Frances Stark.
FRANCES STARK by Simon Rees FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon FRANCE September 22, 2007 * January 12, 2008 It's telling that Frances Stark's first major survey should take place in Europe instead of her hometown of Los Angeles, especially given her work's clear basis in English-language text, typography, prose,...

An international bazaar for a cause.
Byline: SHERYL G. LAUDATO The International Bazaar Foundation (IBF) continues to spread the joy of giving on its 40th year with a oneaday bazaar at the PICC Forum, Cultural Center of the Philippines complex on Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, on Sunday, Nov. 19. The IBF,...

Retailer wine selections.
The Cheers National Wine Panel recommends a lineup of top moderately prices white wines. This year, Cheers presents the selections of our wine panel organized not by varietal or region, but by price. At a time when sourcing good quality wines at value prices is increasingly difficult,...

Luxe Worldwide Hotels Offers International Travelers Promotion.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-9 June 2008-Luxe Worldwide Hotels Offers International Travelers Promotion(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Luxe Worldwide Hotels, a provider of marketing services within the hospitality industry, has announced its Guaranteed US Dollar rate promotion at select European properties. The hotel said the exclusive...

All-star chardonnays.
From big and oaky to subtle, supple and light, the broad appeal of chardonnay makes it a perennial favorite. The Cheers Wine Panel recommends chardonnays from California, Washington state, Oregon, Australia, France, Italy, South Africa, Chile and New Zealand in a range of price points. Brief tasting...

The Cheers/Beverage Dynamics National Wine Panel recommends a lineup of top quality/value CHARDONNAYS. (Wine Selections).
Since the beginning of this year, Cheers has inaugurated a joint Cheers/Beverage Dynamics National Wine Panel, a distinguished group of restaurant and hotel beverage professionals, including sommeliers, beverage directors and wine managers along with wine buyers and sellers at America's best-known retail wine stores. Grouped each month...

New paintings at Waddesdon Manor: recent acquisitions for the Rothschild collection: the collections at Waddesdon have been enhanced by the recent acquisition of four major paintings, by Callet, Chardin and Panini.
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Waddesdon is the only house complete and open to the public in which the distinctive and influential gout Rothschild of the late 19th century can still be seen intact. On a hilltop overlooking the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, it was built between 1877...

Ahmed de Bourgogne the impossible autobiography of a Clandestine.
The article deals with the problematic reconstruction of the tragic autobiography of a clandestine. The book, Ahmed de Bourgogne is born of the collaboration between the clandestine ex-convict Ahmed Beneddif and the renowned French writer and social scientist Azouz Begag, both of whom are of Algerian origin and belong...

Maria Mailat: from "the other Europe" to the new Europe.
A writer's words separate and unite the living and those who left without a word.... The writer is heimatlos.... The writer looks for himself in the faces of others, while knowing that when his song touches the black kernel of ecstasy, the ultimate breath, it will close in on...

Addressing la ville des dieux: entry ceremonies and urban audiences in seventeenth-century Dijon.
On 31 January 1629, Louis XIII made his royal entry into Dijon, the capital of Burgundy, a highly-sensitive province on France's eastern frontier. Although the city had only been given three weeks, rather than the months that were usually allowed to prepare the elaborate and expensive ceremony, Louis's entry...