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Madonna and Elton John Patch up Feud in Nice Eatery
When Elton John likened Madonna to a “fairground stripper” on Australian TV, then later followed it up with more catty comments about lip-syncing her Superbowl performance, he probably didn’t count on running into the Material Girl herself last week while dining in Nice. Elton John … Continue reading
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French McDo Loses its American Marketing Edge
UPDATE: Good news, Pulp Fiction fans! Not to overestimate the reach of this web site or anything, but just weeks after this blog post appeared, McDo succumbed and is bringing back the mythic ‘Royale with Cheese’. Travolta will be so pleased. … Continue reading
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Picasso Affair: The Electrician’s Revenge
The treasure trove of Picassos came to light in 2010, when retired local electrician Pierre Le Guennec and his wife decided to pull out the box of little Picasso scribbles, paintings and notebooks that Picasso’s wife Jacqueline had given him … Continue reading
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Don’t tell the Academy: Jean Dujardin was Brice de Nice
UPDATE: Brice de Nice WON the Oscar for Best Actor! Hard to believe that in just 6 years he went from Brice… to the first Frenchman to win the Oscar… wow. Click here to see his Oscar acceptance speech. Oscar nominated … Continue reading
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Cannes Kebab Vendor Saves President Obama
It happened the day before the G-20 Summit last November, when tensions were high and Cannes was zipped up tight as a drum: barricades, badge-only entry, missile protection systems, bomb squads, sniper teams, and spy satellites. It seems that a … Continue reading
Monaco Driver Causes Million Dollar Fender Bender
…And you think you’re having a bad day! This was the scene last Friday, at Place du Casino, Monte Carlo: Only in Monaco would you find a Bentley Azure T that’s managed to plow into a Ferrari F430, damaging an Aston Martin Rapide, a … Continue reading
Port Restaurant Attacked in Crazy Football Violence
UPDATE: Check out the comments for an eye-witness account by one of the restaurant’s clients… The irony is that it wasn’t even a Nice match! Yesterday, the Corsica-Nice ferry brought over four busloads of Corsican football fans on their way to a … Continue reading
No Fig Leaf for Apollo
(UPDATED below) Banned from Place Massena in the ‘70’s for being overly well-endowed, the giant marble statue of Apollo is coming back. The fountain that currently crowns Place Massena has lived a long and twisted story: At its inauguration in … Continue reading
Spaggiari, Part 2
The Spaggiari story continues… A few months after the spectacular sewer-tunnel bank heist, a former gang member’s girlfriend ratted them out and Spaggiari was arrested. During the hearing in the Palais de Justice in Old Nice, Spaggiari was called to the judges … Continue reading
After All This Time, What’s The Worst That Could Happen? Spaggiari – Part 1
photo www.flickr.com After all this Time, What’s the Worst that Could Happen? Nice’s ‘Crime of the Century’ is in the news again, 35 years after the fact. In the ‘70’s, Albert Spaggiari masterminded a spectacular heist of the Societe Generale … Continue reading
Living it Up in Cannes
You’ve got to hand it to Pascal: for a homeless guy, he really thinks big! A deluxe 4-star Cannes hotel, just off the Croisette and closed for the off-season, became the private VIP digs for Pascal and his friends after breaking into … Continue reading
Really Bad Karma
As if the ordinary juvenile delinquents on the Cote d’Azur were not enough, during the holidays we also get the big-city kind that come here for their vacation. One such 17-year-old Parisian, here for the holidays to visit his girlfriend, decided the … Continue reading
Nice Dog Poop Almost Kills Baby
In case you missed it, a scene worthy of Benny Hill spooled out last month at the Port… Anne-Marie, with her 6-month-old grandchild Zoe in a stroller and her dog on a leash, was taking an afternoon walk by the harbor. … Continue reading