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Macklemore performs at the University of San Francisco on February 8, 2013. The Seattle rapper, in a pink fur coat over a Vancouver Grizzlies jersey, holds the microphone at arm’s length. Credit: San Francisco Foghorn (Amanda Rhoades) / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

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From the MetLife mic to Robert Kraft’s veto : how Macklemore lost his opening slot on Ed Sheeran’s US tour

2026-09-15

In front of the Drouant restaurant in Place Gaillon in Paris, photographers and onlookers wait for the announcement of the Prix Goncourt on November 3, 2016. It is on this sidewalk that the Académie announces its winner every fall, after three rounds of selection. Credits: ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Freed from Iran’s Evin prison, Olivier Grondeau sees his memoir judged by 600 inmates across French jails

2026-09-15

Under the tricolor flags, Jean-Marie Le Pen, at center, greets the crowd at the National Front march on May 1, 2012 in Paris. At right, his daughter Marine Le Pen, party president since January 2011, joins him on the platform. Credits: Blandine Le Cain / Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

Society

The paradox of Marine Le Pen’s party defending a 10% tax break that mostly helps France’s wealthier retirees

2026-09-15

Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the press room at the 66th Emmy Awards ceremony at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on September 22, 2014. The actress is among the references used to compare Jean Smart in the 2026 rankings. Credits: Mingle Media TV (Red Carpet Report) / Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, image cropped and enlarged.

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How Widow’s Bay collected 14 Emmys across two separate 2026 ceremonies, and what The Pitt salvaged from it

2026-09-15

Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, winners for ‘No Other Land’ at the 2024 Berlinale. Credits: Martin Kraft (photo.martinkraft.com), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Venice Film Festival 2026: Israel Wants to Strip the ‘Naza’ Documentary Filmmakers of Their Citizenship

2026-09-14

Manga and comic books for sale at a flea market stall. Secondhand volumes, annotated with marker, sit alongside series still in shrink wrap. It was through these stalls that manga spread across Europe before entering the catalogs of major Franco-Belgian publishers. Credits: MichaelGaida / Pixabay via needpix.com.

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Yves Schlirf, the bookseller turned editor who took manga to Dargaud and revived Blake and Mortimer, has died

2026-09-14

Emmanuel Macron is about to speak during the 75th anniversary ceremony of D-Day at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer on June 6, 2019. Credits: Sgt. Henry Villarama / U.S. Army Europe and Africa (DVIDS).

Society

What France’s top court struck down in the under-15 social media ban, and what the Brussels rewrite changes

2026-09-14

Tupac Shakur’s wax figure, with a bandana tied across his forehead and chains around his neck, at Madame Tussauds in New York in February 2010. Thirty years after his death, the rapper belongs as much to museum collections as he does to music history. Credits: John Seb Barber / Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

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Thirty years after Tupac Shakur died, Duane Davis’s verdict stood in for the tribute his estate never held

2026-09-14

Elon Musk presents Starship’s future capabilities to officials from NORAD, U.S. Northern Command, and Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs on April 15, 2019. The head of SpaceX and Tesla was then received by the U.S. space command, before his political commitment alongside Donald Trump. Credits: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) / U.S. Department of Defense.

Culture

Before its October 16 release, Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary draws a defamation threat from Alex Spiro

2026-09-11

Feature Stories: Investigative Reports, Interviews, and Exclusive Features

Culture

Inside Japan Expo 2026 near Paris : Yoshiki in concert, huge cosplay, Ankama turning 25 and a heatwave backlash

2026-07-19

Society

Interview with Frédéric Timbert : the measured weight of Made in France, between workshop craft and industry

2026-07-13

Society

Cyber Saclay-Team, the Paris-Saclay student initiative linking cyber, AI and sovereignty with Sam Borhani

2026-07-13

Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe met only once, at the 1956 Royal Command Film Performance in London, where they were both presented to Queen Elizabeth II; no photographer captured them together. AI-assisted reconstruction by Ecostylia Media. Credits: Ecostylia Media; open-license or public-domain sources: Studio Harcourt and Photoplay.

Society

America turns 250: from Liberty’s torch to the sands of Normandy, France still watches over its old ally

2026-07-04

Victim of a stroke in 2004 that left her hemiplegic, Catherine Breillat never gave up on filmmaking. Despite physical fragility and industry obstacles, she continued her work with the same rigor. Proof that an artistic body of work can survive life's accidents and sometimes draw strength from them. Credits: Montage Ecostylia Media (DALL·E) — photo Ecostylia Media (Cinémathèque française, 2023); background: Jeliotb / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Montage distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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French filmmaker Catherine Breillat revisits the ‘Romance’ controversy through documents and chronology

2026-06-05

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Marilyn Monroe at 100: the Cinémathèque revisits her films, her acting gifts and her drive to break free

2026-06-01

Culture

Interview with Chloe Dumoulin : from Schubert to Rachmaninoff, via Liszt, a living piano

2026-05-09

At the Maison de l’Amérique latine, Enriqueta Sugasti and Maria Rosa Kemlin appear in the hall before a Raíces Argentinas France benefit concert. The image reflects the spirit of this Franco-Argentine association: making Argentine culture a path to solidarity. In Paris, their commitment connects the cultural stage to support for Argentina’s most vulnerable populations. ©️ 2026 Raíces Argentinas France

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Between Montreal and Paris, Enriqueta Sugasti and Maria Rosa Kemlin help forgotten children in Argentina

2026-04-18

On this stage image, Laufey appears as she has established herself in recent years, embracing the heritage of standards while asserting a very contemporary presence. This dual identity clarifies her approach to ‘Blue in Green’, conceived less as a nostalgic gesture than as a new circulation of Miles Davis within the cultural practices of a platform-native generation.

How Laufey uses Blue in Green to bring Miles Davis back to a streaming generation

2026-04-01

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