November 26: World No Shopping Day

Posted on 19 June 2025 Evelyne Campiche Ruegg En ce moment Sélections
We’ve now arrived at “Black November”, the name given to the penultimate month of the year to celebrate the race to find the best deals, in particular Black Friday, the last Friday in November. Since 1992, resistance to consumerism has been organized under the banner of Buy Nothing Day. This year’s event takes place on […]
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From sign to sound (6/6): Ravi Shankar, the “fifth Beatle

Posted on 19 June 2025 Federica Rusconi Castellani En ce moment Sélections
The final episode of From Sign to Sound, our journey of discovery into the world of interpretation! This time, the spotlight is on world music and one of its leading figures: Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, whose real name was Robindra Shaunkor Chowdhury, who passed away 10 years ago. A true legend of Indian […]
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From sign to sound (4/6): Barbara, a woman happy to sing

Posted on 19 June 2025 Federica Rusconi Castellani En ce moment Sélections
Discover the fourth episode in the series Du signe au son ou l’art de l’interprétation. In the spotlight is one of the singers who marked the history of French chanson: Monique Andrée Serf, known as Barbara, who passed away 25 years ago. “One day, I went to hear Edith Piaf. She was singing on the […]
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In the spotlight

Posted on 19 June 2025 Sara Eusebio Sélections
When comedy and music meet Whether in Paris at the foot of Notre Dame, or surrounded by dancing cats, or even on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, songs from musicals have been hummed into everyone’s ears. Whether we like it or not, this genre of musical theater is one of the most popular, and we can […]
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Stan Lee: from two-page comics to the Marvel Universe

Posted on 19 June 2025 Héloïse Hahling Sélections
The adventure of American comics began at the end of the 19th century, thanks to Rodolphe Töpffer, the first major author and theorist of the comic strip. At the time, they consisted of a few successive comic strips published in the press, usually on a daily basis. In principle, the story evolved over several issues […]
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From sign to sound (5/6) : Stéphane Grappelli, violinist of the soul

Posted on 19 June 2025 Federica Rusconi Castellani En ce moment Sélections
From classical music to French chanson, the Du signe au son series is now turning its attention to jazz. The art of interpretation concerns all genres of music! In the spotlight is the inventor of the jazz violin: Stéphane Grappelli, who passed away 25 years ago. Paris, the courtyards of Montmartre buildings, cinemas accompanying silent […]
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