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Arts, Culture & Media
360 Pick: Rotary Downs Plays On
Agnès Varda and JR
Arts
Agnès Varda and JR are strange bedfellows
Amadou and Mariam
Arts
Live in studio: Amadou & Mariam (& Kurt)
The band members of Bokanté hail from four continents, and their music draws influences from Caribbean rhythms, West African music, and Mississippi Delta blues.
Culture
Bokanté serves up songs in the key of Creole
Dancer Link Berthomieux says that when French people use the English word ‘black,’ “It’s a trendy way to say ‘noir.’”
Culture
Why the English word ‘black’ became the new ‘noir’ in France
Acadieman is a French Acadian superhero (or perhaps anti-superhero) who speaks Chiac.
Culture
Purists don’t like this mix of Acadian French and English, but it may be helping the French language in Canada
Thomas Piketty, the French economist behind President Francois Hollande's plan to tax the wealthy has won acclaim in the US for his work on growing income inequality
Business, Economics and Jobs
A French economist becomes a rock star in the US for writing on the growing gap between rich and poor
Le Rencontre, a French-speaking meetup at the Franco-American Heritage Center, Lewiston, Maine.
Arts, Culture & Media
In Maine, a little French goes a long way
Gold medalist Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Canada poses with silver medalist Chloe Dufour-Lapointe. The sisters competed in the women's freestyle skiing moguls at the Sochi Winter Olympics. A Canadian TV host criticized how CBC announcers were pronouncing t
Arts, Culture & Media
During the Olympics, Canadians are willing to drop their language arguments
Julie Gayet at Deauville
Arts, Culture & Media
What the French president’s affair and separation say about love, politics and French culture
France Sees Great Potential in the Chinese Tourism Industry
France Sees Great Potential in the Chinese Tourism Industry