Cabaret venue marks restoration of red-painted windmill with 90-strong troupe performing signature can-can danceThe sails of the red-painted windmill on top of the Moulin Rouge, the most celebrated cabaret in Paris, have begun turning again, restoring…
In a city not known for exuberance, the Herzbaracke is an eccentric delight
Jewish Museum in Berlin buys painting of Weintraubs Syncopators, who played the soundtrack to the Weimar cabaretThey could play seven instruments each, critics hailed them as the best jazz combo in 1920s Berlin, and the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Jo…
The pop star introduced Attal to her โfiancรฉโ during the Olympics.
Pessimism over domestic politics and the Games themselves has been replaced by euphoria, helped by impressive early medal successWhen the French rugby sevens won gold with their national hero Antoine Dupont blasting through Fijiโs defence, and tens of …
French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Olympic Games open on Friday (26 July) after a soaking wet ceremony in which athletes were cheered by the crowd along the Seine, dancers took to the roofs of Paris and Lady Gaga sang a French cabaret song.
The torch relay ahead of the Paris Olympics reached the French capital for the first time on Sunday, with organisers hoping to build enthusiasm for the Games among the city’s sceptical residents. Moulin Rouge Dancer Allie Goodbun, who performed along …
Zoltรกn Fรกbriโs 1976 film follows military veteran Karoly in wartime Hungary as he asks fellow drinkers in a bar what they would choose: be the slave master or the slaveThe seventh seal that gave Ingmar Bergmanโs film its title is the one whose opening …
Cabaret clubโs iconic sails collapsed in April and new set is up in time for Olympic torch relay to pass by on 15 JulyParisโs Moulin Rouge cabaret club, whose landmark windmill sails fell down in April has inaugurated a new set, a week before the Olymp…
The star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, who has died aged 92, had a unique screen presence that was at once alluring and forbiddingThe superbly aquiline beauty and patrician style of Anouk Aimรฉe made her a 60s movie icon in France, Italy and e…
The cause of the sails’ collapse from the roof of the world famous cabaret club is not yet clear.
The cause of the sails’ collapse from the roof of the world famous cabaret club is not yet clear.
Blades of famous cabaret venue, home of the French can-can, fall from roof overnightThe home of the high-spirited French can-can has been laid temporarily low after the sails of the red-painted windmill on top of the Moulin Rouge, the most celebrated c…
Chris Keil on the significance of the Portuguese entry for the 1974 competition. Plus John Lovelock on Abbaโs appealAlexis Petridisโs article (Abba, cabaret and smug marionettes: the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed!, 5 April) didnโt mention the o…
As Hitlerโs forces razed Europe, Curt Bloch was writing subversive anti-Nazi zine The Underwater Cabaret. Now, all 95 issues form a new exhibition of satire and seditionAs the daughter of antiques dealers, Simone Bloch grew up in a New York house fille…
The AFP photographer Joel Saget went on stage and backstage at the Parisian cross-dressing cabaret Madame Arthur. Open since 1946, Madame Arthur is the oldest transformist cabaret in Paris. Threatened with extinction, it has undergone a renaissance sin…
