essential daily reading while working or touring in Europe. The International Herald Tribune, based in Paris. Now, after a slow fade over the past decade, it is gone, as a Paris-based entity. The Paris newsroom of the […]

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The guy I made a point of looking for each time I looked out the window at France fans, appeared to be about 25. He was slouched in a “comfy chair” in the living room of an apartment across the street from me, here in Paris. He had a French flag wrapped around his body, […]

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It was the ultimate career fantasy for a certain fraction of American journalists. At some time in their careers they wanted to live in Paris and work for the International Herald Tribune. They had read it during their travels in Europe and it became a sort of newspaper of record for their vacations, fondly remembered […]

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The mobile ride request company Uber has changed the face of transportation in many cities and perhaps none as radically as Paris. For decades, Paris’s taxi system, and its drivers, had no competition. Uber changed all that, for the better, in the opinion of thousands of Uber customers, and the old guard doesn’t like it […]

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  We drove over to Saint Tropez today because it seemed like the thing to do. Of the towns in this bay, on the Cote d’Azur, Saint Tropez is by far the best-known, internationally. What we found was underwhelming, even considering this is the depth of winter — when celebrities are least likely to be […]

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After six years on the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean, I can safely identify two additions to Sports Competitions I Follow. The English Premier League … which is a subdivision of the ultra elite European Champions League. This is where the world’s most famous sports teams come to play because, really, we must concede […]

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On November 13, it was Paris. Today it was San Bernardino, California. The past few years, I have spent more time in Paris — where 129 were killed in terror attacks on November 13 — than in California. And we had stayed, the week before, in Paris, on the very street where people were killed […]

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I had almost forgotten about this. Not like “I don’t remember” but in the sense of it “had been so long, I hadn’t thought about it in years”. The self-styled Symbionese Liberation Army and its shootout with Los Angeles police in 1974. But it came back to me, today, while watching, off and on, the […]

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