Category Archives: Life Imitates Comedy

Illegal Wine and Forbidden Cheese

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Allison Coe

This Thursday, being the third Thursday in November, is the official release date and festivities for this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau: it’s the first taste of this year’s grape harvest, before the rest of the 2025 vintage is put away to … Continue reading →

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Monaco Makes the News (…but not in a good way!)

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Allison Coe

Well this is awkward… Apparently, Monaco’s longtime Palace CFO may have been involved in some shady stuff, and when he was unceremoniously canned, he decided to spill the tea in the splashiest way possible, handing 20 years of hand-written notebooks … Continue reading →

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The Picasso Affair: How it Ended

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Allison Coe

UPDATE on the Picasso Affair:  Guilty!  The Le Guennecs must not only forfeit the €50 million worth of original Picassos to the Fondation Picasso, and each get a two year (suspended) prison sentence, but they also each have to pay punitive damages of… 1€. … Continue reading →

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The Picasso Affair: Is he Guilty?

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Allison Coe

The judgement on the most curious Picasso Affair is due this week… here’s the story of €50 million worth of previously unknown Picassos that sat for years in a cardboard box in the garage. A treasure trove of Picassos came to light … Continue reading →

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Fox News reports Muslim-Only No-Go Zones all over France LOL

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Allison Coe

Last week, if you watched American ‘news’ channel Fox News, you might be forgiven for thinking that the Nice neighborhoods of Saint Augustin, Trachel, Pasteur, Bon Voyage, Saint-André and the Ariane were official No-Go Zones: off-limits to non-Muslims, void of police, and ruled by … Continue reading →

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